🕒 Los Angeles to Sydney time

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Sydney is 19 hours ahead of Los Angeles
Los Angeles on 2026-11-0612:00 (GMT−8)
Sydney at that instant07:00 the next day (GMT+11)
Difference on this date19 hours (2026-11-01 to 2026-12-31)
2026-01-01 to 2026-03-0719 hours
2026-03-08 to 2026-04-0418 hours
2026-04-05 to 2026-10-0317 hours
2026-10-04 to 2026-10-3118 hours
2026-11-01 to 2026-12-3119 hours
Next clock change, Los AngelesSunday 14 March 2027 at 10:00 UTC
Next clock change, SydneySaturday 3 April 2027 at 16:00 UTC
09:00 in Los Angeles is04:00 in Sydney
12:00 in Los Angeles is07:00 in Sydney
18:00 in Los Angeles is13:00 in Sydney
Shared 09:00–17:00 working window14:00–17:00 in Los Angeles, 09:00–12:00 in Sydney

Computed from the IANA zones America/Los_Angeles and Australia/Sydney by this device’s own time-zone database, so nothing is fetched and nothing is sent. A database older than the last rule change gives the old answer; governments do move these dates at short notice.

ℹ️ What this tool does & how it works

On 2026-11-06 the two clocks are apart by 19 hours, with Sydney ahead. Los Angeles runs on GMT−8 and Sydney on GMT+11. Across 2026 the difference runs: 2026-01-01 → 2026-03-07: 19 hours; 2026-03-08 → 2026-04-04: 18 hours; 2026-04-05 → 2026-10-03: 17 hours; 2026-10-04 → 2026-10-31: 18 hours; 2026-11-01 → 2026-12-31: 19 hours. Pick any date and time below and the page reworks the whole table from your own device.

Why the gap between Los Angeles and Sydney changes during 2026

Two places drift apart and come back again whenever one of them changes its clocks and the other does not — which is the situation between a place that observes daylight saving and one that does not, or between two that pick different Sundays for it. In 2026 the difference between Los Angeles and Sydney runs: 2026-01-01 → 2026-03-07: 19 hours; 2026-03-08 → 2026-04-04: 18 hours; 2026-04-05 → 2026-10-03: 17 hours; 2026-10-04 → 2026-10-31: 18 hours; 2026-11-01 → 2026-12-31: 19 hours. A meeting arranged in the middle of one of those runs is safe; one arranged across a boundary is the classic four-hours-late call, so the table names the boundaries instead of leaving you to remember them.

The clock changes, and who decides them

Los Angeles uses the zone America/Los_Angeles, and its next change after 2026-11-06 is Sunday 14 March 2027 at 10:00 UTC. Sydney uses the zone Australia/Sydney, and its next change after 2026-11-06 is Saturday 3 April 2027 at 16:00 UTC. Neither figure is a physical fact: an offset is legislation, and the same fifteen degrees of longitude can sit under three zones because a border runs through it. That is why this page reads its offsets out of the time-zone database built into your own browser instead of hardcoding a table of abbreviations — it is the database your operating system already keeps current, and it is what puts Los Angeles and Sydney in the right relation even when a government moves a date at short notice. A device whose database predates the last change gets the old answer, which is the one caveat worth knowing.

What it is actually like to work across the two

Both places are inside their own 09:00–17:00 on 3 hours of the day: 14:00–17:00 in Los Angeles, 09:00–12:00 in Sydney — outside those hours somebody is starting early, finishing late or taking the call at midnight. The two clock rules here are not unique to these two places: 12 other cities in our dataset keep the same clock as one of them, including San Francisco, Seattle, Las Vegas, Vancouver, Portland, so looking any of those up against the city on the other side of the pair gives this page’s answers. The arithmetic is the three lines the page runs in front of you: read each zone’s offset for the date you picked, subtract, and let the modulo handle the dateline.

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