Live clocks for Los Angeles and Sydney, the exact difference as it stands today, a converter preset to this pair, and the full 24-hour comparison table — daylight saving handled on both sides.
Converting from Los Angeles time
The full day in Los Angeles on today, with the matching time in Sydney:
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Both clocks above are read live from the IANA time-zone database built into your browser — the same rule set your phone uses. “Difference today” is not a fixed fact about this pair of cities: it is computed from the two zones’ offsets right now, which is why it can legitimately read differently if you open this page in a different month.
The difference between Los Angeles and Sydney swings with the seasons: in January Sydney is 19 hours ahead of Los Angeles, and in July it is 17 hours ahead. The two cities change their clocks on different dates — and one of them is in the southern hemisphere, where daylight saving runs through the northern winter.
The 24-hour table walks the whole of today in Los Angeles, hour by hour, and prints the matching moment in Sydney — including the rows where Sydney is still on yesterday, or already on tomorrow, which are marked +1 day or −1 day. Those edge rows are exactly the ones people get wrong doing the maths in their head.
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Free — try itThe difference between Los Angeles and Sydney swings with the seasons: in January Sydney is 19 hours ahead of Los Angeles, and in July it is 17 hours ahead. The two cities change their clocks on different dates — and one of them is in the southern hemisphere, where daylight saving runs through the northern winter.
4:00 AM — that is 9:00 AM in Los Angeles converted on a January day, when Los Angeles is at UTC−8 and Sydney is at UTC+11. Check it any time with the converter above: the answer is worked out from the two zones’ offsets on the date you pick, so it stays right when the clocks change.
Yes — the difference changes during the year, on the clock-change dates. The difference between Los Angeles and Sydney swings with the seasons: in January Sydney is 19 hours ahead of Los Angeles, and in July it is 17 hours ahead. The two cities change their clocks on different dates — and one of them is in the southern hemisphere, where daylight saving runs through the northern winter.
The two working days overlap only briefly: 4:00 PM–5:00 PM in Los Angeles (9:00 AM–10:00 AM in Sydney) is the only stretch inside both cities’ 9-to-5. Outside it, someone is starting early or finishing late.
From timestamps and the IANA time-zone database inside your browser — the live rules for each zone, including daylight-saving start and end dates and southern-hemisphere seasons where relevant. Nothing is hard-coded: open this page on a clock-change day and the clocks, the difference and the 24-hour table all follow the new offsets automatically.
Two offsets and one subtraction — the same method the converter at the top of this page runs:
Take 9:00 AM in Los Angeles, on a January day, when Los Angeles is at UTC−8 and Sydney is at UTC+11. Adding the pair’s difference for that date gives 4:00 AM in Sydney. The subtlety is that the difference itself is date-dependent for this pair: repeat the same conversion in a month when one city has changed its clocks and the answer can move by an hour. That is why this page never prints a single fixed “the difference is X” without the word today next to it.
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