What's the best time to call #Australia from the #UK? Between 8am and 11am GMT – that's between 5pm and 8pm in Sydney, Australia. Between 9pm and 1am GMT – which is between 6am and 9am the next day in Sydney.
London – Sydney: 9 hours time difference
At the end of April, winter time has started in Sydney but in London it is still summer time, until October.
Dial code: 0061
To call someone in Australia using our standard rates, dial 00 followed by the country's dialing code.
To make free calls to Australia, simply dial 0870 49 49 747 + 00 + country code + Australia number. Anyone with an inclusive calls plan where 0870 numbers are included can benefit from using this free calls to Australia from UK service. See below for a list of call providers with inclusive 0870 call plans.
Dial “00” on the phone first.
Dial the UK's international calling code into your phone, which is 00. This will signal that the phone number you are about to dial is out of the country. If you're calling from a mobile phone, you may need to press the “+” sign on the keypad before or instead of “00.”
By cross referencing “Brisbane” and “During Summer UK” you can see that the time difference is plus nine hours.
London is 5 hours ahead of New York. Press any time in the table below to open and share the event time page.
Dial the international access code, Australia's country code of 61, the area code minus the leading zero, then the remainder of the number. Dial the international access code, Australia's country code of 61, then the full number minus the leading zero. These numbers are often not accessible from overseas.
The Australian country code is 61.
From July 2018, Home and Away was shown on Viacom's Paramount Network, a channel operated in the UK by Channel 5. As of June 2021, the UK are six weeks behind Australian transmission, with a new episode airing at 6:30pm on 5Star, before being repeated on Channel 5 the next day.
New Zealand is 12 hours ahead of GMT. However, daylight saving is in place in New Zealand. In January, February and March the time difference between New Zealand and the UK is 13 hours. In April the time difference is 12 hours.
The difference is because of time zones. If you shine a flashlight at a globe you will see that only part of the globe is receiving light while the other side is in darkness. Similarly, as the Earth rotates, different parts of the planet receive sunlight or darkness, giving us day or night.
The islands of Samoa, Tokelau and Tonga are 13 hours ahead of London, while the Line Island are a full 14 hours ahead.
Kiribati – pronounced Kiribas – is the only nation on Earth to permanently trespass into GMT+14: the earliest time zone in the world. You can think of Kiribati as the eternal land of tomorrow: if it's Sunday where you are, it's probably Monday in Kiribati.
The Australian government allows writing the time using either the 24-hour clock (09:29), which is commonplace in technical fields such as military, aviation, computing, navigation, transportation and the sciences; or the 12-hour clock (9:29 am). The before noon/after noon qualifier is usually written as "am" or "pm".
The call will come out of your monthly minute allowance just like any other domestic call or, if you have a plan with unlimited UK calls, it will be free. However, the person picking up the call will likely face roaming charges for using their UK device overseas, regardless of where the call originated from.
011 – all countries and territories in the North American Numbering Plan: American Samoa. Anguilla. Antigua and Barbuda.