Thursday · October · 1 · 2026
“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
— Edmund Burke
Sun & daylight
The sun rises at 05:34 and sets at 17:58 in Sydney today, giving 12h 23m of daylight. Solar noon is at 11:46.
05:34
Sunrise
11:46
Noon
17:58
Sunset
Midnight
23:46
Sunrise
05:34
Solar noon
11:46
Sunset
17:58
Solar midnight
23:46
Daylight
12h 23m
Daylight runs about 9h 53m around the June solstice and 14h 24m around the December solstice.
Daylight saving time
Sydney observes daylight saving time. In 2026, clocks move back to UTC+10 on April 5 and move forward to UTC+11 on October 4. Sydney is currently on standard time.
Apr 5
Back · UTC+10
Oct 4
Forward · UTC+11
Oct 1
Today
The shaded band marks the daylight saving period.
Public holidays
Australia has no public holidays in October 2026.
Architecture
Sydney builds against water and sandstone, and the skyline is small enough that one roofline changes it. The city argues about each addition in public, usually for years.
Completed 2024
Renzo Piano
Three residential towers at the north end of Barangaroo. Renzo Piano set them in a line and gave each a structure of white blade fins, so the facades read as vertical louvres rather than as continuous glass. The towers step down toward the water, and the tallest turns a curved corner to the bridge. It is the residential half of a precinct that had been built entirely as offices.
Completed 2022
SANAA
An extension to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, set down the slope from the original building. SANAA broke the brief into low pavilions that step toward the harbour, so the addition never presents a single mass against the old sandstone. Glass and thin white steel keep the edges as light as the structure allows. The lowest room is a wartime fuel tank left in raw concrete.
Completed 2022
3XN
An office tower at Circular Quay built out of the tower that already stood there. 3XN kept most of the 1976 structure, including its core, then added floors and a new skin rather than clearing the site. The volume is split into shifted blocks that turn toward the harbour as they rise. Reusing a tower instead of replacing it is the whole argument of the building.
Completed 2014
Jean Nouvel
A pair of residential blocks on a former brewery site in Chippendale. Jean Nouvel hung planted panels across both facades, so soil and irrigation are carried as part of the elevation rather than added to it. A cantilevered heliostat above the lower tower reflects daylight down into the garden the blocks share. It treats greenery as cladding instead of as landscape at the base.
Completed 1973
Jørn Utzon
A performing arts building on a promontory in the harbour. Jørn Utzon solved the roof by cutting every shell from the surface of a single sphere, so a set of different curves could be built from repeated precast segments. The podium is a solid platform and the shells sit on it as a separate order. He resigned before the interiors were built, which is why the outside and the inside argue with each other.