New York to Sydney meeting time — find the best time to meet across ET & AEST.
New York–Sydney is the East Coast's version of the antipodean problem: Sydney runs fourteen to sixteen hours ahead, so the Australian workday happens while New York sleeps. Finance, tech, and media teams on this route treat one evening-for-morning bridge as sacred and do everything else asynchronously.
Plan across US time zones
New York, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles — keep only the ones you need
Type a name in any row to label a participant — it shows in the share link & export summaries.
Meeting time (your home zone) — shaded bars show each participant's work hours
Hour by hour
New York → Sydney: workday conversion at a glance.
Times below follow current daylight-saving rules and are refreshed every deploy. The live planner above recalculates for any date you pick.
| New York (ET) | Sydney (AEST) | Both working? |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 AM | 12:00 AM+1d | — |
| 9:00 AM | 1:00 AM+1d | — |
| 10:00 AM | 2:00 AM+1d | — |
| 11:00 AM | 3:00 AM+1d | — |
| 12:00 PM | 4:00 AM+1d | — |
| 1:00 PM | 5:00 AM+1d | — |
| 2:00 PM | 6:00 AM+1d | — |
| 3:00 PM | 7:00 AM+1d | — |
| 4:00 PM | 8:00 AM+1d | — |
| 5:00 PM | 9:00 AM+1d | — |
| 6:00 PM | 10:00 AM+1d | — |
Scheduling tips for New York ↔ Sydney
- The least-bad bridge is roughly 5:00–6:30 PM ET, catching Sydney at 8:00–9:30 AM the next day (exact hours shift with both regions' DST).
- Northern and southern daylight saving run in opposite seasons, so the gap cycles through several values a year — always verify before a recurring series.
- Rotate quarterly: one cycle New York takes the evening, next cycle Sydney takes an early start. Nobody should carry this route alone.
Bridging an impossible gap
With strict 9-to-5 hours these two cities share nothing. Extend New York's row into the evening (to about 6:30 PM) and start Sydney at 8:00 AM in the planner above: the 5:00–6:30 PM ET ↔ next-morning Sydney bridge appears — the standard US-East-Coast↔Australia handover.
Plan it live — free, no sign-up
The interactive planner above is the full meeting planner for time zones loaded with just these two cities. Drag either row's handles to match real schedules, drag the cyan meeting line to test any exact moment, then export a calendar invite or shareable link. Need a third city, or a completely different pairing? Open theinternational meeting planner or browse all routes on the meeting time converter.
New York – Sydney FAQ
What time is 9 AM EST in Sydney?
9:00 AM EST is roughly 1:00 AM AEDT the next day in the Australian summer, or around midnight AEST in winter — the middle of the Sydney night either way.
When can New York and Sydney realistically meet?
New York late afternoon into early evening (about 5:00–6:30 PM ET) catches Sydney's next-morning standup window (about 8:00–9:30 AM). That bridge is effectively the only shared working time.
Why does the gap keep changing?
The US and Australia observe daylight saving in opposite hemispheres on different dates, so the offset cycles between roughly fourteen and sixteen hours across the year. The live planner recalculates for any exact date.
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