PKT to AEST

About Pakistan Standard Time

Pakistan is a fixed UTC+5. Two short daylight-saving experiments in 2002 and 2008–09 were abandoned, so nothing shifts now.

Cities on this clock: Tashkent, Almaty, Karachi, Lahore.

Watch out: Pakistan Standard Time is abbreviated PST locally, which is the same abbreviation as US Pacific Standard Time — thirteen hours away.

About Australian Eastern Time

Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra run at UTC+10 as AEST and UTC+11 as AEDT, changing on the first Sunday in October and the first Sunday in April. Queensland does not change at all, so Brisbane matches Sydney for about half the year and sits an hour behind it for the rest — on the same "Eastern" label.

Cities on this clock: Sydney, Melbourne.

How the difference is worked out

The gap between Pakistan Standard Time and Australian Eastern Time is not one number. The two zones change their clocks on different dates, so for part of the year the difference is 6 hours and for the rest it is something else — the table above lists each stretch of 2026 with the date it starts and which country's clocks moved.

With both zones on their own standard time — daylight saving not in force anywhere — Australian Eastern Time is 5 hours ahead of Pakistan Standard Time. That figure never changes; everything else on this page follows from it plus whichever clocks have moved.

Every figure here comes from the IANA time zone database via your browser's own Intl engine, using the zone ids Asia/Karachi and Australia/Sydney. Nothing is looked up on a server and nothing about your visit is recorded.