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For Rock groyne south of Point Ormond to the rock groyne in front of Elwood Angling Club only. 1 other stretch has different rules.
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Updated 27 October 2026
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Sunday 1 November 2026 is when many Victorian summer dog-beach rules begin. Frankston’s ban starts 1 December. Hobsons Bay’s restricted hours run to 30 April.
The coloured status takes the current moment and converts it into the beach’s time zone. Melbourne, Sydney and Hobart use daylight saving. Adelaide’s daylight saving offset is UTC+10:30, and its standard time is UTC+9:30. Brisbane, Perth and Darwin do not change their clocks. Where a council rule says sunrise or sunset, those times are calculated for the pin and can be a minute or two off the sign.
Public holidays are only applied where the council says so. Barwon Coast’s peak times also cover the Easter weekend, including 29 February in a leap year. The map does not list the days, so this tool uses Good Friday to Easter Monday and says so on that page. Horderns Beach uses the NSW public holidays in the Public Holidays Act 2010, plus the extra Anzac Mondays on the NSW Government list for 2026 and 2027. The August bank holiday is not included. From January 2028, Horderns says check with council from September to April until that list is published again. A council that is silent about holidays is followed seven days a week.
If a page says check with council, the published wording was not complete enough for a yes or no. That is deliberate. The sources page lists every beach, the page it was read from, and the date it was checked.
It depends on the beach and the time. This page lists dog beaches for Melbourne, Geelong, the Surf Coast, Sydney, Brisbane and south-east Queensland, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart and Darwin. Open a beach to read the council rule. A status is then worked out in your browser from today’s date and the beach’s time zone.
Sunday 1 November 2026 is the start date published by Port Phillip, Bayside, Kingston and Hobsons Bay. Frankston’s dog ban on the sand starts later, on 1 December, and runs to 31 March. Hobsons Bay’s restricted hours run from 1 November to 30 April. Mornington Peninsula bay beaches are not given a clock time here, because the Shire’s map does not publish one.
No. Sutherland Shire prohibits dogs on Cronulla Beach. The timed off-leash beach is Greenhills, north of Wanda: 4pm to 10am in daylight saving, and 3pm to 10am in standard time. Cronulla Beach · Greenhills Beach
On Kingston’s summer map, 1 November to 31 March, those beaches are off leash from sunrise to 10am, closed from 10am to 7:30pm, and on leash from 7:30pm to sunrise. On the winter map, 1 April to 31 October, they are on leash from 11am to 3pm and off leash at other times. Aspendale · Edithvale · Kingston Council
Brisbane and south-east Queensland, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart and Darwin. Canberra has no ocean beach in this tool. A beach only gets a clock when the council page states the season, the hours and the stretch. Otherwise it says check with council. Brisbane · Perth · Adelaide · Hobart · Darwin
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