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Current local time in any city worldwide. Add multiple cities and compare time zones side by side. Automatically adjusts for Daylight Saving Time.

Last updated · US time zones and daylight saving dates checked against the IANA tz database and 15 U.S.C. 263

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What Is a World Clock?

The world clock shows the live local time in 258 cities, with daylight saving time applied from the official IANA time zone rules. As a quick guide, between March 29 and October 25, 2026, when both the US and Europe are on summer time, noon in New York is 5:00 PM in London, 9:30 PM in Mumbai and 1:00 AM the next day in Tokyo. Add any city above to compare it with your own time.

A world clock displays the current local time in multiple cities simultaneously, updated in real time. Unlike a simple timezone converter, a world clock shows you live clocks running in parallel, making it easy to see at a glance what time it is right now in New York, London, Tokyo, or any other city you track.

Our World Clock covers 200+ cities and world capitals across all time zones, shows each city's UTC offset with a DST tag when daylight saving time is in force, and lets you add or remove cities to build your own custom dashboard. It is updated every second directly from your device's clock, so it is always accurate without needing a server connection.

Common uses: scheduling international meetings, coordinating remote teams across continents, checking business hours for overseas clients, and tracking time in cities where family or colleagues live. Combine with our Timezone Converter and Meeting Time Planner for full scheduling power.

The search feature finds any city instantly. Popular cities are pinned at the top for quick access. The clock refreshes every second, every day, with no need to reload the page.

US Time Zones at a Glance

By law the United States and its territories use nine standard time zones. Daylight time runs from March 8 to November 1 in 2026 and from March 14 to November 7 in 2027.

ZoneStandardDaylightExample citiesIANA zone
EasternUTC−5UTC−4New York, Atlanta, MiamiAmerica/New_York
CentralUTC−6UTC−5Chicago, Houston, DallasAmerica/Chicago
MountainUTC−7UTC−6Denver, Salt Lake CityAmerica/Denver
Mountain, ArizonaUTC−7No DSTPhoenix, TucsonAmerica/Phoenix
PacificUTC−8UTC−7Los Angeles, Seattle, Las VegasAmerica/Los_Angeles
AlaskaUTC−9UTC−8Anchorage, FairbanksAmerica/Anchorage
Hawaii-AleutianUTC−10No DST in HawaiiHonoluluPacific/Honolulu
AtlanticUTC−4No DSTSan Juan, Puerto RicoAmerica/Puerto_Rico
ChamorroUTC+10No DSTGuamPacific/Guam
SamoaUTC−11No DSTPago Pago, American SamoaPacific/Pago_Pago

The Aleutian Islands west of 169.5°W share Hawaii's standard time but do observe daylight time (UTC−9 in summer). The Navajo Nation in Arizona observes daylight time; the rest of the state does not.

Offsets That Are Not Whole Hours

About 38 different UTC offsets are in use worldwide, from UTC−12 (the uninhabited Baker and Howland Islands) to UTC+14. These are the ones most likely to trip up a quick mental conversion.

PlaceOffsetNotes
India, Sri LankaUTC+5:30No daylight time
NepalUTC+5:45No daylight time
IranUTC+3:30No daylight time since 2022
AfghanistanUTC+4:30No daylight time
MyanmarUTC+6:30No daylight time
Newfoundland, CanadaUTC−3:30UTC−2:30 in summer
Adelaide, AustraliaUTC+9:30UTC+10:30 in the southern summer
Darwin, AustraliaUTC+9:30No daylight time
Lord Howe Island, AustraliaUTC+10:30Moves only 30 minutes in summer, to UTC+11
Chatham Islands, New ZealandUTC+12:45UTC+13:45 in the southern summer
Marquesas IslandsUTC−9:30No daylight time
Kiritimati, KiribatiUTC+14First inhabited place to reach each new day

How to Read the Clock Cards

  • Ahead or behind compares each city with the time zone set on your device, to the minute, so Mumbai shows 9h 30m ahead of New York in summer and 10h 30m in winter.
  • The offset line shows the city's current UTC offset. A "DST" tag means the city is on daylight saving time right now.
  • Card color follows the local hour: morning from 6 AM, afternoon from noon, evening from 6 PM and night from 10 PM.
  • Accuracy depends on your device clock, which phones and computers keep in sync over the internet. The time zone rules come from the IANA database built into your browser, which is updated with each browser release.

To convert a specific future time rather than see the current one, use the time zone converter. To find a slot for a call across several cities, use the meeting planner.

Method and sources. Local times, offsets and daylight saving status come from the IANA time zone database through your browser's Intl API; nothing is fetched from a server. The offset tables above were generated from the same database (tzdata 2026b). US zones: 15 U.S.C. 263 and the US Department of Transportation, which oversees time zone boundaries. Daylight saving rule: 15 U.S.C. 260a.

For daylight rather than clock time, the sunrise and sunset calculator gives both times for any place and date.

World Clock Questions

UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) is the primary international time standard. GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) refers to the time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, at 0° longitude. For everyday purposes they are interchangeable: both represent UTC+0. The technical difference is that UTC is based on atomic clocks while GMT is an astronomical standard. Most of the world's time zones are expressed as UTC+ or UTC− a certain number of hours.

DST is the practice of advancing clocks by one hour during warmer months so that evenings have more daylight. The United States "springs forward" on the second Sunday in March and "falls back" on the first Sunday in November. Europe changes on the last Sunday of March and October. Many countries do not observe DST at all, including China, Japan, India, Russia (since 2011), and most of Africa. This world clock automatically reflects the current DST status of each city.

Most time zones use whole-hour offsets, but some countries chose non-standard offsets for geographic, political, or historical reasons. India (UTC+5:30) and Sri Lanka (UTC+5:30) use 30-minute offsets. Nepal uses UTC+5:45, and New Zealand's Chatham Islands use UTC+12:45 (UTC+13:45 in their summer). Afghanistan uses UTC+4:30. Australia's Lord Howe Island uses UTC+10:30. Iran uses UTC+3:30. These offsets were often chosen to place the midday sun as close as possible to solar noon for the country's geographic center.

The International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary line at roughly 180° longitude in the Pacific Ocean where the calendar date changes. Crossing westward advances the date by one day; crossing eastward moves it back. This is why Samoa and Tonga are nearly a full day ahead of Hawaii despite being geographically close. The IDL is not perfectly straight: it zigzags around island nations so that neighboring communities share the same calendar date.

A UTC offset is simply the number of hours (and sometimes minutes) a location is ahead of or behind UTC. A time zone is a named region that follows the same offset, often with DST rules. For example, "Eastern Time" is a named time zone. In winter it observes EST (UTC−5) and in summer EDT (UTC−4). UTC offsets are static; time zones can change offset twice per year when DST starts and ends. This clock uses IANA time zone identifiers (like "America/New_York") to correctly handle all DST transitions.

Kiritimati (Christmas Island) in Kiribati is the furthest ahead at UTC+14: it was one of the first places to enter the new year. Among major cities, Auckland, New Zealand (UTC+12 or UTC+13 with DST) and Tokyo, Japan (UTC+9, no DST) are among the furthest ahead. On the other end, the Howland and Baker Islands (uninhabited US territories) use UTC−12, making them one of the last places on Earth to see each new day begin.

This clock uses the browser's built-in Intl (Internationalization) API with IANA time zone database entries to display the accurate local time in any city. Your browser already knows the rules for every time zone, including all historical and future DST transitions. The local time display uses your device's system clock, which should always be accurate if your device is connected to the internet (NTP synchronization). The clocks update every second using JavaScript's setInterval function.

The "golden hours" for international meetings are times when working hours (9am to 5pm) overlap across all participants. New York to London: 9am to 12pm Eastern (2pm to 5pm London) works well. New York to Singapore is very difficult: Singapore's business hours (9am to 5pm, UTC+8) correspond to 8pm to 4am Eastern in winter and 9pm to 5am in summer. For truly global meetings spanning the Americas, Europe, and Asia, many teams accept that someone will always be on a difficult time. Tools like meeting planners can help find the least-bad overlap window.

China spans roughly five natural geographic time zones (UTC+5 to UTC+9) but officially uses only one: China Standard Time at UTC+8. This was mandated in 1949 for national unity and simplicity. In practice, Xinjiang in the far west informally uses "Xinjiang Time" (UTC+6) for local schedules. The consequence is that sunrise in Kashgar, Xinjiang can be as late as 10am in winter by official clock time. By contrast, Russia uses 11 time zones, and the United States and its territories use 9 standard time zones.

The contiguous US uses four main time zones: Eastern (UTC−5/−4 DST), Central (UTC−6/−5), Mountain (UTC−7/−6), and Pacific (UTC−8/−7). Alaska uses Alaska Time (UTC−9/−8) and Hawaii uses Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (UTC−10, no DST for Hawaii). Arizona (except the Navajo Nation) does not observe DST, keeping UTC−7 year-round. US territories add further zones: Puerto Rico (UTC−4), Guam (UTC+10), and American Samoa (UTC−11).

London is 5 hours ahead of New York for most of the year. For a few weeks it is only 4 hours, because the US changes its clocks earlier in spring and later in fall than the UK. In 2026 that happens from March 8 to March 29 and from October 25 to November 1.

About 38 different UTC offsets are in use, from UTC−12 to UTC+14, including half-hour and 45-minute offsets such as India (UTC+5:30) and Nepal (UTC+5:45). The IANA database that computers use lists over 400 named zones, because places that share an offset today may have had different rules in the past.

The clock uses your device's time and time zone setting. If your own time is off, check that automatic date and time is turned on. If one city looks an hour off, your browser may be out of date and missing a recent time zone rule change, so update it.
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