Current time by city
Live local time and time zone detail for 116 major cities.
Choose a city for its current time, UTC offset, daylight saving status, sunrise and sunset, and how it compares with your own time zone. You can also search any city or IANA zone from the box in the header.
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bangladesh
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Cuba
Czechia
Denmark
Egypt
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Hong Kong SAR
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Kenya
Kuwait
Malaysia
Mexico
Morocco
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Pakistan
Panama
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Türkiye
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Venezuela
Vietnam
How the city figures are worked out
The size of the seasonal swing in day length is set almost entirely by latitude. Places near the equator have days close to twelve hours all year, while the further a city sits from it the more extreme the difference becomes. Sunrise and sunset are measured to the moment the centre of the sun sits 0.833° below the horizon, which allows for atmospheric refraction and the width of the solar disc.
Figures are calculated for the city centre at sea level with a flat horizon. Hills, tall buildings and altitude move the observed times by a few minutes. Sunrise and sunset are also affected by how far a city sits within its time zone: a place at the eastern edge sees the sun earlier by the clock than one at the western edge, even on the same latitude and the same date. Each city page says how far its clock sits from the sun for exactly this reason.
When clocks go forward, the hour they skip never happens: no clock in that city shows those times on that date, and a meeting booked inside the gap has no valid moment to land on. When they go back, the repeated hour happens twice, so a bare local time in that window is genuinely ambiguous unless the offset is stated alongside it.
Not changing the clocks is the more common arrangement worldwide. Daylight saving pays off most at high latitudes, where the difference between a midsummer and a midwinter day is measured in hours; closer to the equator the sun rises and sets at much the same time all year, so moving the clock buys almost nothing. One consequence for a city that never moves: the gap between it and places that do change shifts twice a year, without anything changing locally at all.
For calls, the practical rule is to compare working days rather than clock times. Two cities can be only a few hours apart and still share most of a working day, while a twelve-hour gap leaves no overlap and someone has to take the call outside normal hours. Remember the date can differ as well as the hour: when the gap is large enough, the far end of a call may already be on the following day, which matters most on Fridays and Mondays. The meeting planner works the overlap out across several cities at once.