The current time, anywhere in the world
Live local time in every major city. Convert between zones, plan a meeting across continents, and see when daylight saving time changes next — in seconds.
World at a glance
Live local time in 87 major cities.
Americas
Europe
Asia / Pacific
Africa / Middle East
Time zone abbreviations
Browse by abbreviation — CET, EST, PST, JST, and more.
UTC offsets
All time offsets from UTC-12 to UTC+14, including fractional offsets.
Popular city comparisons
The most-searched pairs — the right click if you're scheduling an international meeting or call.
Frequently Asked Questions
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary global time standard. Every other time zone is expressed as an offset from UTC — for example, UTC+02:00 is two hours ahead of UTC.
We cover all standard IANA time zones with dedicated pages for major cities across every continent.
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) maintains the Time Zone Database (tzdata), the authoritative source of time zone rules used by operating systems and programming languages. Each entry is an identifier like Europe/Prague or America/New_York.
Countries near the equator get roughly constant daylight year-round, so DST offers no benefit. Others have opted out for simpler scheduling (Russia, Turkey, most of Asia) or politically (Arizona and Hawaii in the US, Queensland and most of Western Australia). The European Union has repeatedly debated abolishing it.
The clock uses your device's system time and the IANA timezone database for offset calculations. DST transitions are handled automatically.
Use the quick-compare dropdowns at the top of this page or open any city's time page and click "Compare with another city". The comparison page shows live clocks for both cities, the exact hour difference, a full hour-by-hour conversion table, and a DST-mismatch warning when the schedules differ.