How to use the extended list
Each row shows a city, its country, the local time with the weekday and the current UTC offset, all updating live. City names link to a full page with the time zone, daylight saving status, sunrise and sunset, and other cities in the same country.
With about 280 rows, the quickest way to find a place is the filter box: type part of a city or country name and the table narrows as you type. The continent chips show only one region, which is handy for comparing, for example, all the cities listed in Africa or South America.
What the extended list adds
The capital cities list gives one city per country. That is not enough for countries that span several time zones, or where the best-known city is not the capital. The extended list adds large cities such as:
- New York, Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles in the United States;
- Toronto, Vancouver and Halifax in Canada;
- Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide in Australia;
- cities across Russia, Brazil, Mexico and Indonesia, each with several zones;
- large non-capital cities such as Mumbai, Shanghai, Istanbul, Lagos and São Paulo.
Many cities, fewer clocks
Although the list has about 280 cities, there are far fewer distinct local times. Whole regions share a clock: most of continental Europe uses Central European Time, all of China uses one time zone, and India uses a single offset of UTC+5:30. Sorting by offset in your head is often the easiest way to see which cities keep the same time.
Daylight saving time adds a twist: cities on the same offset in winter can be an hour apart in summer if only one of them changes its clocks, and the dates of the change differ between Europe, North America and the southern hemisphere. The offset column always shows the value in effect now. For background, see daylight saving time.
For a shorter overview, see time in major cities. To keep your own list of cities with time differences from you, use the world clock.