How to use the table
Each row shows one city:
- the city name, which links to that city’s own page with sunrise and sunset, daylight saving status and more;
- the country;
- the local time with the weekday, updating live;
- the current UTC offset.
To find a city quickly, type part of its name or country in the filter box. The continent chips narrow the table to one region, such as Europe or Asia, so you can compare the cities in that part of the world at a glance.
For quick links, the most visited city pages include the time in New York, London, Paris, Tokyo and Sydney.
Reading UTC offsets
The offset tells you how far a city’s local time is from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Subtract two offsets to get the time difference between cities: Tokyo at UTC+9 is 14 hours ahead of New York at UTC−5. Most offsets are whole hours, but a few are not: Mumbai and New Delhi, for example, are on UTC+5:30.
Offsets are not fixed all year. Cities that use daylight saving time move one hour ahead in their summer, which means:
- northern hemisphere cities such as London, Paris and New York are one hour further ahead (or less far behind) from about March to October or November;
- southern hemisphere cities such as Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland do the reverse, with summer time from about September or October to April;
- cities near the equator, and many in Asia and Africa, keep the same offset all year.
Why “major cities”?
The table picks cities that people often need to check: big business centers, capital cities and places with large populations, spread across every inhabited continent. Several cities can share a time zone, so the list also gives a quick overview of the zones in use. For a complete set of capitals, see capital city times, and for about 280 cities, the extended list.
To build your own set of cities with time differences from you, use the world clock. To find a call time for several of these cities, try the meeting planner.