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Time Zone Map

Hover over the legend to see each of the time zones, or hover over a red dot to see time and time zone for that city. Search for a city to place a pin on the map.

    Time Zone Map by ⏱️ Time.now

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      How to Use the Map

      • Search for a City: Use the search field above to find any city. Clicking a result will place a black pin on the map.
      • Manage Pins: If you place more than one pin, an extra line of information is added underneath the map with links to those cities' pages. You may add as many pins as you like. To remove them all, simply click the "Remove all pins" link.
      • Explore Cities: Hover your mouse over any of the red dots to see the name of the city, its country, and the current local time. “DST” is displayed if the city is observing Daylight Saving Time. Click any red dot to go to that city's page with detailed information.
      • Explore Time Zones: Hover your mouse over the map to highlight time zones. You can also hover over the colored bar at the bottom to see the current time for any offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

      How Time Zones Work

      The world is divided into time zones so that clocks everywhere stay roughly aligned with the position of the sun. The reference point is Coordinated Universal Time (UTC): every zone is defined as an offset from it, from UTC-12 in the mid-Pacific to UTC+14 in Kiribati. When you move 15 degrees of longitude east, solar time advances by about one hour, which is why there are roughly 24 primary zones. In practice there are nearly 40 distinct offsets in use, because several countries adopted half-hour or even quarter-hour offsets: India runs on UTC+5:30, Nepal on UTC+5:45, and parts of Australia on UTC+9:30.

      Time zone boundaries rarely follow the neat vertical lines a globe would suggest. Countries bend them for political and economic reasons: China spans five geographic zones but uses a single national time, while mainland France sits on the Greenwich meridian yet keeps Central European Time. On the map you can see these zigzags clearly wherever a colored region bulges far east or west of its "natural" band.

      Major Time Zones at a Glance

      These are the zones most people look up. Click any of them for a live clock, the list of countries and cities that use it, and its exact relationship to UTC:

      For the complete list, browse all time zones with live clocks or the technical IANA time zone database entries that operating systems and servers use.

      Daylight Saving Time on the Map

      Around 70 countries move their clocks forward in spring and back in autumn, which temporarily shifts them into a neighboring offset. That is why a city can show EST in January and EDT in July on this map. The map always displays each city's current offset, with a "DST" tag while daylight saving is active. Northern and southern hemispheres switch in opposite seasons, so the gap between, say, New York and Sydney changes several times a year. See upcoming clock changes by country for exact transition dates.

      Working Across Time Zones

      To convert a specific meeting time rather than eyeball the map, the time zone converter compares any two or more cities side by side, and the meeting planner highlights the working-hours overlap between teams. For a single city's full details, including sunrise and sunset, DST rules, and upcoming changes, open its page by clicking a red dot on the map.

      Accuracy of the Time Zone Map

      All clock changes worldwide are automatically taken into account and displayed in real-time. Future changes are incorporated into our database before they take effect, so the map accurately reflects the current situation.

      Please note that this is a time zone map showing time zone boundaries, not a political map.