Time zone converter and meeting planner

Compare up to six time zones with a 24-hour grid, daylight saving and a share link.

Time zones
  • New YorkAmerica/New_York
  • LondonEurope/London
  • Ho Chi Minh CityAsia/Ho_Chi_Minh
The same moment in each zone
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What this tool does

You pick two to six places, enter a date and a time in any of them, and the tool shows what the clock says everywhere else at that same moment. Under the results a 24-hour grid lines the places up hour by hour, shading night and normal working hours, so you can see at a glance when a call suits everyone. It handles daylight saving time from the time zone data your browser already has, and it shows its working when a time is odd: a time that does not exist, or one that happens twice. The whole state lives in the page address, so a link to the page is a link to your comparison. Nothing is sent to a server.

How to use it

  1. Check the date and time. The page starts with the current time in your own time zone.
  2. Press Add a place to compare another city. Type a city, a country, an old name such as Saigon or Calcutta, or a zone name such as Asia/Kolkata.
  3. Choose which place the time is entered in. Switching it keeps the same moment and rewrites the date and time in the new place.
  4. Read the grid: each column is the same hour for every row. Click a column to set the time to that hour. The marked column is the time you chose.
  5. Press Copy as text for a message you can paste into a chat or an invitation, or copy the page address.

Reading the grid

The grid covers the 24 hours that start at midnight on your chosen date in the entered-in place. Each row shows what the clock reads in one place during those hours. Night is 22:00 to 06:00 on that place's own clock, shown dark with a moon, and work hours are 09:00 to 18:00, shown tinted. Colour is not the only signal: night cells carry a moon and all cells are named for screen readers. A thick line and a short weekday name mark the column where a place's calendar day changes. Places with half-hour or 45-minute offsets, such as India (GMT+5:30) and Nepal (GMT+5:45), show their minutes in every cell.

Daylight saving, done properly

A time zone is more than a fixed number of hours: it is a set of rules, and the rules differ. In 2026 the United States moved its clocks on 8 March and 1 November, Europe on 29 March and 25 October, and Sydney on 4 October and 5 April. Because the dates differ, the gap between New York and London is 5 hours for most of the year but 4 hours for three weeks in March and one week in October: 09:00 in New York on Tuesday 10 March is 13:00 in London. Vietnam has no daylight saving and is always GMT+7. Lord Howe Island changes by only 30 minutes. This tool never keeps a table of offsets. It asks the browser for the real offset at each moment, so the answer is right for any date the data covers, in both hemispheres.

When a time does not exist, or happens twice

On the day clocks go forward, an hour is skipped: in New York 02:30 on 8 March 2026 never happens. The tool says so and moves to 03:30, which is what a clock that kept running would show. On the day clocks go back, an hour happens twice: 01:30 on 1 November 2026 in New York is 05:30 UTC the first time and 06:30 UTC the second. The tool shows the first one and offers a switch for the second. In the most extreme case, Samoa skipped the whole of 30 December 2011 when it crossed the date line.

A worked example and good to know

Take 09:00 on Thursday 15 October 2026 in Ho Chi Minh City. That is 02:00 UTC, 03:00 in London (GMT+1 with daylight saving), 07:30 in India, 13:00 in Sydney and 22:00 on Wednesday 14 October in New York (GMT-4). Everything you enter stays in the page address after the # sign, which browsers never send to a server, so the link is safe to share. Time zone rules change several times a year, and a rule that is not yet published cannot be known: dates far in the future use the current rules. The labels use the usual GMT+7 form; be careful with the zone names Etc/GMT+7 and similar, where the sign is the opposite. To convert a single timestamp or date instead, use the timestamp converter, and to see when a scheduled job will run in a given zone, the cron expression explainer.

Frequently asked questions

How do I find a meeting time that suits everyone?

Add every place, then look along the grid for columns where all rows are tinted as work hours. If there is no such column, look for the one with the fewest dark cells. Click the column to set the time, then copy the text or the link into your invitation.

Does it handle daylight saving time?

Yes, for every zone and both hemispheres. It uses the rules in your browser's time zone data instead of a fixed table, flags places that are on daylight saving time on the chosen date, and explains times that are skipped or repeated when the clocks change.

Why is there no time zone for my city?

Time zones are named after a major city in the region, and a smaller city shares the zone of its region. Search for the country or a nearby big city. Old names such as Asia/Saigon and Asia/Calcutta are understood and mapped to today's names.

What is in the link, and is it private?

The link holds the places, the date, the time and the reference place after the # sign. Browsers do not send that part to the website's server, so nothing about your meeting reaches us. Anyone you give the link to sees the same comparison.

Why do my results differ from another converter?

Check the date: a gap that is 5 hours in summer can be 4 hours for a few weeks around the clock changes. Also check which place the time was entered in. If both are right, one of the tools may have older time zone data.