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World clock
What time is it around the world right now?
The Earth flattened out — day, night and local time at this moment. Click a city dot to jump to its clock.
The clock wall — every city ticking in the same second
UTC-10
1 cityUTC-8
1 cityUnited States
UTC-7
2 citiesUnited States
United States
UTC-6
2 cities
Mexico
United States
UTC-5
1 cityUnited States
UTC-4
2 citiesUnited States
Canada
UTC-3
2 cities
Brazil
Argentina
UTC+1
3 cities
UTC+2
5 cities
UTC+3
3 cities
UTC+4
1 city
United Arab Emirates
UTC+5
2 cities
UTC+5:30
2 cities
UTC+6
1 city
Bangladesh
UTC+7
3 cities
UTC+8
14 cities
UTC+9
2 cities
UTC+10
2 cities
UTC+12
1 city
New Zealand
How to read the world clock
The clock wall is one big world clock: every city ticks in the same second but shows its own local time. The groups are ordered by UTC offset — how many hours a city runs ahead of or behind Coordinated Universal Time, the common reference all zones are defined against. At the top you find the zones furthest west (the Americas, where the day starts latest), and at the bottom the zones furthest east (Asia and Oceania, where the day is furthest along). Because cities are grouped by offset rather than by country, every place sharing the same wall time sits side by side — which makes it easy to see where in the world it is morning, afternoon or the middle of the night right now.
Need the time in one particular place? Click the city to open its live clock page with the exact time difference to where you are. The spread is enormous — compare Los Angeles and New York in the west with Dubai and Tokyo in the east to get a feel for it.
Day and night right now
The map at the top is the Earth unfolded, live: the day side shows the continents in satellite imagery, the night side glows with city lights, and the boundary between them — the terminator — sits exactly where the sun actually stands at this moment. ☀ and ☾ mark where it is precisely solar noon and midnight. The terminator is a quick politeness check before you call someone: a city on the day side is probably awake; one deep in the night side would rather you waited. For planning across several zones, the time-difference pages and the time zone converter do the arithmetic for you.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a world clock?
- A world clock shows the current local time in many places at once instead of just where you are. Every clock on this page ticks in the same second — only the displayed time differs, because each city reads that second in its own time zone.
- Why do cities show different times?
- The Earth rotates once every 24 hours, so the sun can only be overhead in one place at a time. Time zones split the world into bands that each keep a fixed offset from UTC, the common reference time — when it is noon UTC it is 7:00 AM in New York (UTC-5) and 9:00 PM in Tokyo (UTC+9).
- Does this world clock handle daylight saving time?
- Yes. Each clock uses your browser's built-in time zone database, so cities move between offset groups automatically when they switch to or from daylight saving time — no manual adjustment needed.