World Clock — Live Time in Every Time Zone

A live, animated world clock showing the current time in all US time zones (including Texas) and major cities around the globe. Type any city in the world into the search box and a live clock is generated instantly. Each clock updates every second with a real-time analog and digital display, plus a day or night sky that matches local time — accurate and DST-aware worldwide.

💡 Type any city in the world — your own town or anywhere else — to instantly see its current local time, date and time zone. Try your city now.

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Times are calculated in your browser using the IANA time-zone database and automatically account for Daylight Saving Time. The sky color of each clock reflects whether it is dawn, day, dusk, or night in that city right now.

Live World Clock: Current Time Across Every Time Zone in 2026

This world clock shows the exact current time in all six US time zones — Eastern (ET), Central (CT), Mountain (MT), Pacific (PT), Alaska (AKT), and Hawaii (HST) — alongside major financial and cultural capitals worldwide. Every clock is live and updates each second, with a smooth analog sweep and a digital readout in both 12-hour and 24-hour styles. Because the times are computed from your device using the IANA time-zone database, Daylight Saving Time is handled automatically: when the US springs forward on March 8, 2026 or falls back on November 1, 2026, these clocks adjust without any action from you.

The colored sky behind each clock is a quick visual cue for local conditions: a warm pink glow means dawn, a bright blue sky means daytime business hours, an orange-violet gradient means dusk, and a deep indigo with stars means night. That makes it easy to tell at a glance whether it is a reasonable hour to call a colleague in London, a client in Tokyo, or family in Sydney. Use the search box to jump to any city, or filter to just US zones for domestic scheduling.

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All 6 US Time Zones

ET, CT, MT, PT, Alaska, and Hawaii shown together. The Eastern–Pacific gap is a constant 3 hours year-round, so 9 AM in New York is 6 AM in Los Angeles. Hawaii and most of Arizona never observe DST.

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Major World Cities

London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Tokyo, Beijing, Sydney, Auckland and more — covering every major business region from UTC−10 to UTC+13.

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Accurate to the Second

Clocks sync to your device clock and tick in real time. Seconds are identical across zones; only the hour and minute shift by each region's UTC offset.

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Day & Night at a Glance

Each clock's sky shows dawn, day, dusk, or night for that city, so you instantly know if it's a polite time to schedule a meeting or send a message.

US Time Zones: Current Time, UTC Offsets & Abbreviations

The United States uses four main time zones across the lower 48 — Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific — plus Alaska and Hawaii, for six in everyday use (and nine including territories such as Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa). The table below lists every US time zone with its standard and daylight abbreviations, current UTC offset, and largest cities. Tap the US Zones filter above to watch them all tick live, or search a city such as New York, Chicago, Denver, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Anchorage, or Honolulu.

Time ZoneAbbreviationUTC Offset (Std / DST)Major US CitiesDST?
Eastern TimeET — EST / EDTUTC−5 / UTC−4New York, Washington DC, Atlanta, Miami, Boston, PhiladelphiaYes
Central TimeCT — CST / CDTUTC−6 / UTC−5Chicago, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Nashville, New OrleansYes
Mountain TimeMT — MST / MDTUTC−7 / UTC−6Denver, Salt Lake City, AlbuquerqueYes
Mountain (Arizona)MSTUTC−7 (no DST)Phoenix, Tucson, MesaNo
Pacific TimePT — PST / PDTUTC−8 / UTC−7Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, San Diego, Las Vegas, PortlandYes
Alaska TimeAKT — AKST / AKDTUTC−9 / UTC−8Anchorage, Fairbanks, JuneauYes
Hawaii–AleutianHSTUTC−10 (no DST)Honolulu, Hilo, KailuaNo

Because Eastern and Pacific Time change for Daylight Saving Time on the same dates, the coast-to-coast difference stays a constant 3 hours all year: 9:00 AM in New York is 6:00 AM in Los Angeles. Central Time runs 1 hour behind Eastern and Mountain Time runs 2 hours behind Eastern. To turn any time in one zone into every other, use our Time Zone Converter.

Current Time in Major World Cities

This international clock covers every major financial and cultural capital, from UTC−10 to UTC+13. The snapshot below shows each city's standard UTC offset and how far ahead of US Eastern Time it normally sits. Search any of these — or literally any city on Earth — to generate a live, second-by-second clock with the correct local date and a day-or-night sky.

CityCountry / RegionUTC Offsetvs. US Eastern
LondonUnited KingdomUTC+0 / +1+5 hours
Paris · Berlin · RomeEuropeUTC+1 / +2+6 hours
MoscowRussiaUTC+3+8 hours
DubaiUnited Arab EmiratesUTC+4+9 hours
Mumbai · New DelhiIndiaUTC+5:30+10.5 hours
Singapore · BeijingAsiaUTC+8+13 hours
Tokyo · SeoulJapan / South KoreaUTC+9+14 hours
SydneyAustraliaUTC+10 / +11+15 hours
AucklandNew ZealandUTC+12 / +13+17 hours
São PauloBrazilUTC−3+2 hours
Toronto · Mexico CityNorth AmericaUTC−5 / −6same / −1 hour

"What Time Is It in…?" Instant Answers for Any City

One of the most-searched questions online is simply "what time is it in" a particular place. Instead of a static answer that goes stale, this page gives you a live clock the moment you type. Popular look-ups include what time is it in New York, California, Texas, Florida, Chicago, and Hawaii inside the US, and what time is it in London, India, Tokyo, Dubai, Germany, Australia, and the Philippines internationally. Type a city and you instantly see the current time, the local day and date, the UTC offset, and whether it is day or night there right now.

Time Zone Abbreviations Explained: ET, EST, GMT, UTC, IST & More

Time-zone abbreviations trip people up because most zones have separate names for standard and daylight time. Here are the ones you will meet most often:

AbbreviationMeaningUTC Offset
UTCCoordinated Universal Time — the global standardUTC+0
GMTGreenwich Mean Time (London, winter)UTC+0
EST / EDTEastern Standard / Daylight Time (USA)UTC−5 / −4
CST / CDTCentral Standard / Daylight Time (USA)UTC−6 / −5
MST / MDTMountain Standard / Daylight Time (USA)UTC−7 / −6
PST / PDTPacific Standard / Daylight Time (USA)UTC−8 / −7
BSTBritish Summer Time (UK, summer)UTC+1
CET / CESTCentral European Time / Summer TimeUTC+1 / +2
ISTIndia Standard TimeUTC+5:30
JSTJapan Standard TimeUTC+9
AEST / AEDTAustralian Eastern Standard / Daylight TimeUTC+10 / +11

Daylight Saving Time 2026: When Do the Clocks Change?

In the United States, Daylight Saving Time in 2026 begins at 2:00 AM on Sunday, March 8, 2026, when clocks "spring forward" one hour, and ends at 2:00 AM on Sunday, November 1, 2026, when clocks "fall back" one hour. The European Union and United Kingdom switch on the last Sundays of March and October, and Southern-Hemisphere countries such as Australia and New Zealand change in the opposite seasons. You never have to track these dates here — every clock applies the correct rule automatically using the IANA time-zone database, so it stays accurate to the minute before and after each transition.

How to Use This World Clock & Time Zone Search

Why use the True Value Calc world clock?

It is completely free, needs no sign-up, and shows real animated analog and digital clocks instead of a plain list of numbers. Everything runs privately in your browser — your location and searches are never stored — and the times are accurate to the second, fully DST-aware, and support half-hour and 45-minute zones like India (UTC+5:30) and Nepal (UTC+5:45). Whether you are scheduling an international call, checking on family overseas, trading global markets, or simply curious what time it is on the other side of the world, this is the fastest live world clock and time-zone tool to reach for.

Frequently Asked Questions

It is accurate to the second. The clocks read your device clock and apply each region's official UTC offset using the IANA time-zone database built into your browser, so they match the real local time in every city shown. If your computer or phone clock is correct, every clock on this page is correct.
Yes. DST is applied automatically per region. When US clocks spring forward on March 8, 2026 or fall back on November 1, 2026 — and when Europe, Australia, and other regions change on their own dates — the affected city clocks shift by an hour with no action needed from you. Zones that do not observe DST, like Hawaii, most of Arizona, Japan, and India, stay fixed.
Time zones differ only by whole-hour or half-hour offsets, never by seconds. So the second hand is identical worldwide — it is the hour and minute that change from city to city. That is why every clock on this page ticks in perfect unison on the seconds.
Each clock's background reflects the local time of day in that city: a pink glow for dawn (about 5–7 AM), bright blue for daytime (7 AM–5 PM), an orange-violet gradient for dusk (5–7 PM), and a starry indigo for night. It is a quick way to see whether it is a polite hour to call someone in another country.
All six: Eastern (New York), Central (Chicago), Mountain (Denver), Pacific (Los Angeles), Alaska (Anchorage), and Hawaii (Honolulu). Use the "US Zones" filter to view only these. Including US territories, the country actually spans nine zones from UTC−11 to UTC+10.
The large clock at the top of this page shows your exact current local time, read directly from your device and refreshed every second. To find the current time anywhere else, type a city — for example New York, London, Tokyo, Dubai, or Sydney — into the search box and a live clock for that location appears instantly with its local date and UTC offset.
From east to west: Eastern Time (ET, UTC−5/−4), Central Time (CT, UTC−6/−5), Mountain Time (MT, UTC−7/−6), Pacific Time (PT, UTC−8/−7), Alaska Time (AKT, UTC−9/−8), and Hawaii–Aleutian Time (HST, UTC−10). The first number is standard time and the second is daylight time. Most of Arizona stays on Mountain Standard Time year-round, and Hawaii never observes Daylight Saving Time.
Eastern Time is always 3 hours ahead of Pacific Time, so 9:00 AM in New York is 6:00 AM in Los Angeles. The gap stays constant all year because both observe Daylight Saving Time on the same dates. Central Time is 1 hour behind Eastern, and Mountain Time is 2 hours behind Eastern.
EST (Eastern Standard Time, UTC−5) is used in winter and EDT (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−4) in summer. "ET" (Eastern Time) is the umbrella term meaning whichever is currently in effect — which is why TV listings say "8/7c". The same pattern applies to CT (CST/CDT), MT (MST/MDT), and PT (PST/PDT).
UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) is the global standard that every time zone is measured against, written as an offset such as UTC−5 or UTC+9. GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is the local time on the Prime Meridian in London and is effectively the same as UTC+0 in everyday use, though UTC is the precise scientific reference. This world clock shows each city as its UTC offset so zones are easy to compare.
Search for both cities and read their two live clocks side by side — the difference between them is your conversion. For a specific future date and time, or to convert any two zones precisely, use our Time Zone Converter, linked under Related Tools below.
Military or 24-hour time counts from 00:00 (midnight) to 23:59 instead of restarting at 12 with AM/PM. For example 1:00 PM is 13:00 and 9:00 PM is 21:00. To convert a PM time to 24-hour format, add 12 to the hour (except 12 PM, which stays 12:00); AM hours are the same, except 12 AM becomes 00:00.
In the United States, clocks spring forward one hour at 2:00 AM on Sunday, March 8, 2026, and fall back at 2:00 AM on Sunday, November 1, 2026. The UK and EU change on the last Sundays of March and October, while Australia and New Zealand shift in the opposite seasons. Every clock here applies the correct change automatically.
In the US, Hawaii and most of Arizona stay on standard time all year. Worldwide, most of Asia and Africa — including Japan, India, China, and the Gulf states — and most of South America never change their clocks. Because this world clock uses the official IANA database, every city is shown correctly whether or not it observes DST.

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