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How do I see the current time in different time zones at once?

Open the World Clock, search for any city, and add it. Each city shows its live time, date, day-or-night state and how many hours it is ahead of or behind you. A built-in meeting planner lines the cities up on a 24-hour strip so you can spot a time that suits everyone — all in your browser, with no signup.

  • Search and add from 110+ major world cities
  • Live time, date, UTC offset and difference from your local time
  • Meeting planner highlights overlapping working hours (9–17)
  • Daylight saving handled automatically; nothing is uploaded

What is

World Clock

A world clock is a tool that displays the current time in several time zones side by side, converting one reference instant into each city’s local time — including its correct daylight-saving offset — so people in different regions can compare times and schedule across zones.

Time & Date

Related terms

Time ZoneUTC OffsetDaylight Saving TimeMeeting PlannerIANA Time Zone Database

Frequently Asked Questions

It reads your device clock and converts it into each city’s zone using the IANA time-zone database built into your browser, so daylight saving is automatic.

The World Clock takes the current moment from your own device’s clock and converts it into each selected city’s local time using your browser’s built-in Intl date library and the IANA time-zone database it ships with. Because the browser knows each zone’s daylight-saving rules, the offsets shift on the correct dates with no plugin to update. Nothing is sent to a server — the only requirement is that your device clock itself is set correctly.

Add each participant’s city, then drag the planner slider — green blocks show working hours (9–17), so the overlap is the best time to meet.

Add every participant’s city to the World Clock, then use the meeting planner below. It draws a 24-hour strip for each city aligned to the same instant and colours it: green for working hours (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.), amber for early morning or evening, and grey for the middle of the night. Drag the slider to test a candidate time and the highlighted column shows that exact hour in every city, so a slot where most rows are green is your best meeting time.

Yes — daylight saving is applied automatically because the offsets come from your browser’s IANA time-zone data.

Yes. Every offset is resolved live from the IANA time-zone database inside your browser rather than from a fixed table, so daylight-saving transitions are handled automatically for each city. When a region springs forward or falls back, the displayed time and the UTC offset change on the correct date without any action from you and without an update to the tool.

Yes — it is free with no signup, runs entirely in your browser, and your chosen cities are saved only on your device.

The World Clock is completely free with no account or limits. All time conversion happens in your browser using built-in date APIs, so nothing about your location or chosen cities is sent to any server. Your selected cities and your 12 or 24-hour preference are stored only in your browser’s local storage, and the tool keeps working offline after the first load.

Detailed Explanation

How It Works

World Clock and Time-Zone Comparison

AnyTool’s World Clock shows the current time across many cities at once. It displays the user’s own local time prominently with a clock that ticks every second, then lists any number of selected cities, each with its live time, full date, a day-or-night marker, its UTC offset and the signed difference in hours from the user’s local time. Cities are chosen from a searchable catalogue of more than 110 major cities spanning every continent, and the selection plus the 12/24-hour preference are remembered in the browser.

  • Live local clock plus 110+ searchable world cities
  • Each city shows time, date, day/night, UTC offset and difference from local
  • Add, remove and reorder cities; selection persists in local storage
  • 12-hour or 24-hour formatting, toggled instantly
Use Cases

Meeting Planner with Working-Hours Overlap

A built-in meeting planner draws a horizontal 24-hour strip for the local zone and every selected city, all aligned to the same instant. Each hour cell is colour-coded — green for working hours (09:00–17:00), amber for early-morning or evening shoulder hours, and grey for the middle of the night — and a draggable slider shifts a reference time so the highlighted column shows that exact hour in every city. This makes the time slot where most cities are in their working day immediately visible, which is the core task when scheduling calls across regions.

  • 24-hour strip per city aligned to one reference instant
  • Green = 9–17 working hours, amber = early/late, grey = night
  • Draggable slider tests any candidate meeting time
  • Best overlap (most green columns) is obvious at a glance
Technical Details

DST-Aware Conversion Without a Time-Zone Library

All time conversion uses the browser’s native Intl.DateTimeFormat with an explicit IANA timeZone, so no third-party time-zone library or bundled offset table is needed. A single instant from the device clock is formatted into each zone, and UTC offsets are derived by comparing the same instant rendered in UTC versus the target zone. Because the IANA database inside the browser carries each region’s daylight-saving rules, offsets and times update on the correct transition dates automatically. The only external dependency is that the device clock is set correctly; if it is wrong, every displayed time is off by the same amount.

  • Uses native Intl.DateTimeFormat with IANA timeZone ids
  • Offsets derived from formatToParts — no offset table to maintain
  • Daylight saving applied automatically from the IANA database
  • No server calls, no CDN, no time-zone npm dependency
World Clock: in-browser (AnyTool) vs typical online world clocks
CapabilityAnyToolTypical online world clocks
ProcessingRuns in your browserOften ad-gated or server-rendered
Cities available110+ across all continentsVaries
Day / night markerYes, per citySometimes
UTC offset + difference from youYes, both shownOften offset only
Meeting plannerYes, 24-hour overlap stripSometimes a separate tool
Working-hours overlapHighlighted 9–17 with sliderRare
DST handlingAutomatic via IANA databaseUsually automatic
Saved selectionIn your browser onlyOften needs an account
Works offlineYes (PWA)No
Cost / signupFree, no signupOften ad-heavy

AnyTool converts every time locally with the browser’s Intl APIs and uploads nothing.