Time Zone Map
See every UTC offset, the countries that use it, and the current time there
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Striped zones run 30 or 45 minutes off the hour. Click a country or an ocean band to highlight its zone.
Jump to an offset
Countries in UTC 16 countries
- Burkina Faso: Kadiogo
- Ghana: Kumasi
- Greenland: Qaanaaq
- Guinea: Camayenne
- Guinea-Bissau: Bissau
- Iceland: Reykjavรญk
- Ivory Coast: Abidjan
- Liberia: Monrovia
- Mali: Bamako
- Mauritania: Nouadhibou
- Portugal: Ponta Delgada
- Sao Tome and Principe: Sรฃo Tomรฉ
- Senegal: Dakar
- Sierra Leone: Freetown
- The Gambia: Serekunda
- Togo: Lomรฉ
No country keeps this offset.
See every time zone at a glance
This interactive world map colors each country by its current UTC offset, updated automatically for daylight saving time.
- Click a point on the map or an offset under the map to highlight all the countries or regions that share the same zone.
- In countries that span several zones, the point you click decides which zone lights up, so clicking on California highlights a different zone than clicking on New York.
- The country list shows all the countries in the zone along with their biggest city in the zone.
Why this is useful
- See which places share your current time for geography projects and quizzes.
- Visualize the time difference between two places when planning your next international call or project.
- Show how time zones work in a classroom or online lesson.
Common questions
- Is UTC the same as GMT?
- No, but both are commonly used as reference times. GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is the older reference, based on the mean solar time in Greenwich, UK. UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) is the modern standard used for international timekeeping and in online calendars. In summer, the UK follows British Summer Time, which is one hour ahead of UTC.
- Why do some countries have more than one color?
- Large countries such as Russia, the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Australia span several time zones. These are shown as vertical strips, one per zone, instead of a single color.
- What do the striped areas mean?
- Stripes show zones that don't align with a whole hour, such as India at UTC+5:30 and Nepal at UTC+5:45. The stripes make them easy to pick out from the whole-hour zones around them.
- Why doesn't the list show the capital city?
- The cities in the offset list are the biggest cities in the zone for each country. This can be different from the capital city: for example, the city for Turkey is Istanbul (not the Turkish capital Ankara). For countries that span several zones, the zone may not cover the capital at all: the United States appears with Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, and New York depending on the zone you highlight.
- Why are there more than 24 zones?
- World time zones range from UTC-12 to UTC+14. There are more than 24 because some countries run on half- and quarter-hour offsets, and some Pacific islands use UTC+13 or UTC+14 to keep the same calendar day as other countries in their region.
Related tools
- Use the meeting planner to find the best time to meet using an interactive scale.
- Visit the world clock to see the current time in multiple cities as a scannable list.
- Use the time zone converter to see a set time across just two zones.