Timezone Map
Every UTC offset, the countries that keep 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 open 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 timezone at a glance
This interactive world map colours each country by the UTC offset it keeps right now, so the whole grid reads at a glance. Select any zone and the panel below lists the countries in it, one city each, with the time they all share at this moment. Because the colours come from the offsets in force today, a country that has just moved its clocks for daylight saving is already shown in its new zone.
How to use the timezone map
- Click a country to open the zone it keeps. In countries that span several zones, the point you click decides which one, so a click on California and a click on New York give different answers.
- Click one of the vertical bands over open water to open that whole hour, or use the offset row under the map on a phone.
- Read the country list underneath. Every country in that zone is listed with a representative city and the current time they share.
Common questions
- Why is one country painted in several colours?
- Because it keeps more than one clock. Countries wide enough to span several offsets, such as Russia, the United States, Canada, Brazil and Australia, are drawn as vertical strips, one per zone, instead of a single colour that would be wrong nearly everywhere.
- What do the striped areas mean?
- They are the zones that sit 30 or 45 minutes off 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.
- Does the map follow daylight saving?
- Yes. Each country is coloured by the offset it is actually keeping at this moment, so countries that observe daylight saving move one band east for the summer half of the year and back again in autumn. It is why the map does not look the same in July as it does in January.
- How many timezones are there?
- About 38 are in use, spread from UTC-12 to UTC+14. That is more than 24 because several countries run on half and quarter hour offsets, and because Kiribati pushed its eastern islands past the date line so the whole country could share one calendar day.
- Which city is shown for each country?
- The largest city that country has in that zone. For countries in a single zone it is usually the biggest city in the country; for the wide ones it is the biggest city per zone, which is why the United States appears with Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago and New York in four different rows.
Related tools
- The world clock shows the current time in several cities at once.
- The timezone converter converts a single time between two zones.