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What time is it there? The time in another place, before you call

Your mother is in Guatemala and you get off work at six. The benefits office says it closes at 5:00 PM Eastern and you live in Arizona. A cousin in Manila says "call me at nine in the morning, my time." This page works out what time it is in the other place: right now, or for a day and a time you pick. It also shows how far apart the two clocks are, and the next date that changes.

Private by design. Nothing you pick is sent anywhere, and nothing is kept: the page forgets it when you close it. To fill in "Where I am", the page reads the clock and the time zone setting of this device; that stays on the device too. It does not ask for your location. This page runs no analytics or tracking. How we handle privacy.

Good to know

Where the times come from

This page carries no clock rules of its own. Your phone or computer keeps a list of the world's time zones and the dates each place moves its clocks: the Time Zone Database, which is looked after at IANA. The page asks the device's own copy. IANA's page says people get updates to this list through their software and operating system. When we read it on October 10, 2026, it gave the latest version as 2026e, released September 29, 2026.

Which place goes with which clock is from that database's own table of countries (the file zone1970.tab, version 2026c, read on October 10, 2026). The list here has 89 places. A country is listed by its name alone only when that table puts the whole country on one clock. Any other country is listed with a city, and the answer is the time in that city.

Examples, worked by hand.

12:00 PM (noon) in New York on July 1, 2026 is 10:00 AM in Guatemala: 2 hours behind.
12:00 PM (noon) in New York on January 15, 2026 is 11:00 AM in Guatemala: 1 hour behind. New York moved its clocks in between, and by this list Guatemala did not.
8:00 PM in Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 1, 2026 is 8:30 AM on Thursday, July 2 in India: 12 hours and 30 minutes ahead, and the next day.
9:00 AM in the Philippines on Thursday, July 2, 2026 is 9:00 PM on Wednesday, July 1 in New York: the day before.
12:00 PM (noon) in New York on March 10, 2026 is 4:00 PM in the United Kingdom: 4 hours ahead. From late on March 28 it is 5 hours again.
2:30 AM on March 8, 2026 does not happen in New York: the clocks skip from 2:00 to 3:00. And 1:30 AM on November 1, 2026 happens twice.

A program checks these examples every time the page is built. It also checks 440 made-up counts and 60 "next change" counts against a second program that works them out another way.

Where this trips people up

The gap between two places is not the same all year. Some places move their clocks in spring and fall, some do not, and those that do pick different dates. The page shows the gap for the date you picked, and the next date it changes.
It can be another day there. Evening here can be tomorrow morning there. The page says so.
12:00 AM is midnight and 12:00 PM is noon. The page writes the word next to both.
Not every gap is a whole hour. India is a half hour off from most places, and Nepal a quarter hour.
One country can have more than one clock. The United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Australia do, among others. For those the list names a city.
"Eastern" on a letter means the clock in New York. An office hour given as Eastern, Central, Mountain or Pacific time is in the United States group of the list.

What this page does not do

It does not know if anyone is awake, open or answering. It knows no office hours and no holidays.
It does not know where you are. It starts from the time zone this device is set to, and you can pick another.
It is only as right as this device. If the device's clock is wrong, or its list of time zones is old, the answer can be off. Governments change their clock rules, sometimes with little warning. On October 10, 2026 we compared one browser with version 2026c of the database, for 2026 and 2027: that browser still had older rules for two of the 89 places, Morocco and Canada (Vancouver). The page puts a warning by the answer when it sees that on your device.
For a date far ahead, it uses the rules as they stand today.
It has 89 places, not every town. If a country is listed with a city and the person lives far from it, ask them what their clock says.
It does not report a change that lasts less than half a day, like the one hour on the night two places both move their clocks.
It takes dates from 2000 to 2099.
It keeps nothing. To keep an answer, write it down.

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A count, not advice. This tool reads a clock and counts hours. It does not know your deadline, your appointment or the office you are calling: if a time matters, ask the office which clock it means. If anyone is in danger, call 911. If things are so heavy that you are thinking about ending your life, call or text 988 (in the U.S.), or open Get help now.

The tool and the wording around it were written with AI (Claude) for Scarlet Beast (our AI policy); the clock rules are the ones on your device. There is no AI inside this tool: it only reads the clock and counts. It has been checked by a program, not yet by people using it for a real call. It keeps nothing, so it has no line on My data on this device. Also in Spanish: ¿Qué hora es allá? Found a mistake? Email [email protected].