Timezone Meeting Planner & World Clock

## What This World Clock and Meeting Planner Does This tool combines a live world clock for 38 time zones, a meeting time planner with a drag-to-explore slider, and a precise UTC time zone converter — all in one page, free, no signup, no ads. It is designed for distributed teams, remote workers, international project managers, and anyone scheduling calls across multiple regions. ## Find the Best Meeting Time Across Time Zones The meeting planner solves the most common distributed-team problem: finding a time that works for everyone when participants are spread across continents. Drag the slider to test a candidate time, and the row for each city instantly recolors — green where the local time is normal business hours, yellow where it is early morning or late evening, and gray where it would be the middle of the night. You can scan dozens of zones at once and see overlap windows immediately, instead of doing arithmetic in your head for each participant. For teams that span very wide ranges — say San Francisco, London, and Singapore — there is often no time that is convenient for everyone. The planner makes the unavoidable trade-off visible so you can pick the least-bad slot and rotate over time. ## Convert Between Time Zones The dedicated converter handles point-in-time conversions: "what is 3pm New York on Thursday in Tokyo?" Pick the source zone, date, and time, then pick the destination zone. The result updates as you change any field, and the tool accounts for daylight saving time transitions automatically. The converter supports half-hour zones (IST, Newfoundland), 45-minute zones (Nepal, Chatham Islands), and the standard UTC offsets. You can also use it to translate ambiguous abbreviations — "CST" can mean Central Standard Time (UTC−6) in North America or China Standard Time (UTC+8); selecting the specific city removes the ambiguity. ## Live World Clocks for 38 Time Zones The world clock view shows current local time for major cities in every populated region: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, Anchorage, Honolulu, Toronto, Mexico City, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Moscow, Istanbul, Dubai, Riyadh, Tehran, Mumbai, Karachi, Dhaka, Bangkok, Jakarta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Auckland, plus UTC reference. Each clock indicates whether the location is currently in normal business hours so you can tell at a glance whether to message someone now or wait. ## Common Use Cases - **Distributed engineering teams** scheduling daily stand-ups, sprint planning, or incident response calls across 3+ continents. - **Sales teams** booking demos with international prospects without misquoting a time. - **Customer success and support** coordinating handoffs between regional follow-the-sun coverage. - **Conference and event planners** finding a session time that maximizes live attendance across target regions. - **Remote workers** coordinating with coworkers, family, or friends in other time zones. - **Job seekers** confirming the time zone of an interview invite before showing up at the wrong hour. ## Frequently Confused Time Zone Abbreviations CST is ambiguous (Central Standard Time North America vs. China Standard Time). IST means Indian Standard Time, Irish Standard Time, or Israel Standard Time depending on context. AEST and AEDT are different (the latter is daylight time, one hour ahead). When sharing a meeting time, prefer either a city name ("3pm New York") or a UTC offset ("19:00 UTC") rather than ambiguous letter codes. ## Daylight Saving Time Considerations DST does not start and end on the same dates in every country. The US and Canada switch on the second Sunday in March and first Sunday in November. The EU switches on the last Sunday in March and last Sunday in October. Australia and New Zealand switch in opposite months because of the southern hemisphere. India, China, Japan, and most of Asia do not observe DST. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and most of Africa do not observe DST. The world clock and meeting planner here account for these differences automatically — you don't need to remember them.