One meeting, nine clocks
Enter a meeting time in your own time zone and this planner shows that same moment in nine world cities at once — each with its local time, the day of the week it lands on, and a plain rating of whether it falls inside a normal 9-to-5 working day. It is the fastest way to answer the only question that matters in distributed teams: "if we meet then, who is being asked to get up at 3 a.m.?" Daylight saving rules are applied for every city on your chosen date, so the table is right even in the awkward weeks when one country has changed its clocks and another has not.
How to find a fair time
There is no perfect slot across 12+ hours of time zones — optimise for “early/late” and rotate the pain. The workable bands are wider than 9–17: most people accept 7:00–19:00 occasionally. Use the ratings to find slots where nobody is in the deep-red "outside work hours" — for New York + London + Mumbai, around 9:00 New York time works — London is mid-afternoon and Mumbai is at the end of its working day; adding Sydney or Tokyo to the same call almost always breaks someone, which is why global teams rotate the inconvenient slot week by week or split the meeting into two regional calls. The planner makes that trade-off visible in one glance instead of nine separate conversions.
Beyond the nine cities
The nine cities cover the major business hubs, but the meeting's own home zone can be any of 22 zones in the list. For a one-off conversion between two specific places, the Time Zone Converter gives the focused answer, and if the meeting is days away, the Countdown Timer can count down to it in your local time.
Worked example
A meeting at 12:00 in New York on October 12, 2026 is 09:00 in Los Angeles, 17:00 in London, 21:30 in Mumbai — and 01:00 the next day in Tokyo and 03:00 in Sydney. Los Angeles and New York land in work hours, London and Berlin are early/late, and the Pacific side gets the pain.
How to use this calculator
- Enter the meeting date and your local start time.
- Select your own time zone.
- Read the table: every city's local time, its day, and the working-hours rating.
- Adjust your start time until the fewest cities sit outside work hours.
The weeks when everything shifts
Twice a year the northern and southern hemispheres change clocks in opposite directions, and North America and Europe change on different weekends. For roughly three weeks each spring and autumn, familiar offsets are wrong by an hour. Because this planner looks up every city's offset for the exact date, those weeks are handled — but be wary of recurring calendar invites created months earlier by software that guessed.