The Global Clock is a free tool for seeing what time it is anywhere on Earth — and for making sense of the time zones that so often trip us up. It began with a simple frustration: coordinating with people in other parts of the world is needlessly hard, and most time-zone tools are either ugly, confusing, or buried in ads.
We wanted something you would actually enjoy opening: a living globe you can spin, honest live clocks, and tools that answer the real questions — what time is it there right now? and when can we all meet?
What you can do here
- Interactive globe — spin a real map of the Earth and hover any city to read its local time, with a live day-and-night shadow showing where the sun is up.
- World cities — a searchable directory of 200+ cities with live local times, filterable by region.
- Clock board — pin the cities you care about and watch their times side by side.
- Meeting planner — line up several zones and find the hours that work for everyone.
- Learn — plain-English guides to how time zones, UTC, and daylight saving actually work.
How we keep it accurate
Every time on this site is computed live in your own browser using its built-in time-zone database — the same standard data your operating system uses. That means daylight saving changes and regional offsets are applied automatically and correctly, without us having to guess or maintain a list by hand. Nothing is sent to a server to tell the time; your device already knows.
Free to use
The Global Clock is free. To keep it that way and cover its running costs, we display advertising on some pages, clearly labeled and kept out of the way of the tools themselves. You can read exactly how we handle data and cookies in our Privacy Policy.
Have feedback or a city to add?
We'd genuinely like to hear it — suggestions shape what we build next.