Time Zone Converter & Meeting Planner — Compare Cities
Convert a time across cities with DST handled, and find meeting hours that suit everyone. Shareable link.
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This time zone converter shows one moment in as many cities as you like: pick a date and time in Toronto and see it in Vancouver, London, Mumbai and Tokyo at once, with each city's UTC offset and abbreviation and a +1 day marker when the date changes. Daylight saving time is handled by your browser's own time zone database, so a call booked for November after the clocks change converts correctly, and if you pick a time that does not exist or happens twice on a DST change day, it tells you.
Below the converter, the meeting planner lays out every hour of the chosen day across all your zones, shades each city's working hours and highlights the hours when everyone is at work. Click any hour to convert it. The page address updates as you go, so you can send the link to someone and they see the same cities and time. Search covers popular city names and every IANA zone, such as America/St_Johns or Asia/Kathmandu.
How to use
- Choose the zone your time is in, then pick the date and time (or click Now).
- Add cities with the search box; remove any you don't need, or click “Use as base” to start from another city.
- Scroll to the meeting planner, set the working hours, and look for the dark columns where everyone overlaps.
- Click an hour to convert it, then copy the times or the shareable link.
Frequently asked questions
What is the time difference between Toronto and Vancouver?
Three hours: Vancouver is three hours behind Toronto all year, because both change their clocks for daylight saving time on the same dates. 9:00 in Toronto is 6:00 in Vancouver. Toronto is on Eastern Time (EST, UTC−5, or EDT, UTC−4 in summer) and Vancouver on Pacific Time (PST, UTC−8, or PDT, UTC−7).
When does daylight saving time change in Canada and the US?
In most of both countries clocks go forward one hour at 2:00 a.m. local time on the second Sunday of March and back one hour at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday of November. Most of Saskatchewan stays on Central Standard Time all year, as do Yukon (on permanent UTC−7) and parts of BC and Quebec; in the US, Hawaii and most of Arizona don't observe DST.
Why is the time difference to London different in March?
Because Europe and North America change their clocks on different dates. The UK moves to summer time on the last Sunday of March and back on the last Sunday of October, while Canada and the US change on the second Sunday of March and first Sunday of November. For two to three weeks in March and about a week around the start of November, Toronto is four hours behind London instead of the usual five. Picking the actual date of your meeting is what makes the conversion correct.
What does a +1 day or −1 day next to a time mean?
That the converted time falls on the next or previous calendar day compared with the time you entered. In summer, 18:00 on Monday in Toronto is 7:00 on Tuesday in Tokyo, marked +1 day.
Is EST the same as ET?
Not quite. ET (Eastern Time) is the zone; EST is its winter standard time, UTC−5, and EDT its summer daylight time, UTC−4. Writing “3 p.m. EST” for a meeting in July is technically an hour off. Using a city name or ET, or sending a link like the one this tool makes, avoids the ambiguity.
Does the shareable link store anything?
No. The cities, date, time and working hours are written into the page address itself (for example ?z=America/Toronto,Europe/London&t=2026-10-20T09:00). Nothing is sent to a server or saved; whoever opens the link sees the same view, converted into the zones listed.
Canadian time zones
• Newfoundland Time (St. John's): UTC−3:30, daylight UTC−2:30. One of the few half-hour offsets in North America.
• Atlantic Time (Halifax, Moncton, Charlottetown): UTC−4, daylight UTC−3.
• Eastern Time (Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Iqaluit): UTC−5, daylight UTC−4.
• Central Time (Winnipeg): UTC−6, daylight UTC−5. Most of Saskatchewan (Regina, Saskatoon) uses UTC−6 all year.
• Mountain Time (Calgary, Edmonton, Yellowknife): UTC−7, daylight UTC−6.
• Pacific Time (Vancouver, Victoria): UTC−8, daylight UTC−7. Yukon stays on UTC−7 all year.
Scheduling across time zones
Toronto and London share roughly the morning of the North American workday: 9:00 to 12:00 in Toronto is 14:00 to 17:00 in London for most of the year. Toronto and India (UTC+5:30, no DST) barely overlap in standard business hours, so meetings land early morning in Toronto and evening in India. Vancouver to Europe has almost no overlap, which is why the planner shows a light grid when you add them together.
When nobody's working hours overlap, rotate the inconvenient slot rather than always giving it to the same city, and write the time with a city or a link instead of an abbreviation.
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