Find the best meeting time across time zones

Popular time zone pairs

One click loads the pair with standard working hours. Swap in your own cities from there.

• New York ↔ LondonUS mornings are London afternoons, a 5-hour spread.
• San Francisco ↔ LondonA narrow window: early Pacific mornings before the UK signs off.
• New York ↔ MumbaiUS mornings reach India's early evening, 9.5 hours ahead.
• San Francisco ↔ SydneyLate Pacific afternoon is Sydney's next morning.
• London ↔ SingaporeLondon mornings land in Singapore's late afternoon.
• New York ↔ Tokyo13 hours apart. Early US mornings meet Tokyo's evening.

Also: Los Angeles ↔ London, Chicago ↔ London, Toronto ↔ London, New York ↔ Paris, New York ↔ Singapore, New York ↔ Sydney, San Francisco ↔ Tokyo, San Francisco ↔ Singapore, London ↔ Mumbai, London ↔ Dubai, London ↔ Hong Kong, London ↔ Sydney, Los Angeles ↔ Sydney

Time zone meeting questions

How does the scoring work?

Each 15-minute slot of the day is scored for every participant: inside working hours counts fully, awake-but-off-hours counts partially (early evenings are cheap, late evenings cost more and more, and the last half hour before someone's workday counts nearly as work), and sleep is graded by depth — putting anyone in the dead of night (midnight–6am local) counts strongly against the slot. The suggestions are the highest-scoring non-overlapping windows.

Does it handle daylight saving time and half-hour zones?

Yes. Cities map to real IANA time zones and all math runs through the browser's own time zone database, so DST switches, India's +5:30, and Nepal's +5:45 all come out right for the specific day you pick.

Can I search by abbreviation or offset?

Yes. Type PST, EST, IST, CEST, or an offset like UTC+8 or +5:30 and you'll get the matching cities. Off-season forms work too: PST finds Pacific time even in summer, when it's technically PDT.

Is anything uploaded?

No. City search, scoring, and the map all run in your browser. There's no account, no server call, and nothing stored.

Can I share a plan with my team?

Yes. The cities, working hours, day, and meeting length are all encoded in the page URL. Hit Share link and send it, and your team sees exactly what you see.

What's the best time to meet between the US and Europe?

The reliable overlap is the US morning and the European afternoon: roughly 8–11 AM Eastern is 2–5 PM in most of Western Europe (and 1–4 PM in the UK). West Coast teams get a narrower window of about 8–9 AM Pacific before Europe signs off.

What's the best time to meet between the US and India?

India is 9.5 hours ahead of Eastern time (10.5 ahead during US winter), so early US mornings are India's evening: 8–10 AM Eastern lands at 5:30–7:30 PM in Mumbai or Bangalore, which is inside a normal extended workday on both ends.

How do I schedule fairly when there's no good overlap?

Some pairs, like California and Central Europe or New York and Tokyo, have almost no shared working hours. Keep those meetings short, rotate which side takes the awkward slot, and use the amber windows here (someone off-hours, nobody asleep) rather than always burdening the same region.

How the scoring works

Every 15-minute slot of the day gets a score for each person on the call, based on their local clock and working hours:

• Inside working hours counts fully.
• Awake but off the clock counts partially, and the two ends of the day are shaped differently. The evening starts cheap — 6 PM after work is easy to give up — but the cost accelerates toward bedtime, so 9:30 PM is already a real ask and 10:30 PM nearly a lost cause. Mornings ramp the other way: 7 AM is a genuine sacrifice, but the last half hour before your usual start is treated as being at your desk a little early — nearly as good as working hours.
• Together those curves decide who bends. If one city's evening is still early, nobody else is asked to get up before work — but once it slides past 9 PM, shaving someone else's pre-work morning becomes the cheaper trade, and the best time shifts earlier.
• Asleep is graded by depth. Just after bedtime or just before waking counts a sliver; the dead of night (midnight–6 AM local) counts against the slot — one person there cancels out one person fully at work, so a majority at their desks barely carries a time that has someone in the void.

A meeting is scored by its worst moment for each person across the full duration, and the suggestions are the highest-scoring non-overlapping windows. Daylight saving shifts are computed from each city's IANA time zone rules for the actual date you pick.