Current Time in New York, United States — Live Clock

Time zone facts for New York

IANA time zone: America/New_York
Standard offset: UTC−5
Daylight saving: observed — the offset moves to UTC−4 while DST is active (the live clock above already reflects today's status).
January / July offset: UTC−5 / UTC−4
Offset as of September 2026: UTC−4 — daylight saving in effect
Next clock change: clocks go back 1 hour on Sunday, November 1, 2026 (local date), moving the offset from UTC−4 to UTC−5

How New York's offset moves through the year

New York keeps two offsets: UTC−5 in January and UTC−4 in July. The clocks move between them twice a year, and each move changes the difference between New York and every place that does not move at the same instant. As of September 2026, the offset is UTC−4, so daylight saving is in effect.

The coming cycle, derived from the IANA time zone database as of September 2026: the clocks next go back 1 hour on Sunday, November 1, 2026 (New York local date), taking the offset from UTC−4 to UTC−5. The change after that comes 133 days later, on Sunday, March 14, 2027, when the clocks go forward 1 hour and the offset returns from UTC−5 to UTC−4. Those 133 days are the standard-time part of the year for New York.

Read those two dates alongside the partner's dates for any city you work with. If the partner does not observe daylight saving, the gap to it changes on exactly these two dates. If it does, the gap changes only where the two calendars disagree — not at all when both sides switch at the same instants, otherwise on every date where one side has shifted and the other has not yet. The table below works that out for the reference cities.

Set against the reference cities, as of September 2026: New York's next change comes 7 days after London's (Sunday, October 25, 2026, London date). Tokyo has no change of its own scheduled within the next 15 months, so its gap to New York moves on New York's dates alone. Which city moves first is what shapes each of the mismatch windows set out below.

The gap to London and Tokyo across the year

The differences below were computed at build time by scanning the coming twelve months of the IANA time zone database for each pair, locating every instant at which either city changes its clocks, and reading the gap on each side of it. "As of September 2026" is the gap today; "over the year" is the full range the pair takes before the same month comes round again, from New York's point of view.

New York's difference from each reference city, as of September 2026. Derived from the IANA time zone database at build time.
Reference	New York is, as of September 2026	Over the coming year	Why
London	5 hours behind	4 hours behind to 5 hours behind	both change clocks, on different dates
Tokyo	13 hours behind	13 hours behind to 14 hours behind	only New York changes its clocks

Neither gap holds still for the whole year. The mechanism in each case is set out below, with the exact instants at which the gap moves.

New York and London

As of September 2026, New York is 5 hours behind London. Both New York and London change their clocks, but not at the same instants. Between one side's transition and the other's, only one shift has happened, so the gap briefly holds a value it holds only inside these mismatch windows. The gap changes 4 times in the coming twelve months; the briefest such window lasts 7 days, from October 24, 2026 to November 1, 2026 (New York dates), during which New York is 4 hours behind London.

From Saturday, October 24, 2026 at 9:00 PM (New York time), when London changes clocks: New York is 4 hours behind London.
From Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 1:00 AM (New York time), when New York changes clocks: New York is 5 hours behind London.
From Sunday, March 14, 2027 at 3:00 AM (New York time), when New York changes clocks: New York is 4 hours behind London.
From Saturday, March 27, 2027 at 9:00 PM (New York time), when London changes clocks: New York is 5 hours behind London.

Each of those windows is opened by one city's change and closed by the other's. The first, from October 24, 2026 to November 1, 2026 (New York dates), opens when London's clocks go back and closes 7 days later when New York's go back. In between, New York is on daylight time and London on standard time, so New York is 4 hours behind London against 5 hours behind on either side of it. The second, from March 14, 2027 to March 27, 2027 (New York dates), opens when New York's clocks go forward and closes 14 days later when London's go forward. In between, New York is on daylight time and London on standard time, so New York is 4 hours behind London against 5 hours behind on either side of it. Which city moves first differs from window to window, and the longest of them lasts 14 days.

New York and Tokyo

As of September 2026, New York is 13 hours behind Tokyo. New York changes its clocks for daylight saving and Tokyo does not. Each New York transition therefore moves the gap by the full size of that shift, and nothing ever moves it back except the next New York transition. The gap changes twice in the coming twelve months, always on New York's dates — Tokyo's calendar plays no part.

From Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 1:00 AM (New York time), when New York changes clocks: New York is 14 hours behind Tokyo.
From Sunday, March 14, 2027 at 3:00 AM (New York time), when New York changes clocks: New York is 13 hours behind Tokyo.

Ranked by how many of the 365 scanned days each gap spends at its most common value, from New York's point of view: London 344 (5 hours behind) and Tokyo 232 (13 hours behind). The two kinds of movement are not alike. The gap to London changes 4 times in the year yet is away from its usual value for only 21 days in total, because each departure ends as soon as the other city catches up. The gap to Tokyo changes only twice, but each change stands until the next one, so it spends 133 days away from its most common value.

Working hours that overlap

Assume a 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM working day in New York and the same in each reference city. The overlap is then a plain consequence of the gap, and it changes whenever the gap does — so where a pair takes more than one gap during the year, both readings are given. As of September 2026:

London: 3 hours — 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM in New York, which is 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM in London. When New York is 4 hours behind London — the rest of the year — the overlap is 4 hours — 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM in New York, which is 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM in London.
Tokyo: none at any gap the pair takes during the year — a 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM day in New York never meets a 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM day in Tokyo.

The 9-to-5 window is a convention, not a fact about anyone's hours. The Meeting Planner takes each participant's actual working hours and evaluates the overlap for the specific date, so a slot chosen in one season is still checked against the other side's clock in the next.

New York time — frequently asked questions

What time zone is New York in?

New York uses the IANA time zone America/New_York. Its standard offset is UTC−5, moving to UTC−4 while daylight saving time is active.

Does New York observe daylight saving time?

Yes. The offset is UTC−5 in January and UTC−4 in July. As of September 2026, daylight saving is in effect and the offset is UTC−4.

When do the clocks next change in New York?

As of September 2026, the next scheduled change is: clocks go back 1 hour on Sunday, November 1, 2026 (local date), moving the offset from UTC−4 to UTC−5.

How does New York time compare with UTC and London?

As of September 2026, New York is on UTC−4 and 5 hours behind London. These differences shift whenever either side changes its clocks for daylight saving.

How far ahead of or behind London is New York over the year?

As of September 2026, New York is 5 hours behind London. Over the coming twelve months the difference ranges from 4 hours behind to 5 hours behind, changing 4 times, because both cities change their clocks, but not at the same instants. The dates of each change are listed on this page under "New York and London".

Why does a standing meeting between New York and Tokyo move by 1 hour during the year?

Because New York changes its clocks for daylight saving and Tokyo does not. A meeting fixed at one wall-clock time in Tokyo lands 1 hour earlier or later on New York's clock after each New York transition, and a meeting fixed in New York does the same on Tokyo's clock. As of September 2026, the next such change is on Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 1:00 AM (New York time). Decide which city's calendar the meeting is anchored to, and expect the other side to move twice in the coming year.

Business-hours overlap

When it is 9:00 AM in New York (as of September 2026), it is 2:00 PM in London and 10:00 PM in Tokyo. These readings shift when any of the cities changes its clocks — the Meeting Planner computes the overlap for your exact date.

Zone-to-zone converter pages for New York

EST — Eastern Standard Time (North America). New York is the anchor city for EST on this site; the same zone is written EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) while daylight saving is active, and in everyday use "EST" means New York's time, whichever of EST/EDT is in force. The same letters also mean: Australian Eastern Standard Time (usually written AEST). Each converter page states which meaning it uses.

IST to EST — India and the US East Coast.
PST to EST — The two coasts of the United States.
CST to EST — US Central and US Eastern.
MST to EST — US Mountain and US Eastern.
GMT to EST — London and New York.
CET to EST — Central Europe and the US East Coast.
UTC to EST — Server time and the US East Coast.
AEST to EST — Sydney and New York.
JST to EST — Tokyo and New York.
GST to EST — Dubai and New York.

Of the 10 corridors anchored on EST, as of September 2026: 4 lead to a zone that keeps one offset all year (IST, UTC, JST, and GST), so those gaps move only on New York's own dates; 3 lead to a zone whose switches fall within hours of New York's (PST, CST, and MST), so the gap leaves its usual value for at most 3 hours at a time; 3 lead to a zone that switches on different dates (GMT, CET, and AEST), opening mismatch windows of up to 29 days.

Convert a time for New York

Planning a call or a deadline? Use the Time Zone Converter to translate any date and time to or from New York — DST-correct for that exact date — or line up working hours side by side in the Meeting Planner. For the corridors people search for by abbreviation — IST to EST, IST to PST, IST to GMT and the rest — the zone-to-zone converter pages explain, pair by pair, whether the gap moves during the year and when.

Time in other major cities

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