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Time in UTC

Coordinated Universal Time · UTC · latitude 0.00°

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UTC never changes its clocks

UTC stays on UTC+00:00 all year round. This is worth being careful about rather than relaxed about: the gap between UTC and a city that does observe daylight saving still moves twice a year, because the other end moved. A recurring call can drift by an hour without anything changing here at all.

Time difference from UTC

Where a range is shown, the gap genuinely changes during the year. That is not rounding or hedging — it is two governments moving their clocks on different weekends.

Time difference between UTC and other cities
CityDifference nowAcross the year
London1 hour ahead0 / +1h
New York4 hours behind−5h / −4h
Los Angeles7 hours behind−8h / −7h
Chicago5 hours behind−6h / −5h
Toronto4 hours behind−5h / −4h
Paris2 hours ahead+1h / +2h
Berlin2 hours ahead+1h / +2h
Dubai4 hours aheadconstant
Mumbai5 hours 30 minutes aheadconstant
Singapore8 hours aheadconstant
Hong Kong8 hours aheadconstant
Tokyo9 hours aheadconstant
Sydney10 hours ahead+10h / +11h
Auckland12 hours ahead+12h / +13h
São Paulo3 hours behindconstant

Daylight in UTC through the year

From about 12.1 hours in August to 12.1 hours in January. This is the part a plain clock leaves out: 17:00 is a bright evening in one month and long dark in another.

Sunrise, sunset and daylight length in UTC, on the 21st of each month
MonthSunriseSunsetDaylight
January06:0718:1512h 8m
February06:1118:1812h 7m
March06:0518:1212h 7m
April05:5618:0312h 7m
May05:5318:0012h 7m
June05:5818:0612h 8m
July06:0318:1012h 7m
August06:0118:0712h 6m
September05:5017:5712h 7m
October05:4217:4812h 6m
November05:4317:5012h 7m
December05:5518:0212h 7m

Daylight length is accurate. The clock times of sunrise and sunset assume each city sits at the centre of its time zone, which can put them up to about an hour and a quarter out for places near a zone's edge — Madrid being the standard example. Day length is unaffected.

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Questions

About time in UTC

What time zone is UTC in?

UTC uses the IANA time zone UTC, a fixed UTC+00:00 with no daylight saving.

Does UTC observe daylight saving time?

No. UTC stays on UTC+00:00 all year. That does not mean the gap between UTC and other cities is fixed, though: when a city that does observe daylight saving changes its clocks, the difference between you and them moves even though nothing changed here.

Why does the time difference to UTC keep changing?

Because the two places do not change their clocks on the same weekend, and in opposite hemispheres they change in opposite directions. London is a clear example: it sits the same time, then 1 hour ahead across the year rather than one fixed distance.

How much daylight does UTC get?

Around 12.1 hours at the longest, in January, and about 12.1 hours at the shortest, in August. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from UTC's latitude of 0.00° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.