Paris time zone and office-hour overlap
When Paris, New York and Los Angeles are all at work.
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Different hours for each city
- UTC+1Central European Standard Time, January
- UTC+2Central European Summer Time, July
- Europe/ParisIANA time zone name
- 32other listed cities on the same clock all year
Clock changes
Paris moves its clocks forward one hour on the last Sunday in March at 2:00 am local time and back on the last Sunday in October at 3:00 am, switching between Central European Standard Time (UTC+1) and Central European Summer Time (UTC+2).
Next change, as of when this page was built (2026-10-20): back on Sun 25 October 2026, from UTC+2 to UTC+1.
Sun and clock
At 2.4° east, the sun is highest over Paris at about 12:51 pm on the winter clock — 51 minutes after noon, because the clock runs ahead of the sun.
In mid-January the sun rises at about 8:39 am and sets at about 5:20 pm — 8 hours 45 minutes of daylight.
In mid-July the sun rises at about 6:03 am and sets at about 9:50 pm — 15 hours 45 minutes of daylight.
On a January weekday, 48 of the listed cities share the whole 9-to-5 day with Paris, 199 share at least two hours and 38 share no office time at all; on a July weekday the counts are 48, 206 and 39. The furthest away on the clock in January is Auckland (New Zealand), 12 hours ahead.
Of the 268 cities in this planner, 92 are behind Paris in January, 48 show the same time and 127 are ahead of it.
Cities on the same clock
All year, Paris shows the same time as Berlin (Germany), Madrid (Spain), Rome (Italy), Hamburg (Germany), Budapest (Hungary), Warsaw (Poland), Vienna (Austria), Barcelona (Spain), Stockholm (Sweden), Munich (Germany) and 22 more.
Only in January (northern winter) it matches Kinshasa (DR Congo), Lagos (Nigeria), Casablanca (Morocco), Luanda (Angola), Abuja (Nigeria), Algiers (Algeria), Brazzaville (Congo), Rabat (Morocco) and 8 more — they change their clocks on different dates or not at all.
Only in July it matches Johannesburg (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Lusaka (Zambia), Pretoria (South Africa), Khartoum (Sudan), Harare (Zimbabwe), Tripoli (Libya), Maputo (Mozambique) and 8 more.
Office hours shared with 11 business cities
Counting a 9-to-5 day, Monday to Friday, in both cities: Paris shares two hours or more with New York, London, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore and São Paulo, and no office time at all with Los Angeles, Sydney and Auckland.
| City | Gap, Jan / Jul | Shared, Jan / Jul | At 9 am |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | −6 / −6 h | 2 / 2 h | 3:00 am |
| Los Angeles | −9 / −9 h | 0 / 0 h | 12:00 am |
| Chicago | −7 / −7 h | 1 / 1 h | 2:00 am |
| London | −1 / −1 h | 7 / 7 h | 8:00 am |
| Dubai | +3 / +2 h | 5 / 6 h | 12:00 pm |
| Mumbai | +4½ / +3½ h | 3½ / 4½ h | 1:30 pm |
| Singapore | +7 / +6 h | 1 / 2 h | 4:00 pm |
| Tokyo | +8 / +7 h | 0 / 1 h | 5:00 pm |
| Sydney | +10 / +8 h | 0 / 0 h | 7:00 pm |
| Auckland | +12 / +10 h | 0 / 0 h | 9:00 pm |
| São Paulo | −4 / −5 h | 4 / 3 h | 5:00 am |
Time differences with Paris
- New York and ParisParis ahead by 6 hours · 2 hours of shared office time
- Los Angeles and ParisParis ahead by 9 hours · no shared office hours
- Sydney and ParisParis behind by 8–10 hours · no shared office hours
- Chicago and ParisParis ahead by 7 hours · 1 hour of shared office time
City names, coordinates and time zone assignments: GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (selection and renaming of some cities by this site). Clock times are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database. Sources and limits.