Find a meeting time that works for every city — instantly.
ZoneShift is the time zone reference built for remote teams scheduling cross-border meetings. Compare local times in 600 cities, plan calls across continents, and stop guessing whether 4 PM in Berlin is a polite hour for your colleagues in Manila.
Major cities right now
Live local times for the cities your team most often coordinates with. Click any card for a full city profile, including UTC offset, daylight saving status and recommended meeting overlaps against the world's major hubs.
Shanghai
Beijing
Shenzhen
Guangzhou
Kinshasa
Istanbul
Lagos
Ho Chi Minh City
Chengdu
Lahore
Mumbai
São Paulo
Compare any two hubs in one click
Permanent comparison pages for the world's busiest remote-work corridors — color-coded overlap calendars, recommended meeting windows, and an embedded converter.
Why teams use ZoneShift
Real IANA data
Every offset, abbreviation and DST transition comes from the IANA Time Zone Database — the same data your operating system uses — so what you see here matches what your team's calendars do.
Built for remote work
Most converters were designed for travellers. ZoneShift is built for engineers, recruiters and operations teams who run weekly standups across four continents and need a tool that thinks the way they do.
Hundreds of cities
We track 600 world cities with population above 100,000, sourced from public datasets. Every city gets a dedicated page with full scheduling context.
No sign-up, no tracking
ZoneShift is a static reference. We don't ask for an email and we don't follow you around the web. Bookmark a comparison and it loads instantly next time.
Browse by region
If your team works across borders, start with one of the time-zone hubs below. Each link opens a full breakdown of the cities in that zone, the countries it covers and the current offset from UTC.
America/Los_Angeles
America/Tijuana
America/Phoenix
America/Mexico_City
America/Ciudad_Juarez
America/Edmonton
America/Merida
America/Monterrey
America/Guatemala
America/Managua
America/Lima
America/Bogota
From the scheduling guide
Practical, opinionated writing for managers running distributed teams.
Remote team scheduling fundamentals: a field guide for distributed managers
The core ideas every distributed manager should internalise before they touch a calendar invite — anchored teams, follow-the-sun, async-by-default, and the cost of every synchronous meeting that crosses a coastline.
FoundationsFollow-the-sun vs anchored overlap: choosing the right shape for your remote team
Most distributed teams default to "everyone joins one all-hands" without realising that the underlying scheduling shape is a strategic choice. We compare the two dominant models and the kinds of work each one supports.
OperationsDesigning a fair meeting rotation when no single time works for everyone
When your team spans three or more continents, no single weekly slot is fair to everyone. A documented rotation, applied honestly, is the difference between a team that scales and a team that quietly resents whoever runs the calendar.
OperationsStandup times across three continents: what actually works
A practical breakdown of the standup patterns we have seen succeed in teams spanning the Americas, Europe and Asia — and the patterns that look elegant on paper but quietly burn the team out.
Time zonesDaylight saving survival guide for international teams
Twice a year, an hour quietly disappears or appears in your team calendar. If your scheduling tools and your team conventions are not built to handle it, you will lose at least one important meeting per transition.
Time zonesIANA zones vs UTC offsets: why the difference matters in practice
Treating "UTC+1" and "Europe/Berlin" as interchangeable is one of the most common bugs in scheduling tools. We explain why the IANA database is the only correct way to store and reason about time zones.