US Time Zone Map
An interactive map of every US time zone with the live local time in each. Tap a zone — or search a city, state, or ZIP — to see its current time, UTC offset, and whether daylight saving is in effect right now.
Arizona (gold, hatched) stays on Mountain Standard Time all year and does not observe daylight saving — except the Navajo Nation, which does. Hawaii also does not observe DST. Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, via timezone-boundary-builder (evansiroky), ODbL v1.0. Boundaries are OSM-approximate, not a legal survey.
The United States has six standard time zones: Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific across the contiguous states, plus Alaska and Hawaii–Aleutian for the two non-contiguous states. Most of the country moves its clocks for daylight saving time from March to November — but Arizona and Hawaii do not.
US time zones at a glance
| Time zone | Standard | Daylight | DST? | Example states |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern | UTC−5 | UTC−4 | Yes | New York, Florida (peninsula), Ohio, Georgia, the Carolinas, Michigan |
| Central | UTC−6 | UTC−5 | Yes | Texas, Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, Tennessee (west), Florida panhandle |
| Mountain | UTC−7 | UTC−6 | Yes | Colorado, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Idaho (south) |
| Mountain — Arizona | UTC−7 | UTC−7 (no DST) | No* | Arizona (except the Navajo Nation) |
| Pacific | UTC−8 | UTC−7 | Yes | California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada |
| Alaska | UTC−9 | UTC−8 | Yes | Most of Alaska |
| Hawaii–Aleutian | UTC−10 | UTC−10 (Hawaii, no DST) | No (Hawaii) | Hawaii, western Aleutian Islands |
* Arizona keeps Mountain Standard Time all year (no DST), except the Navajo Nation.
States by time zone
All 50 states and DC with their time zone(s). 13 states are split across two zones (flagged 2 zones); a †marks the two states that do not observe daylight saving. Each state’s zones are derived from the timezone-boundary-builder boundaries via geo-tz, not hand-entered.
| State | Time zone(s) |
|---|---|
| Alabama | Central |
| Alaska | Hawaii–AleutianAlaska2 zones |
| Arizona † | Mountain (no DST) |
| Arkansas | Central |
| California | Pacific |
| Colorado | Mountain |
| Connecticut | Eastern |
| Delaware | Eastern |
| District of Columbia | Eastern |
| Florida | CentralEastern2 zones |
| Georgia | Eastern |
| Hawaii † | Hawaii–Aleutian |
| Idaho | PacificMountain2 zones |
| Illinois | Central |
| Indiana | CentralEastern2 zones |
| Iowa | Central |
| Kansas | MountainCentral2 zones |
| Kentucky | CentralEastern2 zones |
| Louisiana | Central |
| Maine | Eastern |
| Maryland | Eastern |
| Massachusetts | Eastern |
| Michigan | CentralEastern2 zones |
| Minnesota | Central |
| Mississippi | Central |
| Missouri | Central |
| Montana | Mountain |
| Nebraska | MountainCentral2 zones |
| Nevada | Pacific |
| New Hampshire | Eastern |
| New Jersey | Eastern |
| New Mexico | Mountain |
| New York | Eastern |
| North Carolina | Eastern |
| North Dakota | MountainCentral2 zones |
| Ohio | Eastern |
| Oklahoma | Central |
| Oregon | PacificMountain2 zones |
| Pennsylvania | Eastern |
| Rhode Island | Eastern |
| South Carolina | Eastern |
| South Dakota | MountainCentral2 zones |
| Tennessee | CentralEastern2 zones |
| Texas | MountainCentral2 zones |
| Utah | Mountain |
| Vermont | Eastern |
| Virginia | Eastern |
| Washington | Pacific |
| West Virginia | Eastern |
| Wisconsin | Central |
| Wyoming | Mountain |
† Arizona and Hawaii do not observe daylight saving time (in Arizona, the Navajo Nation is the exception). Split states list their zones west-to-east.
Largest US cities by time zone
The largest US cities and the zone each sits in — note Phoenix (no DST) and El Paso, which is on Mountain Time while the rest of Texas is Central.
| City | Time zone |
|---|---|
| New York, NY | Eastern |
| Los Angeles, CA | Pacific |
| Chicago, IL | Central |
| Houston, TX | Central |
| Phoenix, AZ | Mountain (no DST) |
| Philadelphia, PA | Eastern |
| San Antonio, TX | Central |
| San Diego, CA | Pacific |
| Dallas, TX | Central |
| San Jose, CA | Pacific |
| Austin, TX | Central |
| Jacksonville, FL | Eastern |
| Fort Worth, TX | Central |
| Columbus, OH | Eastern |
| Charlotte, NC | Eastern |
| San Francisco, CA | Pacific |
| Indianapolis, IN | Eastern |
| Seattle, WA | Pacific |
| Denver, CO | Mountain |
| Washington, DC | Eastern |
| Boston, MA | Eastern |
| El Paso, TX | Mountain |
| Nashville, TN | Central |
| Detroit, MI | Eastern |
The tricky cases (why one color per state is wrong)
Time zone boundaries don’t follow state lines everywhere. These are the real, frequently-searched exceptions this map handles honestly instead of painting one color per state.
Arizona: no daylight saving — except the Navajo Nation
Arizona keeps Mountain Standard Time (UTC−7) all year and does not spring forward. From March to November that puts it on the same clock as Pacific Time (California); in winter it falls back in line with the rest of the Mountain zone. The state opted out of daylight saving in 1968 — in a desert summer, an extra hour of evening sun just means an extra hour of air conditioning.
The exception is the Navajo Nation in the northeast corner, which does observe daylight saving so the reservation keeps one clock across the parts of it that reach into Utah and New Mexico. And inside the Navajo Nation sits the Hopi Reservation, which follows the rest of Arizona and does not observe DST — so in summer a single drive across northeastern Arizona can cross the daylight-saving line several times.
Florida: two time zones
The entire peninsula — Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville — is on Eastern Time, but the western end of the panhandle is on Central Time. The line runs roughly along the Apalachicola River: Pensacola and the counties out to the Alabama border stay Central, one hour behind Miami. It catches people driving west along the Gulf coast, where the clocks jump back an hour partway across the panhandle.
Indiana: a genuinely confusing history
For decades most of Indiana stayed on Eastern Standard Time year-round without daylight saving, drifting relative to its neighbors every summer. The state finally adopted daylight saving statewide in 2006 — but it’s still split: most counties are Eastern, while a cluster near Chicago in the northwest and another near Evansville in the southwest are Central. That tangled history is why the IANA database carries several America/Indiana/* zones — counties changed their rules on different schedules.
The Mountain–Central line: the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas
Across the Great Plains the Central/Mountain boundary cuts through the middle of several states, generally along county lines rather than the state border. Kansas, Nebraska, and both Dakotas each have a Mountain-time western edge, and Texas keeps its far-western tip — El Paso and Hudspeth County — on Mountain Time to line up with New Mexico, an hour behind Houston and Dallas. Because the line follows counties (and in a few places rivers), a one-color-per-state map gets all of these wrong.
Hawaii: no daylight saving
Hawaii is on Hawaii–Aleutian Standard Time (UTC−10)and, like Arizona, does not observe daylight saving. In winter it’s two hours behind California and five behind New York; in summer, when the mainland springs forward, it’s three and six hours behind. The far-western Aleutian Islands of Alaska share Hawaii’s −10 standard offset but do change their clocks — which is why Alaska shows up as a two-zone state in the table above.
Frequently asked questions
Related tools
Need the zone for one specific place, with a full breakdown and world clocks? Use the Time Zone Finder. To compare working hours across several cities at once, see the Time Difference Calculator, and for sunrise, sunset, and daylight length anywhere, the Sunrise & Sunset Calculator.