Meeting planner · Time zones
Find the hour that suits everyone
Drag the rose line, use the arrow keys on the hour ruler, or type a time.
Setting up your places…
How the planner works
Every row is one place’s own clock, worked out from the official time-zone rules, so daylight saving changes, half-hour zones and different weekends are always right.
Add your places
Start from your own city and add up to five. The first row is the base: the hour ruler and the date follow it, and any row can move up to become the base.
Move the meeting
Drag or tap on any row, use the arrow keys on the ruler (Shift for whole hours), or type a time in any of the places. Pick the length from 30 minutes to 2 hours.
Read the board
Each hour is shaded as working hours (09:00–17:00 on a local working day), early or evening, night, or the local weekend (hatched). A brass frame marks the longest stretch when everyone is at work.
Share it
Copy a link that opens these places at this time, download a calendar file or add it to Google Calendar. Times are stored in UTC, so every calendar shows the same moment (IANA tzdata 2026e).
Need a single time converted instead? Time zone converter
Questions answered
Planning across time zones
How do I find a good meeting time across time zones?
Add every participant’s city. The planner marks each place’s working hours (09:00–17:00 on local weekdays) and frames the longest stretch when all of them overlap. Choose “Use it” beside “Best overlap” to move the meeting there. When no hour suits everyone, it suggests the hour with the most places at work.
Does the planner handle daylight saving time?
Yes. Each row is computed from the IANA time-zone rules (2026e) for the exact day you pick. On a clock-change day the base row has 23 or 25 hours, and a note warns when any place changes its clocks within the following week, because the difference between places shifts on that date.
How do I share a meeting time?
“Copy link” gives an address that opens the same places, day, time and length for anyone, with no account. “Add to calendar” downloads an .ics file for Apple Calendar, Outlook or Google Calendar, and “Google Calendar” opens a ready-made event. Both list the time in every place.
Why do some places start their hours at :30 or :45?
Some zones are offset from UTC by a half or quarter hour, such as India (UTC+5:30), Nepal (UTC+5:45) and Newfoundland (UTC−3:30). Their row shows the minutes next to each hour, and a note says so.
Which days count as the weekend?
The local custom: Friday and Saturday across much of the Middle East and North Africa, Friday only in Iran and Afghanistan, and Saturday and Sunday elsewhere. Public holidays are not included, so check them for the countries you invite.
Is anything stored about my meeting?
No. The plan lives in the page address (the places, the time in UTC and the length) and in your browser. Nothing is sent to Hourora’s servers or stored there.