Find the working hours you share with a remote team
A remote job that looks perfect can turn out to mean calls at eleven at night. Before you apply, or before you set a meeting, check how many working hours you really share. Pick your time zone and theirs, set each working day, and see the overlap on a 24-hour bar, in everyone’s local time.
Offsets change with daylight saving. Empty means today.
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Pick two time zones and working hours to see the overlap.
How the overlap is calculated
Each working day is converted to UTC with the zone’s offset on the chosen date, read from the time zone database built into your browser. That covers daylight saving time and zones with half-hour or 45-minute offsets, such as India (UTC+5:30) and Nepal (UTC+5:45).
The shared time is the part of the 24-hour day that lies inside every working day at once. A working day that ends before it starts is treated as a night shift running past midnight, and an overlap that crosses midnight is shown as one stretch. The bar is drawn in the first person’s local time; the table gives the same hours in each person’s own time.
Questions about the time zone overlap
How do I find overlapping working hours between two time zones?
Convert both working days to the same clock and take the part they share. For example, 9:00–17:00 in Berlin and 9:00–17:00 in New York overlap from 15:00 to 17:00 Berlin time, which is 9:00 to 11:00 in New York, while the two cities are six hours apart.
Does the calculator handle daylight saving time?
Yes. Offsets are read from your browser’s time zone database for the date you choose, so a date in July and a date in January can give different answers. Check again around the clock changes in spring and autumn, when two places can switch on different days.
What about time zones with half-hour offsets?
They work the same way. India is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of UTC and Nepal 5 hours 45 minutes, and the overlap is calculated to the minute.
How many shared hours does a remote team need?
There is no fixed number: it depends on how much of the work is live conversation. Use the result to see what a job would mean for your day, which meetings would fall early or late, and whether that suits you before you apply.
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