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UTC Time Now — Coordinated Universal Time

The current UTC time (Coordinated Universal Time, UTC +00:00) is shown below. UTC is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time.

UTC — UTC +00:00

15:40:54

Thursday, 22 October 2026 UTC

Where UTC is used

These 16 zones keep UTC +00:00 all year, so their clocks always match UTC:

ZoneCountryJanuaryJuly
Africa/Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire GMT +00:00 GMT +00:00
Africa/Accra Ghana GMT +00:00 GMT +00:00
Africa/Bamako Mali GMT +00:00 GMT +00:00
Africa/Banjul Gambia GMT +00:00 GMT +00:00
Africa/Bissau Guinea-Bissau GMT +00:00 GMT +00:00
Africa/Conakry Guinea GMT +00:00 GMT +00:00
Africa/Dakar Senegal GMT +00:00 GMT +00:00
Africa/Freetown Sierra Leone GMT +00:00 GMT +00:00
Africa/Lome Togo GMT +00:00 GMT +00:00
Africa/Monrovia Liberia GMT +00:00 GMT +00:00
Africa/Nouakchott Mauritania GMT +00:00 GMT +00:00
Africa/Ouagadougou Burkina Faso GMT +00:00 GMT +00:00
Africa/Sao Tome São Tomé & Príncipe GMT +00:00 GMT +00:00
America/Danmarkshavn Greenland GMT +00:00 GMT +00:00
Atlantic/Reykjavik Iceland GMT +00:00 GMT +00:00
Atlantic/St Helena St. Helena GMT +00:00 GMT +00:00

About UTC

Offset & DST

UTC offset: +00:00

Daylight saving: Not observed

Representative IANA zone: Etc/UTC

IANA zones at UTC

  • Etc/UTC
  • UTC

Converting UTC to other time zones

UTC is fixed at UTC +00:00 — written +0000 in email headers and +00:00 in ISO 8601 timestamps. The table below uses each abbreviation's own fixed offset; for a specific place, check its city page, since local clocks switch between standard and daylight abbreviations.

ZoneDifferenceWhen it's 12:00 UTCConverter
PST Pacific Standard Time −8 h 04:00 Hour by hour →
MST Mountain Standard Time −7 h 05:00 Hour by hour →
CST Central Standard Time −6 h 06:00 Hour by hour →
EST Eastern Standard Time −5 h 07:00 Hour by hour →
BRT Brasília Time −3 h 09:00 Hour by hour →
BST British Summer Time +1 h 13:00 Hour by hour →
CET Central European Time +1 h 13:00 Hour by hour →
EET Eastern European Time +2 h 14:00 Hour by hour →
MSK Moscow Standard Time +3 h 15:00 Hour by hour →
GST Gulf Standard Time +4 h 16:00 Hour by hour →
IST India Standard Time +5:30 h 17:30 Hour by hour →
CST China Standard Time +8 h 20:00 Hour by hour →
JST Japan Standard Time +9 h 21:00 Hour by hour →
AEST Australian Eastern Standard Time +10 h 22:00 Hour by hour →

Other zones at UTC +00:00

UTC questions

What is UTC in UTC?
UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) is UTC +00:00. In ISO 8601 timestamps it is written +00:00, in email and HTTP headers +0000.
Which countries are on the same time as UTC?
Places on the same clock as UTC all year are in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, St. Helena, São Tomé & Príncipe, Togo.

More tools for UTC

Look up the exact IANA zone behind UTC, see it on the offset map, or compare it against other cities.