Text Clock Widget
A clock that spells the current time in plain English, rounded to the nearest minute. Friendly and unique on a sidebar or about page. Pick a time zone and style below, check the live preview, and copy the snippet — no sign-up, no script on your page, no tracking.
Configure and copy
Embed code
<iframe
src="https://timedate.now/widgets/text-clock/embed/?tz=Europe/London"
width="400"
height="220"
style="border:0"
loading="lazy"
title="Text Clock — Europe/London"
></iframe>Parameters
Every option is a query-string parameter on the iframe URL, so you can also edit the snippet by hand.
| Name | Values | Description |
|---|---|---|
tz | IANA zone | The time zone to display. Defaults to UTC. See all IANA zones. |
theme | light or dark | Color scheme. Defaults to the visitor's system preference. |
label | 0 or 1 | Set to 0 to hide the time-zone label. Defaults to 1. |
How the widget keeps time
- The time is computed in the visitor's browser from their device clock and the browser's built-in copy of the IANA time zone database, so daylight saving changes are applied automatically for any zone.
- Because it relies on the visitor's device clock, a device that is set wrong will show the wrong time. Most phones and computers sync over the network and are accurate to well under a second.
- The widget is a static page: no cookies, no analytics and no requests after it loads.
- It scales to the iframe size, and
loading="lazy"stops it loading until the visitor scrolls near it.
The sentence uses natural phrasing for the quarter and half hours ("quarter past", "half past", "quarter to") and says whether it is morning, afternoon or evening in the chosen zone. It suits sidebars and about pages where a numeric clock would feel out of place.
Other widgets and related tools
Browse the other embeddable clocks, or open the live reference pages they are built on.
Analog clock widgetClassic dial with a smooth sweeping second hand.Digital clock widget12 or 24 hour digits, optional seconds and date.Word clock widgetLetter grid that lights up the time in five-minute steps.World clockLive times for major cities in one view.IANA time zonesFind the exact zone name for the tz parameter.