Word Clock Widget
A grid of letters where the relevant ones light up to spell the current time, rounded to the nearest five minutes. Inspired by the Qlocktwo design language. 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/word-clock/embed/?tz=Europe/London"
width="400"
height="400"
style="border:0"
loading="lazy"
title="Word 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.
Like the physical letter-grid clocks it imitates, this widget rounds to the nearest five minutes, so it switches to "five past" at three minutes past the hour. Use the digital or analog widget if visitors need the exact minute. Keep the iframe square so the letter grid is not squashed.
Other widgets and related tools
Browse the other embeddable clocks, or open the live reference pages they are built on.