| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +5h | Becomes +4h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +6h | Becomes +5h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +8h | Becomes +9h on 1 Nov |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +13h | Becomes +14h on 1 Nov |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +14h | Becomes +15h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | ±0h | |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −3h | Becomes −2h on 31 Oct |
Albany, United States runs on UTC−4. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−5 in winter, UTC−4 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. Albany and New York currently share the same clock. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 9 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–18:00 in Albany lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Albany and London is 5 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–13:00 in Albany lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Albany and Tokyo is 13 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with Tokyo, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Toronto, Havana, Washington DC. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Albany.
Albany (United States) is home to roughly 100K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:51, sunset at 18:39. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−5 in winter, UTC−4 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 43° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
United States
Capital
Washington DC
Continent
North America
Time Zone
EDT · America/New_York
Coordinates
42.65°N, 73.76°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Imperial
Did You Know?
Albany was chartered in 1686 and claims one of the oldest continuous municipal charters in the United States, on a site Dutch traders settled from 1614. The Erie Canal, opened here in 1825, cut freight costs to the Great Lakes by around 95%.
The clock: Albany keeps Eastern Time. Its Empire State Plaza, built between 1965 and 1976, cost more than $1.7 billion.
Albany lies at 73.8°W. Its time zone, UTC−5, is built around the 75°W meridian. The 1.2° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 5 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:55 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 55 minutes and pushing solar noon to 12:55.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 19m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 3m. The swing between them is 6h 17m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Albany the sun comes up earliest on 16 June at 05:16, while the latest sunset waits until 28 June at 20:37. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Albany that civil twilight runs about 28 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 35 minutes at the solstice.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Albany, United States is America/New_York with a current UTC offset of UTC−4.
Albany has an estimated population of 100K and is located at coordinates 42.65°N, 73.76°W.
Albany gets 15h 19m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 3m on its shortest, averaging 12h 13m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Albany falls at about 11:55 on UTC−5 standard time, because the city sits 1.2° from the meridian its zone is built on.
One of the Oldest Charters in America: Albany was chartered in 1686 and claims one of the oldest continuous municipal charters in the United States, on a site Dutch traders settled from 1614.