| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +6h | Becomes +5h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +7h | Becomes +6h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +9h | Becomes +10h on 1 Nov |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +14h | Becomes +15h on 1 Nov |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +15h | Becomes +16h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | +1h | Becomes ±0h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −2h | Becomes −1h on 1 Nov |
Birmingham, United States runs on UTC−5. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−6 in winter, UTC−5 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. The time difference between Birmingham and New York is 1 hour. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 8 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–17:00 in Birmingham lines up with 10:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Birmingham and London is 6 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–12:00 in Birmingham lines up with 15:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Birmingham and Tokyo is 14 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 Chicago, Dallas, Houston. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Birmingham.
Birmingham (United States) is home to roughly 200K people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:40, sunset at 18:33. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−6 in winter, UTC−5 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 34° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
United States
Capital
Washington DC
Continent
North America
Time Zone
CDT · America/Chicago
Coordinates
33.52°N, 86.81°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Imperial
Did You Know?
The Vulcan statue above Birmingham is about 17 metres tall and the largest cast-iron statue in the world, made for the 1904 World's Fair to advertise the city's iron industry. The city was founded in 1871 where coal, iron ore and limestone met.
The clock: Birmingham keeps Central Time. Its 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963 was a turning point in the civil rights movement.
Birmingham lies at 86.8°W. Its time zone, UTC−6, is built around the 90°W meridian. The 3.2° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 13 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:47 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 47 minutes and pushing solar noon to 12:47.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 23m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 56m. The swing between them is 4h 27m. At this latitude the seasons are visible in the clock, but never dramatic.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Birmingham the sun comes up earliest on 13 June at 05:36, while the latest sunset waits until 1 July at 20:01. 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 Birmingham that civil twilight runs about 25 minutes at the equinox.
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 Birmingham, United States is America/Chicago with a current UTC offset of UTC−5.
Birmingham has an estimated population of 200K and is located at coordinates 33.52°N, 86.81°W.
Birmingham gets 14h 23m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 56m on its shortest, averaging 12h 11m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Birmingham falls at about 11:47 on UTC−6 standard time, because the city sits 3.2° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Statue of Vulcan on a Hill: The Vulcan statue above Birmingham is about 17 metres tall and the largest cast-iron statue in the world, made for the 1904 World's Fair to advertise the city's iron industry.