| 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 |
Columbus, 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. Columbus 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 Columbus lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Columbus 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 Columbus lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Columbus 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 Columbus.
Columbus (United States) is home to roughly 905K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:27, sunset at 19:16. 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 40° 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
39.96°N, 83.00°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Imperial
Did You Know?
Ohio State enrols around 60,000 students on its Columbus campus, among the largest single-campus enrolments in the United States. Its stadium seats over 100,000, which on autumn Saturdays makes it one of Ohio's larger population centres.
The clock: Columbus keeps Eastern Time and sits near the centre of the state.
Columbus lies at 83.0°W. Its time zone, UTC−5, is built around the 75°W meridian. The 8.0° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 32 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:32 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 92 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:32.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 1m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 20m. The swing between them is 5h 41m. 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 Columbus the sun comes up earliest on 15 June at 06:02, while the latest sunset waits until 29 June at 21:05. 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 Columbus that civil twilight runs about 27 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 33 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 Columbus, United States is America/New_York with a current UTC offset of UTC−4.
Columbus has an estimated population of 905K and is located at coordinates 39.96°N, 83.00°W.
Columbus gets 15h 1m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 20m on its shortest, averaging 12h 12m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Columbus falls at about 12:32 on UTC−5 standard time, because the city sits 8.0° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Campus the Size of a Town: Ohio State enrols around 60,000 students on its Columbus campus, among the largest single-campus enrolments in the United States.