| 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 |
Key West, 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. Key West 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 Key West lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Key West 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 Key West lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Key West 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 Key West.
Key West (United States) is home to roughly 26K people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:18, sunset at 19:15. 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 25° 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
24.56°N, 81.78°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Imperial
Did You Know?
Key West is about 145 km from Havana and about 210 km from Miami in a straight line. It was once the wealthiest city per capita in the United States, on income from salvaging wrecked ships off the reef.
The clock: Key West keeps Eastern Time. The Overseas Highway reaching it runs 181 km across 42 bridges, including one nearly 11 km long.
Key West lies at 81.8°W. Its time zone, UTC−5, is built around the 75°W meridian. The 6.8° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 27 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:27 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 87 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:27.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 13h 40m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 10h 37m. The swing between them is 3h 3m. 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 Key West the sun comes up earliest on 1 November at 06:33, while the latest sunset waits until 4 July at 20:20. 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 Key West that civil twilight runs about 23 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 Key West, United States is America/New_York with a current UTC offset of UTC−4.
Key West has an estimated population of 26K and is located at coordinates 24.56°N, 81.78°W.
Key West gets 13h 40m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 37m on its shortest, averaging 12h 9m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Key West falls at about 12:27 on UTC−5 standard time, because the city sits 6.8° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Closer to Cuba Than to Miami: Key West is about 145 km from Havana and about 210 km from Miami in a straight line. It was once the wealthiest city per capita in the United States, on income from salvaging wrecked ships off the reef.