United Kingdom · BST
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Oxford, United Kingdom runs on UTC+1. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+0 in winter, UTC+1 in summer. Next change: 26 Oct. There is a 5-hour difference between Oxford and New York. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 14:00–18:00 in Oxford lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Oxford and London currently share the same clock. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 9 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–18:00 in Oxford lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. There is a 8-hour difference between Oxford and Tokyo. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–10:00 in Oxford lines up with 17:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Lisbon, Lagos, Casablanca. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Oxford.
Practical Info
Oxford (United Kingdom) is home to roughly 160K people. Today brings about 16.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 04:48, sunset at 21:30. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+0 in winter, UTC+1 in summer. Next change: 26 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 52° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
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United Kingdom
Capital
London
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
BST · Europe/London
Coordinates
51.75°N, 1.26°W
Currency
GBP (£)
Calling Code
+44
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Teaching is documented at Oxford from about 1096, which makes it the oldest university in the English-speaking world — older than the Aztec empire, and roughly three centuries older than the invention of printing in Europe.
The clock: Christ Church's Tom Tower still rings 101 times at 21:05 — the old curfew, kept on Oxford local time, which runs about five minutes behind Greenwich.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
7h overlap