What Time Is It There? is a free daily time-zone game. You are told the time in one city, and your job is to read the clock for another: it is 3:00 PM in London, so what time is it right now in Tokyo, or Los Angeles, or Kathmandu? Set the clock to your best guess and lock it in.

Every day brings one puzzle of five cities, seeded from the date so that everyone in the world plays the exact same round. You score up to 1,000 points per city depending on how close you land, the clock hands snap to the real answer, and you get a spoiler-free grid to share, just like the daily word games. There is also an endless mode for a longer streak.

It is quietly educational, too. Guess a few rounds and you start to feel where the world’s time zones really sit, including the surprising half-hour and quarter-hour offsets in places like India, Nepal, Iran, South Australia and Newfoundland. Nothing to install, no signup, and it works great on a phone.

What Time Is It There?

How to play

Read the reference line at the top: it tells you the current time in a well-known anchor city.
You are shown a target city. Slide the clock (or use the minus and plus one-hour buttons) to the time you think it is there right now.
Tap Lock in guess. The clock reveals the true local time, how far off you were, and your points for the round.
Play all five cities to finish the daily puzzle and see your total out of 5,000.
Tap Share result to copy your spoiler-free score grid, then come back tomorrow to keep your streak alive.

Game modes

Daily. One five-round puzzle per day, the same for every player worldwide, scored from 0 to 5,000. Your day streak grows each day you play, and your best daily score is saved on your device.

Endless. Keep guessing city after city with three lives; any guess within two hours keeps you alive, so a good sense of the map earns a long streak. Filter to a region pack (World, Europe, Asia, Americas or Africa) to focus your practice.

Prefer a 24-hour clock? Toggle between 12-hour and 24-hour formats any time with the button in the top corner.

The geography behind it

Local time is really a story about longitude. The world is divided into time zones measured as offsets from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC): New York is UTC-4 in summer, London is UTC+1, and Tokyo is UTC+9. Move east and the clock moves forward; move west and it moves back.

Most zones are whole hours apart, but not all. India runs on a single UTC+5:30, Nepal is a famous UTC+5:45, Iran sits at UTC+3:30, South Australia keeps UTC+9:30, and the Canadian island of Newfoundland is UTC-3:30. Daylight saving time shifts many zones by an hour for part of the year, and the two hemispheres do it in opposite seasons, which is exactly why a fixed offset you memorised in July can be wrong in January. The game handles all of this from real time-zone data, so the answer is always the true local time for today’s date.

Frequently asked questions

Is it the same puzzle for everyone today?

Yes. The daily puzzle (the anchor city, the reference time and the five target cities) is chosen from the UTC date, so every player in the world gets the identical round each day. It resets at midnight UTC. That is what makes the score grids worth sharing and comparing.

How are the local times calculated?

From the standard IANA time-zone database, read through your browser. Because every puzzle is pinned to a real calendar date, daylight saving time is applied correctly, including the odd half-hour and quarter-hour offsets. No time is ever hard-coded.

Do I need to know time zones by heart?

No. Start from the reference time you are given and shift forward for cities to the east or back for cities to the west. After a few rounds you will start to remember the big offsets, and the reveal after each guess teaches you the exact one.

How is my score worked out?

Each city is worth up to 1,000 points. A spot-on answer (within 15 minutes) scores the full 1,000; the further your guess is from the real time, the fewer points you earn, down to zero once you are twelve hours off.

Is it free, and does it work on mobile?

Completely free, no signup, and built mobile-first with large touch targets. Your streak and stats are saved privately on your own device.

Which cities and data does it use?

A curated set of roughly one hundred well-known world cities with their IANA time zones. Country flags come from the free, public-domain flag-icons project. It is a game by Mappr.