Time Difference between United States and London, United Kingdom (2024)

FAQs

Is London 5 or 6 hours ahead of the US? ›

The time difference between London and New York is 5 hours. New York City is located in the UTC-5 time zone, during summertime it becomes UTC-4. The United Kingdom is therefore ahead of New York. This means that when it is midnight in New York, it is already 05:00 in the UK.

London, United Kingdom is 7 hours ahead of the center of the United States. PLEASE NOTE: United States may span multiple time zones. We are using the America/Denver time zone. For more accuracy, choose specific cities for each location.

However, EST is Eastern Standard Time, used by New York only in the winter; New York uses EDT, Eastern Daylight Time in the summer. So while the UK is 5 hours ahead of New York, it's 6 hours ahead of EST in the summer. The UK uses GMT in winter, BST (British Summer Time) in summer. GMT is EST+5, BST is EDT+5.

8 hours and 10 minutes is the average flight time from London to New York.

If we look at a time zone map, we see that the time zone 12 hours ahead of EST is ICT, a.k.a. Indochina Time [Zone]. From north to south, the countries located in the ICT are Russia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia.

Japan is in a time zone referred to as “Japan Standard Time”(JST), which is 9 hours ahead of Greenwich Time. It is 17 hours ahead of Los Angeles, 14 hours ahead of New York, and 9 hours ahead of London. (During the summer, the difference is one hour less).

No country, or part of a country, is 24 hours ahead of any part of the contiguous 48 states of the U.S. However, there are places that are 24 hours ahead of American Samoa (UTC-11) and Hawaii (UTC-10).

China, with a total area of 9.38 million square kilometres (3.62 million square miles) according to the World Bank, is the largest country to observe just one time zone: Beijing (or China) Standard Time.

The United Kingdom uses Greenwich Mean Time (also known as Western European Time or UTC) and British Summer Time (UTC+01:00) (also known as Western European Summer Time).

What is 7pm UK time in USA EST? ›

In the UK the clocks go forward 1 hour at 1am on the last Sunday in March, and back 1 hour at 2am on the last Sunday in October. The period when the clocks are 1 hour ahead is called British Summer Time (BST). There's more daylight in the evenings and less in the mornings (sometimes called Daylight Saving Time).

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is observed in London. The Prime Meridian lies 821/2 degrees east of the Indian Standard Meridian. As a result, Indian Standard Time (IST) is 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). As a result, at midnight in London, it is 5.30 p.m. in India.

London is 4 hours and 30 minutes behind New Delhi.