Time in Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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Current time in United States

Time zone: EDT (UTC/GMT -04:00) — America/New_York

Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -4 H
Time zone: (UTC/GMT -04:00) America/New_York

Time zone in Atlanta

If you need the offset: Atlanta is on EDT, 4 hours behind UTC, i.e. UTC-04:00. The matching IANA zone is America/New_York.

One date to watch: Sunday, 01 November 2026. That is when Atlanta goes back 1 hour onto EST — recurring meetings set before then will land an hour out unless the calendar handles zones properly.

Across United States there are 10 distinct time zones among these 419 cities, so "local time" there depends entirely on which city you mean.

How far ahead or behind is Atlanta?

How Atlanta lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.

Los Angeles UTC-07:00 Atlanta is 3 hours ahead
London UTC+01:00 Atlanta is 5 hours behind
Paris UTC+02:00 Atlanta is 6 hours behind
Dubai UTC+04:00 Atlanta is 8 hours behind
Mumbai UTC+05:30 Atlanta is 9 hours 30 minutes behind
Shanghai UTC+08:00 Atlanta is 12 hours behind
Tokyo UTC+09:00 Atlanta is 13 hours behind
Sydney UTC+10:00 Atlanta is 14 hours behind
Sao Paulo UTC-03:00 Atlanta is 1 hour behind

Scheduling calls with Atlanta

Usable call slots from Atlanta, taking business hours as 09:00 to 17:00 in both places.

Sao Paulo 09:00–16:00 in Atlanta 7 hours overlap
Los Angeles 12:00–17:00 in Atlanta 5 hours overlap
London 09:00–12:00 in Atlanta 3 hours overlap
Paris 09:00–11:00 in Atlanta 2 hours overlap

No shared working window exists with Dubai, Mumbai, Shanghai or Tokyo, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.

Sharing Atlanta's time zone

No difference at all from Atlanta: the cities below share the America/New_York zone.

New York City Queens The Bronx Boston South Boston Staten Island Virginia Beach Tampa