Time in Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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

Boston keeps EDT (4 hours behind UTC, UTC-04:00). Its database zone is America/New_York — worth knowing if you are scheduling anything that has to survive a daylight saving change.

This zone does shift. On Sunday, 01 November 2026 the clocks go back 1 hour and Boston moves to EST, so anything booked across that date needs checking.

Bear in mind United States spans 10 zones across the 419 cities we cover — checking a second city in the same country is often necessary.

Read this as: relative to each city below, Boston is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.

Overlap of a normal working day, shown in Boston time — outside these windows one side is off the clock.

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

Same zone, same time — each of these sits on America/New_York alongside Boston, including through any clock change.

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