Time in Boston, United States

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

Local time here is EDT, which sits 4 hours behind UTC, written UTC-04:00. The canonical zone name is America/New_York, and that is what to pick from a time zone dropdown.

Daylight saving applies here. Clocks next move back 1 hour on Sunday, 01 November 2026, putting Boston on EST and changing its gap to every other zone listed below.

Boston is one of 419 United States cities here, spread over 10 time zones; do not assume the rest of the country reads the same clock.

Boston has roughly 675,647 residents and ranks 16th by population among the United States cities on this site.

Current gap between Boston and cities people most often need to coordinate with. These figures already account for daylight saving where it applies.

Assuming a 09:00–17:00 day at both ends, these windows (in Boston local time) fall inside working hours for both cities.

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

These United States cities also use America/New_York, so their clocks read identically to Boston at every moment of the year.

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