Buffalo, New York, United States
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 |
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Buffalo clocks, offsets and daylight saving
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.
Buffalo observes daylight saving. The next change lands on Sunday, 01 November 2026, when 1 hour is added or removed and the abbreviation becomes EST.
Across United States there are 10 distinct time zones among these 419 cities, so "local time" there depends entirely on which city you mean.
Time gaps from Buffalo right now
How Buffalo lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Buffalo is 3 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Buffalo is 5 hours behind |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Buffalo is 6 hours behind |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Buffalo is 8 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Buffalo is 9 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Buffalo is 12 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Buffalo is 13 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Buffalo is 14 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Buffalo is 1 hour behind |
When Buffalo and other cities overlap
Where the two working days actually meet, expressed in Buffalo local time.
| Sao Paulo | 09:00–16:00 in Buffalo | 7 hours overlap |
| Los Angeles | 12:00–17:00 in Buffalo | 5 hours overlap |
| London | 09:00–12:00 in Buffalo | 3 hours overlap |
| Paris | 09:00–11:00 in Buffalo | 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 Buffalo's time zone
These United States cities also use America/New_York, so their clocks read identically to Buffalo at every moment of the year.
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