Kansas City, United States
Current time in United States
Time zone: CDT (UTC/GMT -05:00) — America/Chicago
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -13 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT -5 ) Kansas City, United States |
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Time zone in Kansas City
Clocks in Kansas City are set to CDT, 5 hours behind UTC (UTC-05:00). Software that asks for a region wants America/Chicago — the IANA identifier for this zone.
Daylight saving applies here. Clocks next move back 1 hour on Sunday, 01 November 2026, putting Kansas City on CST and changing its gap to every other zone listed below.
United States is not on a single clock: the 419 cities listed here fall across 10 time zones, so times elsewhere in the country will not match Kansas City.
Around 475,378 people live in Kansas City, making it the 25th largest of the 212 United States cities covered here.
Time gaps from Kansas City right now
Read this as: relative to each city below, Kansas City is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Kansas City is 1 hour behind |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Kansas City is 2 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Kansas City is 6 hours behind |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Kansas City is 7 hours behind |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Kansas City is 9 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Kansas City is 10 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Kansas City is 13 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Kansas City is 14 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Kansas City is 15 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Kansas City is 2 hours behind |
When Kansas City and other cities overlap
Overlap of a normal working day, shown in Kansas City time — outside these windows one side is off the clock.
| New York | 09:00–16:00 in Kansas City | 7 hours overlap |
| Los Angeles | 11:00–17:00 in Kansas City | 6 hours overlap |
| Sao Paulo | 09:00–15:00 in Kansas City | 6 hours overlap |
| London | 09:00–11:00 in Kansas City | 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 Kansas City's time zone
No difference at all from Kansas City: the cities below share the America/Chicago zone.
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