Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current time in United States
Time zone: CDT (UTC/GMT -05:00) — America/Chicago
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -5 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT -05:00) America/Chicago |
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What time zone is Madison in?
Madison keeps CDT (5 hours behind UTC, UTC-05:00). Its database zone is America/Chicago — worth knowing if you are scheduling anything that has to survive a daylight saving change.
Madison observes daylight saving. The next change lands on Sunday, 01 November 2026, when 1 hour is added or removed and the abbreviation becomes CST.
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 Madison.
Madison compared with major world cities
Read this as: relative to each city below, Madison is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Madison is 1 hour behind |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Madison is 2 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Madison is 6 hours behind |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Madison is 7 hours behind |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Madison is 9 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Madison is 10 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Madison is 13 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Madison is 14 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Madison is 15 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Madison is 2 hours behind |
Working hours that match Madison
Assuming a 09:00–17:00 day at both ends, these windows (in Madison local time) fall inside working hours for both cities.
| New York | 09:00–16:00 in Madison | 7 hours overlap |
| Los Angeles | 11:00–17:00 in Madison | 6 hours overlap |
| Sao Paulo | 09:00–15:00 in Madison | 6 hours overlap |
| London | 09:00–11:00 in Madison | 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 Madison's time zone
These United States cities also use America/Chicago, so their clocks read identically to Madison at every moment of the year.
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