Memphis, Tennessee, 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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Time zone in Memphis
Memphis 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.
Daylight saving applies here. Clocks next move back 1 hour on Sunday, 01 November 2026, putting Memphis on CST and changing its gap to every other zone listed below.
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 difference between Memphis and other cities
Read this as: relative to each city below, Memphis is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Memphis is 1 hour behind |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Memphis is 2 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Memphis is 6 hours behind |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Memphis is 7 hours behind |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Memphis is 9 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Memphis is 10 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Memphis is 13 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Memphis is 14 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Memphis is 15 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Memphis is 2 hours behind |
When Memphis and other cities overlap
Overlap of a normal working day, shown in Memphis time — outside these windows one side is off the clock.
| New York | 09:00–16:00 in Memphis | 7 hours overlap |
| Los Angeles | 11:00–17:00 in Memphis | 6 hours overlap |
| Sao Paulo | 09:00–15:00 in Memphis | 6 hours overlap |
| London | 09:00–11:00 in Memphis | 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.
Cities on the same clock as Memphis
Same zone, same time — each of these sits on America/Chicago alongside Memphis, including through any clock change.
Chicago San Antonio Fort Worth Oklahoma City New South Memphis Milwaukee Omaha Kansas City
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