Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Current time in United Kingdom
Time zone: BST (UTC/GMT +01:00) — Europe/London
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -7 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +1 ) Portsmouth, United Kingdom |
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Time zone in Portsmouth
Portsmouth keeps BST (1 hour ahead of UTC, UTC+01:00). Its database zone is Europe/London — worth knowing if you are scheduling anything that has to survive a daylight saving change.
Expect a clock change on Sunday, 25 October 2026: Portsmouth switches to GMT, moving back by 1 hour. Until that date the UTC+01:00 offset above holds.
Portsmouth has roughly 208,100 residents and ranks 34th by population among the United Kingdom cities on this site.
Time difference between Portsmouth and other cities
Read this as: relative to each city below, Portsmouth is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Portsmouth is 5 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Portsmouth is 8 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Portsmouth is 1 hour behind |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Portsmouth is 3 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Portsmouth is 4 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Portsmouth is 7 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Portsmouth is 8 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Portsmouth is 9 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Portsmouth is 4 hours ahead |
When Portsmouth and other cities overlap
Where the two working days actually meet, expressed in Portsmouth local time.
| Paris | 09:00–16:00 in Portsmouth | 7 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 09:00–14:00 in Portsmouth | 5 hours overlap |
| Sao Paulo | 13:00–17:00 in Portsmouth | 4 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 09:00–12:30 in Portsmouth | 3.5 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with Los Angeles, Tokyo or Sydney, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
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