Reading, 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 ) Reading, United Kingdom |
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| Islington |
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| Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Southend-on-Sea |
| Brighton |
| Derby |
| Southampton |
| Wolverhampton |
| Plymouth |
| Stoke-on-Trent |
| Milton Keynes |
| City of Westminster |
| Northampton |
| Oldham |
| Bexley |
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Reading time zone and UTC offset
The local standard in Reading is BST — UTC+01:00, or 1 hour ahead of UTC. Systems that store time zones by name use Europe/London for this part of the world.
This zone does shift. On Sunday, 25 October 2026 the clocks go back 1 hour and Reading moves to GMT, so anything booked across that date needs checking.
With a population near 318,014, Reading comes in 14th of the 102 United Kingdom cities we list.
Time difference between Reading and other cities
Live differences from Reading, calculated from each zone's rules as they stand today rather than a fixed table.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Reading is 5 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Reading is 8 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Reading is 1 hour behind |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Reading is 3 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Reading is 4 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Reading is 7 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Reading is 8 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Reading is 9 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Reading is 4 hours ahead |
Scheduling calls with Reading
Assuming a 09:00–17:00 day at both ends, these windows (in Reading local time) fall inside working hours for both cities.
| Paris | 09:00–16:00 in Reading | 7 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 09:00–14:00 in Reading | 5 hours overlap |
| Sao Paulo | 13:00–17:00 in Reading | 4 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 09:00–12:30 in Reading | 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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