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Meeting Planner

Find the best meeting time across time zones

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Add at least 2 participants to find optimal meeting times

About the Meeting Planner for Time Zones

Coordinating a call across time zones usually means someone opens a spreadsheet, guesses at UTC offsets, and still gets the invite wrong once daylight saving shifts a country's clock by an hour. The Meeting Planner removes that guesswork by laying out a shared time grid for every city or time zone you add, so you can see at a glance which hours overlap between a team in Seoul, a client in Berlin, and a colleague in Denver. It's built for the everyday reality of distributed teams and cross-border projects, where finding one workable slot for five people can otherwise take several messages back and forth.

You add the locations you're coordinating between, and the tool renders each one as a column of hours so you can scan for overlap instead of doing the math by hand. As you move a time slider or click a specific hour, every city's local time updates together, making it obvious when a proposed 9 AM in New York lands at 11 PM in Tokyo — clearly outside working hours. Because the tool tracks real time zone rules rather than fixed offsets, it accounts for daylight saving transitions automatically, which is exactly where manual UTC math tends to break down twice a year.

A practical habit is to add every participant's city before picking a time, even ones you're fairly sure about, since a single overlooked location can turn what looks like a convenient slot into a 6 AM call for someone. All the calculation happens directly in your browser, so there's nothing to install and no meeting details are sent anywhere — useful if you're planning around sensitive schedules or simply don't want to sign up for another account just to check a time difference.

How to find a meeting time across time zones

Compare working hours across multiple cities and pick a time that works for everyone.

  1. 1

    Add your locations

    Search for and add each city or time zone involved in the meeting, such as your own and each participant's.

  2. 2

    Review the time grid

    Look at the columns of hours displayed for each location to see how their days line up against each other.

  3. 3

    Scan for overlapping hours

    Identify the hours that fall within reasonable working hours for all the added locations at once.

  4. 4

    Adjust the time slider

    Move the slider or click a specific hour to preview how that exact time translates across every city simultaneously.

  5. 5

    Confirm daylight saving alignment

    Check that the displayed local times account for each location's current daylight saving status before finalizing.

  6. 6

    Share the chosen time

    Note the confirmed time for each participant's local zone and send it along with the meeting invite.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a meeting planner used for?

A meeting planner helps you find a suitable meeting time when participants are in different time zones. Enter the time zones of all attendees and the tool shows the local time for each person at any proposed meeting time.

How many time zones can I add?

You can add as many time zones as needed. The planner displays a grid so you can visually compare business hours across all locations and identify time slots that work for everyone.

Does the tool account for daylight saving time?

Yes, the planner uses the IANA time zone database which includes historical and future daylight saving time rules for all regions. The displayed times will be correct regardless of the time of year.