Use Google Calendar in different time zones
You can change your time zone and create events with certain time zones. This helps if you'll be traveling when the event happens, or if you're creating events for people in different time zones.
You can change your time zone and create events in certain time zones. No matter where you create an event, everyone gets it in their own time zone. This can help with travel plans or make it easy to create events for people around the world.
Tasks adapt to the new time zone if the Calendar’s time zone is changed after a task is created. For example, a 9 AM MT task changes to an 11 AM ET task if you travel from Denver to New York.
Change your time zone
Important: If you aren't the owner, you can’t change the time zone of a calendar.
When you travel to a different time zone, you can see your calendar in the local time.
- On your computer, open Google Calendar.
- In the top right, click Settings 👁 Settings
👁 and then
Settings. - In "Time zone," click Primary time zone.
- Search for a city or country.
- Select your preferred time zone.
- On your computer, open Google Calendar
- On the left, click My calendars.
- Point to the calendar you want to change and click More 👁 More
👁 and then
Settings and sharing. - In your calendar settings, click Time zone.
- Search for a city or country.
- Select your preferred time zone.
Use other time zones
- On your computer, open Google Calendar.
- In the top right, click Settings 👁 Settings
👁 and then
Settings. - In the "Time zone" section, click Display secondary time zone.
- Click Secondary time zone.
- Search for a city or country.
- Select your preferred time zone.
- On your computer, open Google Calendar .
- At the top left, click Create 👁 and then
Create event 👁 and then
More options. - Next to the time for the event, click Time zone.
- Search for a city or country.
- Select your preferred time zone.
- If the event starts or ends in different time zones, click Use separate start and end time zones.
- Click OK.
- Fill in the details of your event 👁 and then
click Save.
- On your computer, open Google Calendar.
- Click the event 👁 and then
Edit 👁 Edit
. - Next to the time of the event, click Time zone.
- Search for a city or country.
- Select your preferred time zone.
- Click OK.
- On your computer, open Google Calendar.
- In the top right, click Settings 👁 Settings
👁 and then
Settings. - In "World clock" click Show world clock.
- Click Add time zone.
- Search for a city or country.
- Select your preferred time zone.
Daylight saving time
Important:
- Events in the past years or future might not reflect daylight saving time changes. It might be incorrectly displayed.
- As the date changes within a few years, the displayed time automatically adjusts.
Google Calendar uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to help avoid issues with daylight saving time.
When events are created, they're converted into UTC, but you'll always see them in your local time.
If an area switches their time zone, events created before we knew about the change might be in the wrong time zone.