EDT to London Time Converter
Quick answers
EDT is 5 hours behind London. EDT uses GMT -4, and London, United Kingdom uses GMT +1 for this comparison.
For example, 1:00 pm EDT is 6:00 pm London, United Kingdom. Use the converter above to adjust the date or time and create a shareable meeting link.
Best meeting overlap: 9am-12pm EDT, which is 2pm-5pm London.
Compare EDT time with London time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Eastern Daylight Time is 5 hours behind BST (British Summer Time)
1:00 pm13:00 in EDT is 6:00 pm18:00 in London, United Kingdom
EDT to London call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-12pm in EDT which corresponds to 2pm-5pm in London
1:00 pm13:00 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Offset UTC -4:00 hours
6:00 pm18:00 BST (British Summer Time) (London, United Kingdom). Offset UTC +1:00 hour
1:00 pm13:00 EDT / 6:00 pm18:00 London, United Kingdom
| EDT | London, United Kingdom |
|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 5am |
| 1am | 6am |
| 2am | 7am |
| 3am | 8am |
| 4am | 9am |
| 5am | 10am |
| 6am | 11am |
| 7am | 12pm (noon) |
| 8am | 1pm |
| 9am | 2pm |
| 10am | 3pm |
| 11am | 4pm |
| 12pm (noon) | 5pm |
| 1pm | 6pm |
| 2pm | 7pm |
| 3pm | 8pm |
| 4pm | 9pm |
| 5pm | 10pm |
| 6pm | 11pm |
| 7pm | 12am (midnight) |
| 8pm | 1am |
| 9pm | 2am |
| 10pm | 3am |
| 11pm | 4am |
| 00:00 | 05:00 |
| 01:00 | 06:00 |
| 02:00 | 07:00 |
| 03:00 | 08:00 |
| 04:00 | 09:00 |
| 05:00 | 10:00 |
| 06:00 | 11:00 |
| 07:00 | 12:00 |
| 08:00 | 13:00 |
| 09:00 | 14:00 |
| 10:00 | 15:00 |
| 11:00 | 16:00 |
| 12:00 | 17:00 |
| 13:00 | 18:00 |
| 14:00 | 19:00 |
| 15:00 | 20:00 |
| 16:00 | 21:00 |
| 17:00 | 22:00 |
| 18:00 | 23:00 |
| 19:00 | 00:00 |
| 20:00 | 01:00 |
| 21:00 | 02:00 |
| 22:00 | 03:00 |
| 23:00 | 04:00 |
Eastern Daylight Time
Offset: EDT is 4 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America
Countries using this time zone: Bahamas, Canada, Haiti, Turks & Caicos Is, United States
Principal Cities: The largest city in the EDT time zone is New York City in the United States, with about 8.175 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Toronto, Montreal, Brooklyn, Borough of Queens.
French: HAE - Heure Avancée de l'Est
Spanish: EDT - Tiempo de verano del Este, ET - Zona Sureste

Daylight Saving: Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) is a daylight saving/summer time zone. During winter, some places set clocks back one hour and observe Eastern Standard Time (EST).
Start: Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) started on Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 14, 2021, 3:00 am. Daylight saving starts annually on the second Sunday of March
End: Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) ends on Sunday, November 7, 2021 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, November 7, 2021, 1:00 am local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually on the first Sunday of November
EDT representations, usage and related time zones
- -04 - basic short
- -0400 - basic
- -04:00 - extended
- -0400 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (04) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of four hours to the west of the zero meridian.
- Quebec - Military abbreviation for EDT
- Q - short form of 'Quebec'
- America/Detroit
- America/Fort_Wayne
- America/Grand_Turk
- America/Indiana/Indianapolis
- America/Indiana/Marengo
- America/Indiana/Petersburg
- America/Indiana/Vevay
- America/Indiana/Vincennes
- America/Indiana/Winamac
- America/Indianapolis
- America/Iqaluit
- America/Kentucky/Louisville
- America/Kentucky/Monticello
- America/Louisville
- America/Montreal
- America/Nassau
- America/New_York
- America/Nipigon
- America/Pangnirtung
- America/Port-au-Prince
- America/Thunder_Bay
- America/Toronto
- Canada/Eastern
- EST5EDT
- US/East-Indiana
- US/Eastern
- US/Michigan
- AST - Atlantic Standard Time
- EDT - Eastern Daylight Time
- AMT - Amazon Time
- BOT - Bolivia Time
- CDT - Cuba Daylight Time
- CLT - Chile Standard Time
- FKT - Falkland Island Time
- GYT - Guyana Time
- HLV - Hora Legal de Venezuela
- PYT - Paraguay Time
- Q - Quebec Time Zone
- VET - Venezuelan Standard Time
London Information
Time Zone
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
+0:00 hours during Greenwich Mean Time.
Sunday, March 29, 2026 at 1:00 am local time. DST starts annually on the last Sunday of March. Clocks are turned forward 1 hour to Sunday, March 29, 2026 at 2:00 am local daylight time instead. Also called Spring Forward or Summer Time.
Sunday, October 25, 2026 at 2:00 am local time. DST ends annually on the last Sunday of October. Clocks are turned backward 1 hour to Sunday, October 25, 2026 at 1:00 am local standard time instead. Also called Fall Back or switch to Winter Time.