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UTC+1 Europe/Paris · UTC+1 in January, UTC+2 in July

Photo: Yann Caradec from Paris, France, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

US Eastern team 2–3 h shared 9–5 · their day is 15:00–23:00 here
US Pacific team 0 h shared 9–5 · their day is 18:00–02:00 here
UK team 7 h shared 9–5 · their day is 10:00–18:00 here
Central Europe team 8 h shared 9–5 · their day is 09:00–17:00 here
Price level 83 High: household prices France-wide vs US = 100 (2025)
Comfortable months 7 / 12 April–October

Your team's working day, on Paris's clock

Today (1 November 2026). Each bar is 24 hours of local time in Paris; the shaded column is a local 9–5.

Employer's 9–5 Overlap with your 9–5 Your 9–5 Night (22–7)

US Eastern 15:00–23:00
2 h
US Pacific 18:00–02:00
0 h
UK 10:00–18:00
7 h
Central Europe 09:00–17:00
8 h

Clock changes ahead in Paris: 28 Mar 2027 → UTC+2; 31 Oct 2027 → UTC+1. Employers' clocks change on their own dates, which is why shared hours shift for a few weeks each spring and autumn.

Shared hours through the year

Hours of a 9–5 in both places that coincide, lowest–highest across each month's working days. "Awake" stretches your day to 7:00–22:00.

MonthUS EasternUS PacificUKCentral Europe
Jan2 h awake 7 h0 h awake 4 h7 h awake 8 h8 h awake 8 h
Feb2 h awake 7 h0 h awake 4 h7 h awake 8 h8 h awake 8 h
Mar2–3 h awake 7–8 h0 h awake 4–5 h7 h awake 8 h8 h awake 8 h
Apr2 h awake 7 h0 h awake 4 h7 h awake 8 h8 h awake 8 h
May2 h awake 7 h0 h awake 4 h7 h awake 8 h8 h awake 8 h
Jun2 h awake 7 h0 h awake 4 h7 h awake 8 h8 h awake 8 h
Jul2 h awake 7 h0 h awake 4 h7 h awake 8 h8 h awake 8 h
Aug2 h awake 7 h0 h awake 4 h7 h awake 8 h8 h awake 8 h
Sep2 h awake 7 h0 h awake 4 h7 h awake 8 h8 h awake 8 h
Oct2–3 h awake 7–8 h0 h awake 4–5 h7 h awake 8 h8 h awake 8 h
Nov2 h awake 7 h0 h awake 4 h7 h awake 8 h8 h awake 8 h
Dec2 h awake 7 h0 h awake 4 h7 h awake 8 h8 h awake 8 h

Weather for working, month by month

January: Poor (0.4), high 8°C8°JanFebruary: Poor (1.3), high 9°C9°FebMarch: Poor (4.7), high 13°C13°MarApril: Good (7.7), high 17°C17°AprMay: Great (10.0), high 21°C21°MayJune: Great (10.0), high 24°C24°JunJuly: Great (10.0), high 26°C26°JulAugust: Great (10.0), high 26°C26°AugSeptember: Great (10.0), high 22°C22°SepOctober: Good (7.6), high 17°C17°OctNovember: Poor (3.6), high 12°C12°NovDecember: Poor (0.8), high 8°C8°Dec

GreatGoodFairPoor How the score works

MonthHighLowRainDew pointDaylightScore
Jan8°C3°C52 mm6°C dry8.5 h0.4
Feb9°C3°C46 mm5°C dry9.9 h1.3
Mar13°C5°C52 mm5°C dry11.6 h4.7
Apr17°C7°C50 mm5°C dry13.5 h7.7
May21°C10°C61 mm9°C dry15.1 h10.0
Jun24°C14°C50 mm12°C comfortable15.9 h10.0
Jul26°C16°C62 mm13°C comfortable15.6 h10.0
Aug26°C16°C51 mm13°C comfortable14.2 h10.0
Sep22°C12°C46 mm12°C comfortable12.3 h10.0
Oct17°C10°C67 mm11°C comfortable10.5 h7.6
Nov12°C6°C57 mm8°C dry8.9 h3.6
Dec8°C4°C65 mm6°C dry8.1 h0.8

TerraClimate 1991–2020 averages for the ~4 km grid cell. Daylight is computed for mid-month.

Getting there and settling in

Population
2,103,778 (2023)
Elevation
48 m
Airports
Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG), 22 km
Orly Airport (ORY), 15 km
Paris–Le Bourget Airport (LBG), 13 km
Time zone
Europe/Paris
Visas
Rules depend on your passport and change often; NomadCritic does not summarise them. Check France's official government or embassy website.
Read more
Paris on Wikipedia

Travel advice

US: Level 2 Exercise Increased Caution. State Department

UK FCDO No FCDO advice against travel. Updated 2026-10-22. GOV.UK

Checked 2026-11-01 (US) and 2026-11-01 (UK). Read the official advice before you go.

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