Flight Arrival Time Calculator

Flight arrival times for popular routes

These arrival times come from the calculator above for a 10:00 AM local departure on January 12, 2027, using our own rounded estimates of typical flight times. Airlines schedule each flight differently, so use the time on your own ticket and treat this table as a guide to how the day shifts. Several routes move by an hour in summer, because zones change their clocks on different dates, or not at all.

Look at the last row. A flight that leaves Sydney at 10:00 AM and spends 13 hours 45 minutes in the air lands at 4:45 AM on the same date, which is 5 hours 15 minutes earlier than it left by the clock. Los Angeles is 19 hours behind Sydney in January. The date line section below explains how that works.

What flight arrival time means

A flight arrival local time calculator answers one question: what will the clock at the destination airport say when you land? That's the arrival time on your ticket, and it isn't your home time, and it isn't the time where you took off. That's why a ticket showing a 9:00 PM departure and a 9:00 AM arrival can be a 7-hour flight: the clocks at the two airports are five hours apart.

Landing time and arrival time aren't quite the same thing either, so a flight landing time calculator and an arrival time calculator can differ by the taxi to the gate. This one gives the arrival time. The plane touches down, then taxis to the gate, and airlines publish the time it reaches the gate. If someone is collecting you, count from the arrival time and add the walk to baggage claim. A "+1" beside the arrival time on a ticket means you land on the next calendar day.

How to calculate flight arrival time by hand

For any international flight arrival time, work in UTC so the time zones can't trip you up. Take New York to London, leaving at 9:00 PM on January 12, 2027, with a 7-hour flight.

1. New York is UTC-5 in January, so 9:00 PM there is 2:00 AM UTC on January 13.
2. Add the 7 hours of flying to get 9:00 AM UTC.
3. London is on UTC+0 in January, so it's 9:00 AM on January 13 in London.

In July the answer is the same, because both cities have moved their clocks forward an hour and the gap is still five hours. The calculator runs the same three steps and shows the UTC times, so you can check its work against yours.

The daylight saving trap: when New York to London is only four hours

The US moves its clocks on the second Sunday in March. The UK moves on the last Sunday in March. In 2027 that leaves two weeks, March 14 to March 28, when New York is on summer time and London is still on winter time, so the gap is four hours instead of five. Leave New York at 9:00 PM on March 16, 2027, fly for 7 hours, and you land at 8:00 AM London time, not 9:00 AM.

It happens again in the fall, for a shorter window. The UK goes back on the last Sunday in October (October 31, 2027) and the US goes back on the first Sunday in November (November 7, 2027), so for one week the gap is four hours again. Depart on November 3, 2027 and the same flight lands at 8:00 AM.

Anyone who keeps a "five hours ahead" rule in their head gets these weeks wrong, which is why a flight arrival time zone calculator has to use the rules for your travel date, not a fixed number of hours. When your dates fall in a window like this, this calculator shows a note with the gap it used. The Time Zone Converter covers how daylight saving rules differ by country.

The date line: skipping a day, or landing before you left

Flying west across the Pacific, toward Asia or Australia, you lose a calendar day. Leave Los Angeles at 10:30 PM on Tuesday, January 12, 2027 and fly about 15 hours. In Los Angeles that takes you to 1:30 PM on Wednesday, but Sydney is 19 hours ahead of Los Angeles in January, so the clock in Sydney reads 8:30 AM on Thursday. Wednesday never happens for you.

Flying east back across the date line gives the day back, and sometimes more. Leave Tokyo at 12:30 AM on Tuesday, January 12, 2027 and spend about 10 hours in the air. Tokyo is 17 hours ahead of Los Angeles in January, so you left at 7:30 AM Monday Los Angeles time and you land at 5:30 PM on Monday. By the clock you arrived before you left. In real time you didn't. The Day Change box in the results shows when this happens.

Flight arrival time with a layover

To use a flight departure arrival time calculator for a connecting trip, add up every hour between the first takeoff and the final landing: the first flight, the wait on the ground and the second flight. Convert once at the end. The layover can be in a third time zone and it doesn't change the sum.

Take New York to Dubai through London, leaving at 7:00 PM on January 12, 2027. The first flight takes 7 hours, the wait in London is 2 hours and the second flight takes 7 hours 10 minutes. That's 16 hours 10 minutes in total, so you land at 8:10 PM on Wednesday, January 13, Dubai time. In the calculator, enter 14 hours 10 minutes as the flight duration (7 hours plus 7 hours 10 minutes) and 2 hours as the layover. If a connection is missed and you're rebooked, use the new flight times and run the numbers again.

Flight arrival times in the UK, Australia and Canada

London isn't a fixed number of hours from everywhere. Dubai is four hours ahead of London in winter and three in summer, and India is five and a half hours ahead in winter and four and a half in summer, because the UAE and India don't change their clocks and the UK does.

Australia runs on several clock rules. New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT move forward on the first Sunday in October and back on the first Sunday in April. Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia never change. So a 2-hour flight from Sydney to Brisbane leaving at 10:00 AM lands at 11:00 AM Brisbane time in January and 12:00 PM in July. The calculator lists Sydney and Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Darwin, each with its own rules.

Canada has one zone that catches people out. Newfoundland, including St. John's, runs half an hour ahead of Atlantic time, so St. John's is an hour and a half ahead of Toronto all year. Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver are in the zone list too.

Flight arrival time is not the time to be at the airport

This calculator tells you when your plane lands. That's a different job from an airport arrival time calculator or a flight check-in time calculator, which tell you when to be at the airport. For check-in and security timing, use your airline's guidance for your airport and route.

After you land: jet lag

When the Time Zone Shift box shows a difference of three hours or more, the calculator adds a jet lag note with a rough recovery estimate of its own. The usual rule of thumb, which the OHSU Brain Institute gives, is one day of recovery per time zone crossed flying east and one day per one and a half zones flying west. East is harder because it asks your body clock to start earlier, and that's harder than starting later. On a long trip, add those recovery days to your plan. The Vacation Budget Calculator covers the cost of an extra night.