Date & Time

Timezone by City API

Resolve a city name to its IANA time zone and current local time, disambiguating by population.

Request Headers

Name	Required	Description
`X-RapidAPI-Key`	required	Your RapidAPI key. Get one free.
`X-RapidAPI-Host`	required	`timezone-by-city.p.rapidapi.com`

Endpoints

GET /v1/time/zone

Look up the IANA time zone and current local time of a city

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Default	Constraints
`city`	string	required	—	matches \S
`country`	string	optional	—	—

Code Examples

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://timezone-by-city.p.rapidapi.com/v1/time/zone?city=example' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: timezone-by-city.p.rapidapi.com'

const url = "https://timezone-by-city.p.rapidapi.com/v1/time/zone?city=example";
const options = {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "x-rapidapi-host": "timezone-by-city.p.rapidapi.com"
  }
};

const response = await fetch(url, options);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

url = "https://timezone-by-city.p.rapidapi.com/v1/time/zone"

querystring = {"city": "example"}

headers = {
    "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "x-rapidapi-host": "timezone-by-city.p.rapidapi.com"
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=querystring)

print(response.json())

GET /v1/time/zone/countries

List all countries with timezone data in the dataset, sorted alphabetically by ISO code.

Code Examples

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://timezone-by-city.p.rapidapi.com/v1/time/zone/countries' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: timezone-by-city.p.rapidapi.com'

const url = "https://timezone-by-city.p.rapidapi.com/v1/time/zone/countries";
const options = {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "x-rapidapi-host": "timezone-by-city.p.rapidapi.com"
  }
};

const response = await fetch(url, options);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

url = "https://timezone-by-city.p.rapidapi.com/v1/time/zone/countries"

headers = {
    "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "x-rapidapi-host": "timezone-by-city.p.rapidapi.com"
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.json())

Interactive Example

timezone-by-city

$ GET /v1/time/zone?city=London
{"city":"London","country":"GB","timezone":"Europe/London","current_time":"2026-07-02T13:00:00+01:00","utc_offset":"+01:00"}

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