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🇩🇪 Berlin (UTC+2) · 🇺🇸 Chicago (UTC−5) · 7 hours difference — Berlin is ahead
Best Time to Meet
🇩🇪 16:00–17:00 in Berlin = 🇺🇸 09:00–10:00 in Chicago1 hour of overlap within standard business hours (09:00–17:00)
24-Hour Schedule
| City | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
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| 🇩🇪 Berlin | 02:00 | 03:00 | 04:00 | 05:00 | 06:00 | 07:00 | 08:00 | 09:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 | 00:00 | 01:00 |
| 🇺🇸 Chicago | 19:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 | 00:00 | 01:00 | 02:00 | 03:00 | 04:00 | 05:00 | 06:00 | 07:00 | 08:00 | 09:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 |
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Open Meeting Planner →Berlin is a startups city and Chicago a finance and derivatives city; the two economies buy from each other rather than compete. The gap is 7 hours, with Berlin the one whose clock reads later.
Both cities work Monday to Friday, Berlin typically 09:00–17:00 and Chicago 08:30–17:30 local time. On the Berlin side the dates that break a schedule are German Unity Day (3 October) and Easter Monday (March or April); on the Chicago side, Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday of November, with the Friday) and Independence Day (4 July).
Only 1 office hour overlap — 16:00–17:00 in Berlin, 09:00–10:00 in Chicago — so recurring meetings should hold that slot and everything else can go asynchronous. Both cities change their clocks, on different dates, so the gap is an hour off for a few weeks each spring and autumn.
Berlin is 7 hours ahead of Chicago. The gap changes by an hour around the clock changes.
16:00–17:00 Berlin time, which is 09:00–10:00 in Chicago — the 1-hour stretch when both are inside 09:00–17:00.
Both work Monday to Friday, so any weekday works.
For the working day, yes — the gap is not wide enough to push office hours across midnight.
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