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🇫🇷 Paris (UTC+1) · 🇺🇸 Chicago (UTC−5) · 6 hours difference — Paris is ahead
Best Time to Meet
🇫🇷 15:00–17:00 in Paris = 🇺🇸 09:00–11:00 in Chicago2 hours 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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| 🇫🇷 Paris | 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 | 19:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 | 00:00 |
| 🇺🇸 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 |
Quick Reference
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Open Meeting Planner →Paris and Chicago share consulting as core industries, which is where the traffic between them comes from. The gap is 6 hours, with Paris the one whose clock reads later.
Both cities work Monday to Friday, Paris typically 09:00–18:00 and Chicago 08:30–17:30 local time. Watch for Bastille Day (14 July) and Assumption (15 August) in Paris and Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday of November, with the Friday) and Independence Day (4 July) in Chicago. Replies slow in Paris during August and in Chicago during Thanksgiving week and the last week of December.
The shared window is short: 15:00–17:00 Paris time, 09:00–11:00 in Chicago. Guard it for the conversations that need everyone, and let the rest happen in writing. Both cities change their clocks, on different dates, so the gap is an hour off for a few weeks each spring and autumn.
Paris is 6 hours ahead of Chicago. The gap changes by an hour around the clock changes.
15:00–17:00 Paris time, which is 09:00–11:00 in Chicago — the 2-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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