How long until 5pm?

How long until 5pm, or whenever your day ends, in your own time zone. Set your end time once and it stays set. After it passes, the clock counts down to the end of your next workday.

How long till home time?

until 5 pm.

Your hours

9 am to 5 pm

Day starts Day ends

Counted in your own time zone.

How long the working day runs

How long people work now

US full-time workers put in 8.5 hours on the weekdays they worked.

Average time at work	Hours
US full-timers, on a weekend day they worked	5.5
UK full-timers, per week	36.7
Australian workers, part-timers included, per week	about 31

When the day ends

Workplace tracking software now logs the average workday ending before 5.

Tracked average	Time
Workday	8 am to 4:39 pm
Workday end in 2022	5:21 pm, 42 minutes later
First activity at the keyboard	7:48 am, down from 8:02
Log-off on a US Friday	4:03 pm

Fridays finish earliest, and how long until Friday counts down to the end of yours.

The last minutes before 5

Work until 5 and you’re still at your desk 21 minutes after the average workday ends. Spend them standing near your coat, or skip them with one of our excuses to leave work early.

If you work from home, a mouse jiggler on a plug timer is the low-tech way to keep Teams active. Set the timer to cut the power at 5, and your status turns yellow like the rest of the team’s.

Meetings between 9 and 5

Half of all meetings land between 9 and 11 am or between 1 and 3 pm, the day’s two busiest stretches. Clocking out at 5 doesn’t stop the meetings or the chats.

Work after 5	Figure
Meetings starting after 8 pm	up 16% in a year
Chats sent outside the weekday 9 to 5	up 15%, to 58 per person
Active workers back in their inbox by 10 pm	29%

Working hours in law

The legal working week

The US sets no cap on weekly hours for workers 16 and over. Overtime is counted by the workweek, which is any fixed 168 hours in a row that your employer chooses.

Country	Weekly hours
US	40, then at least time and a half per extra hour for non-exempt employees
UK	48 on average over 17 weeks, unless you sign an opt-out
UK, under-18s	8 a day and 40 a week
Australia	38, plus reasonable extra hours when your employer asks

5pm across US time zones

How long until 5pm in EST, CST and PST

This clock counts to 5 pm in your own time zone, or to the end time you set under Your hours. If your shift ends at a different hour, try how long until 3pm, until 4pm or until 6pm.

Mainland US time zone	5 pm Eastern is
Central	4 pm
Mountain	3 pm
Pacific	2 pm

Hawaii and most of Arizona keep the same time all year. So in summer, Phoenix is on Los Angeles time, and 5 pm in New York is 11 am in Honolulu. The Navajo Nation is the one part of Arizona that changes its clocks.

Questions about the 9 to 5

How long is it from 9am to 5pm?

Eight hours. Under US federal rules, a meal break of 30 minutes or more with no duties isn't work time, so an unpaid lunch hour leaves seven paid hours.

How long until 5:30 PM today?

From 3 pm it's 2 hours 30 minutes, and from 4:45 pm it's 45 minutes. For a clock that counts to 5:30 pm every workday, set the Day ends field to 5:30 under Your hours.

How long until 5pm in the UK?

For most of the year, the UK's 5 pm is noon in New York and 9 am in Los Angeles. The gap is an hour shorter for a few weeks, because the US changes its clocks on a different weekend from the UK. Those weeks run from the second Sunday of March to the last Sunday of March, and from the last Sunday of October to the first Sunday of November.

How many hours is a 9 to 5?

Eight a day and 40 over a five-day week, or 35 paid hours when the lunch hour is unpaid. Ford was the first major employer to adopt the five-day, 40-hour week, on May 1, 1926, so it turned 100 in 2026.

How long is it from 5pm to 9am?

16 hours, from the end of one 9 to 5 to the start of the next. Over a weekend, 5 pm Friday to 9 am Monday is 64 hours.

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