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What is MyWorldCupTime?

An independent timezone converter and watchability planner for all 104 matches at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Pick your timezone, set the hours you're actually free to watch, and every match gets a colour: green if the kickoff fits your day, amber if it's tight, red if you'd be at work or asleep, blue if you'd need to be a true die-hard (midnight to 5 AM in your timezone).

With games spread across 16 host cities in the USA, Canada and Mexico — across four different timezones from Pacific to Atlantic — figuring out when you can actually watch a match has never been this hard. This tool does the math so you don't have to.

About the author

I was born in the Netherlands and caught the World Cup bug in 1994. Gheorghe Hagi against Colombia, that absurd goal from the halfway line; something rewired in my brain and never reset. I remember getting up at unholy hours as a kid to watch Oranje versus Saudi Arabia, half-asleep, completely electric. What stayed with me wasn't only the football. It was the strange parade of cultures the World Cup hauls into one room every four years: Romania-Argentina in the round of 16, Hagi pulling the strings, was one of the great matches of my life. Then Roberto Baggio, alone in the centre circle, ballooning that penalty over the bar in the Pasadena heat. The whole game has everything: tactics, tragedy, theatre.

The Netherlands had a real shot in 1998, but Zidane's star burned brightest of anyone's that summer (and yes — we should have had a penalty against Brazil in regulation). Then came our own long penalty-shootout heartbreak. I've moved across continents since, lived in different time zones, and the World Cup has stayed the metronome of my life: I can place almost any year by which tournament was on. (Where was I in summer 2010? I had just moved from Berlin to Amsterdam, and I watched the final from there as Iniesta's goal broke another generation of Dutch fans.)

For 2026 I live less than eight hours' drive from the host city of the final (New York / New Jersey). I will not be paying FIFA's extortionary ticket prices, so I'll be watching on TV like everyone else, fitting matches around real life. Doing that across four host-country timezones is genuinely difficult. So I built this site — partly to learn how to ship a fast, accessible, multilingual football site, partly to give something back to the people who make this game what it is. Hope you enjoy it. And enjoy the World Cup.