What timeanddate.com does

Time and Date AS, operating as timeanddate.com, is a Norwegian privately-held company founded in 1995 and headquartered in Stavanger. The company operates a global, multi-language reference platform for time, date, calendar, weather, and astronomy information, serving general consumers, business users managing cross-timezone coordination, website owners embedding free clock widgets, and media/education audiences seeking reliable astronomical event coverage. The platform encompasses a suite of interconnected tools: World Clock, Time Zone Converter, Meeting Planner, Event Time Announcer, DST guides, printable calendars with country-specific holidays, weather forecasts, sun/moon calculators, and live eclipse streams from a global mobile observatory.

The underlying technology comprises a proprietary time and date calculation engine with DST algorithms, a comprehensive global time zone database, and astronomical event calculations covering eclipses, moon phases, and sunrise/sunset data spanning 1900 to 2199. The company distributes its services through its website, native iOS and Android mobile apps, a developer Time/Holiday API, and free embeddable HTML clock widgets deployed across third-party websites. The business model is primarily advertising-supported, supplemented by a paid Supporter subscription (ad-free browsing, precise sun/moon times, exclusive PDF calendar templates) and modest enterprise API revenue. The company remains independent and privately held, with founder Steffen Thorsen serving as CEO, and operates with a lean 11-50 person team supporting a product suite used by a global audience.

Name

timeanddate.com

Legal name

Time and Date AS

Website

https://timeanddate.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

timeanddate.com is a Norwegian, privately-held reference platform offering global time, date, calendar, weather, and astronomy tools to consumers, business users, and developers via web, mobile, and API channels since 1995.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Time and Date Reference Platform

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Email, Calendar & Scheduling (BPAMAMAC)

Keywords

• Time zone conversion
• World clock tools
• Calendar generators
• Astronomical calculations
• Daylight saving time

Headquarters

HQ city

Stavanger

HQ country

Norway

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

timeanddate.com operates a comprehensive online information platform providing time, date, calendar, weather, and astronomy data through a suite of interconnected web tools, mobile apps, embeddable widgets, and developer APIs. The platform serves global users with world clocks, time zone converters, meeting planners, customizable calendars, sunrise/sunset and moon phase calculators, eclipse tracking with live streams, and weather forecasts. A paid Supporter subscription removes advertising and unlocks additional precision features.

Product overview

timeanddate.com is a comprehensive time and date information platform offering a unified suite of interconnected tools. The core offerings include the World Clock for global time tracking, Time Zone tools (converter, meeting planner, event announcer, map, abbreviations), Calendar (printable PDFs, holiday tracking, moon phases), Weather forecasts, Sun/Moon & Space astronomy tools (including eclipse tracking and live streams), Timers (stopwatch, countdown), and Date Calculators. Additional services include free embeddable clock widgets for websites, paid Supporter membership for ad-free browsing with enhanced precision, mobile apps for iOS and Android, a developer Time/Holiday API, and a newsletter. The platform serves as a one-stop resource for time, date, weather, and astronomy information globally.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• World Clock Main world clock tool showing current local time in cities around the world with weather, sun, and moon data, designed for general consumers needing quick global time lookups.
• Personal World Clock Personalized world clock that lets individual users save and track current time of favorite locations across time zones.
• Time Zone Converter Calculator that converts time differences between places and time zones, accounting for DST and local time zones, accepting present, past, or future dates, for individuals and business users.
• Meeting Planner Tool to find the best time to have a meeting across different time zones worldwide, for business users and remote teams.
• Event Time Announcer Calculator and share tool that shows local times worldwide for events, webinars, webcasts, or conferences, for event organizers and participants.
• Time Zone Map Interactive world map showing time zones with DST changes in real time, displaying time zone boundaries and city locations for general users and educators.
• Time Zone Abbreviations Comprehensive reference list of all world time zones and their abbreviations, names, locations, and UTC offsets for general reference use.
• Daylight Saving Time Tools Comprehensive guide and tools for Daylight Saving Time including clock changes, history, pros and cons, and DST statistics worldwide for general users.
• Calendar Customizable and printable calendar for any year, month, or period with support for multiple country calendars, holidays, and moon phases, for individual users.
• Weather Weather forecasts including current weather, 2-week forecasts, hour-by-hour forecasts, and climate data for locations worldwide for general consumers.
• Sun, Moon & Space (Astronomy) Astronomy tools including sun calculator, moon calculator, moon phases, night sky maps, meteor showers, eclipses, and sunrise/sunset times for general consumers and astronomy enthusiasts.
• Eclipse Live Streams Live streaming service for astronomical events including solar and lunar eclipses, with travel to observatories globally, for general audiences and media outlets.
• Timers (Stopwatch, Timer, Countdown) Online timers including stopwatch with lap times, countdown timer with alarm, and customizable countdowns to any date for general consumer use.
• Date Calculators Various date calculation tools including date-to-date duration, business date excluding holidays, date addition/subtraction, weekday calculator, and week number calculator for general consumer and business use.
• Free Clocks for Website Embeddable HTML clock widgets for websites and blogs with customization options including styles, colors, fonts, time zones, and DST auto-adjustment, for web developers and publishers.
• Supporter/Paid Services Paid subscription offering ad-free browsing, precise sun and moon times to the second, and exclusive PDF calendar templates for individual users.
• World Clock Mobile Apps (iOS & Android) Mobile applications for iPhone/iPad and Android providing world clock functionality with advanced features, distributed via the App Store and Google Play.
• Newsletter Free monthly email newsletter with updates on sky events, time zones, calendars, holidays, and seasonal events for individual subscribers.
• Time API and Holiday API Services Developer API services for getting time at any given coordinate on Earth, calculating time zone conversions, and accessing holiday data, with documentation at dev.timeanddate.com, for software developers and enterprise integrators.

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• GreenwichMeanTime.com: Direct peer providing world clocks, time zone information, and calendar tools. Targets the same general-consumer audience seeking authoritative time references globally.
• time.is: Direct peer focused on displaying precise current local time worldwide with synchronization checks. Competes head-on with timeanddate.com's world clock feature for users seeking authoritative time displays.
• 24timezones.com: Direct peer providing world clocks, time zone converters, and calendar tools to a global consumer audience. Mirrors timeanddate.com's freemium utility model with a similarly broad, time-zone-focused product portfolio.
• World Time Buddy: Direct competitor in cross-timezone meeting planning and visual time comparison. Like timeanddate.com, it targets professionals coordinating across time zones but with a narrower product surface and no broader calendar/astronomy suite.
• TheTimeNow: Direct peer offering current time, time zone converters, and calendar utilities worldwide. Closely overlaps timeanddate.com's core offerings for casual consumers searching for local times abroad.

Broad incumbents

• Google Clock: Broad incumbent providing world clock, timers, alarms and stopwatch functionality as a default Android experience. Competes with timeanddate.com on every consumer touchpoint within the Android ecosystem.
• Apple Clock: Broad incumbent bundling world clock, stopwatch, timer, alarms, and bedtimes into iOS/macOS. Represents the most material substitution risk to timeanddate.com's consumer utility traffic on Apple devices.

Emerging players

• Wolfram Alpha: Emerging player offering computational answers across time, calendar, astronomy and unit conversion. Partial overlap with timeanddate.com's calculators and astronomy tools, particularly for power users and students.
• Every Time Zone: Emerging, design-led time zone comparison tool used by distributed teams. Competes with timeanddate.com's meeting planner and time zone converter for tech-savvy remote-team scheduling use cases.

Others

• timeanddate.com API / dev.timeanddate.com: Internal reference — included only to note that competing developer-facing time and holiday data APIs (e.g., Abstract API, TimeZoneDB, Google Time Zone API) represent the closest comparables for the company's enterprise/API monetization path.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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