What Time Is the World Cup 2026 Final? Kickoff in Every Major Time Zone

The 2026 FIFA World Cup final is scheduled for Sunday 19 July 2026 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, with a published kickoff of 15:00 local Eastern Time (19:00 UTC). Here's what that means everywhere people will actually be watching.

Americas

• New York / Miami / Toronto: 15:00, Sun 19 Jul (EDT, UTC−4)
• Mexico City: 13:00, Sun 19 Jul (CST, UTC−6, no DST)
• Chicago / Dallas / Houston: 14:00, Sun 19 Jul (CDT, UTC−5)
• Los Angeles / Vancouver / Seattle: 12:00 noon, Sun 19 Jul (PDT, UTC−7)
• Buenos Aires / São Paulo: 16:00, Sun 19 Jul (UTC−3)

Europe & Africa

• London / Lisbon: 20:00, Sun 19 Jul (BST, UTC+1)
• Paris / Madrid / Berlin / Rome: 21:00, Sun 19 Jul (CEST, UTC+2)
• Athens / Istanbul / Cairo / Johannesburg: 22:00, Sun 19 Jul (UTC+3)
• Lagos / Casablanca: 20:00, Sun 19 Jul (UTC+1)

Middle East & Asia

• Riyadh / Doha: 22:00, Sun 19 Jul (UTC+3)
• Dubai: 23:00, Sun 19 Jul (UTC+4)
• Mumbai / Delhi: 00:30, Mon 20 Jul (IST, UTC+5:30)
• Bangkok / Jakarta: 02:00, Mon 20 Jul (UTC+7)
• Singapore / Hong Kong / Shanghai: 03:00, Mon 20 Jul (UTC+8)
• Tokyo / Seoul: 04:00, Mon 20 Jul (UTC+9)

Oceania

• Sydney / Melbourne: 05:00, Mon 20 Jul (AEST, UTC+10 — winter, no DST)
• Auckland: 07:00, Mon 20 Jul (NZST, UTC+12)
• Perth: 03:00, Mon 20 Jul (AWST, UTC+8)

Verify your own city

To double-check for a city not listed above — or to share the conversion with friends — open the converter pre-filled with the final's kickoff and add your own zone as a destination. The result is a shareable URL that re-creates the same conversion for anyone who opens it.

Related reading

• All 16 host cities and their time zones
• When to watch World Cup matches from London, Tokyo, Sydney and beyond
• UTC vs GMT explained — why we list times as UTC offsets here.

Official sources

• FIFA: 2026 World Cup match schedule
• IANA Time Zone Database