What Is Today's Date and Time?
See today's date, what day it is today, and the current time in one place, with common date formats, week number, UTC time, and Unix timestamp.
Today is Thursday, August 20, 2026, and the current time is 20:23:55 UTC. This clock adjusts to your local time zone automatically.
Thursday, August 20, 2026 UTC
20:23:55
UTC
Day of Year
232
Week Number
34
Year Progress
63.6% elapsed
ISO 8601
2026-08-20T20:23:55.874Z
Unix Timestamp
1787257435
Use this page to quickly check the date today, the current time, the day of the week, week number, and common date formats.
Quick Date Answers
Today's Date
Thursday, August 20, 2026
Day of the Week
Thursday
Yesterday
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Tomorrow
Friday, August 21, 2026
Days Left in Year
133
Quarter
Q3
Leap Year
No
Julian Day Number
2461273
Day Progress
85.0%
Month Progress
64.5%
Week Progress
57.1%
Use the written date for notes, reminders, and documents. Use numeric and ISO formats when copying today’s date into forms, spreadsheets, filenames, logs, or software.
Today's Date in Numbers and Formats
- ISO 8601 date
- 2026-08-20
- US date (MM/DD/YYYY)
- 08/20/2026
- European date (DD/MM/YYYY)
- 20/08/2026
- Email / RFC 2822
- Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:23:55 GMT
- Unix timestamp
- 1787257435
- Day of year
- 232 / 365
- ISO week
- Week 34
- Julian day number
- 2461273
ISO 8601 is usually safest for databases, filenames, spreadsheets, and international documents because it avoids month/day ambiguity and sorts correctly as text.
This Week and This Month
This Week
- ISO week number
- Week 34
- Week starts
- Aug 17
- Week ends
- Aug 23
- Week progress
- 57.1%
This Month
- Month
- August 2026
- Days in month
- 31
- Days remaining
- 11
- Month progress
- 64.5%
How to Use Today's Date and Time
When people search for today’s date, they usually need a quick answer they can use in a form, document, schedule, message, or calendar. The written date is easiest to read, the numeric date is common on forms, and the ISO date is best when the date needs to be clear across countries or computer systems.
“What day is it today?” is a slightly different question. The day of the week matters for appointments, school or work schedules, payroll cutoffs, delivery dates, travel plans, and recurring reminders. If you are planning across countries or working close to midnight, check the relevant local time rather than assuming every place is still on the same date.
For everyday use, local date and time are usually what you want. For shared records, logs, APIs, timestamps, and international coordination, UTC and ISO 8601 are safer because they reduce ambiguity. That is why this page shows the current date and time alongside UTC time, ISO format, week number, day of year, and Unix timestamp.
Current Time Around the World
Quick city clocks for common international time checks.
Los Angeles
13:23
Thu, Aug 20
New York
16:23
Thu, Aug 20
London
21:23
Thu, Aug 20
Paris
22:23
Thu, Aug 20
Dubai
00:23
Fri, Aug 21
Mumbai
01:53
Fri, Aug 21
Tokyo
05:23
Fri, Aug 21
Sydney
06:23
Fri, Aug 21
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Useful Date and Time Answers
What week number is it?
The current ISO week number is 34. You can also check any other date with the week number calculator.
What is the current Unix timestamp?
The current Unix timestamp is 1787257435. To convert another value, use the Unix timestamp converter.
How do I count days between two dates?
Enter a start date and an end date in the days calculator. It counts the exact number of calendar days and can also add or subtract days from today.
How do I check the time in another country?
Choose your city and the other location in the time zone converter to compare the correct local times side by side.
Quick Time Facts
- There are 86,400 seconds in a day, equal to 1,440 minutes or 24 hours.
- UTC is the global reference time standard, and time zones are expressed as offsets from it.
- Unix timestamps count seconds since January 1, 1970 at 00:00:00 UTC, which is why they are common in software and APIs.
- ISO 8601 reduces date ambiguity by using machine-friendly formats like
YYYY-MM-DDandYYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ. - Leap years usually occur every four years, but century years must also be divisible by 400 to qualify.