City-Time Zone Match

This matching activity helps students connect major world cities to their correct UTC offsets. Learners match ten global cities-including New York, London, Sydney, and Tokyo-to their respective time zones. The extension prompt encourages reasoning about why UTC is used as the global “center” of time measurement. This exercise develops map-based reasoning and awareness of how standardized time facilitates international cooperation.

Curriculum Matched Skills

Geography – Global Time Zones and Coordinates

Math – Time Difference Interpretation

Social Studies – Standardization and Globalization Concepts

English Language Arts – Matching and Analytical Writing

This worksheet is part of our Time Zones and Their Basis collection.