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Where to base yourself for remote work

Live in one place, work with a team in another. Each guide scores a base city on how well its day overlaps with your team's, the number that decides whether remote life there is sustainable or a nightly grind. Pick a pairing below.

Where are you now?

Set it once and the planner below opens with your city, so you can try any move against the team you actually work with.

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You'd live in
works with →
Your team is in
Lisbonyour day
09:00–18:00 local
New Yorktheir day
09:00–17:00 local
Sharedboth at work
4h
13:00–17:00 UTC
14:00–18:00 in Lisbon 09:00–13:00 in New York
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15:38–16:23 Lisbon 10:38–11:23 New York
Your team keeps different hours?

National conventions are the default and the public figure. Change them here for your own answer — the chart, the window and the calendar file all follow.

Lisbon to
New York to

Not on that day. Saturday is a rest day in both Lisbon and New York. The hours above are what you would share on a day you are both at work.

4hoverlap
workable, Enough overlap for daily standups and real-time when you need it. Best window 13:00–17:00 UTC.
Lisbon → New York
4 h overlap
Lisbon → London
8 h overlap
Porto → San Francisco
1 h overlap
Bali → Sydney
7 h overlap
Chiang Mai → London
2.5 h overlap
Kuala Lumpur → Sydney
6 h overlap
Mexico City → New York
6 h overlap
Medellín → New York
8 h overlap
Cape Town → Berlin
9 h overlap
Tallinn → San Francisco
0 h overlap
Tbilisi → London
7 h overlap
Istanbul → Berlin
9 h overlap
Las Palmas → London
8 h overlap
Bangkok → Sydney
5.5 h overlap
Medellín → San Francisco
7 h overlap
Lisbon → San Francisco
1 h overlap
Chiang Mai → Singapore
8.5 h overlap
Cape Town → London
7 h overlap
Buenos Aires → New York
8 h overlap
Tallinn → London
6 h overlap
Athens → Berlin
8 h overlap

This is the wedge no other world-clock site touches: not "what time is it there" but "could I actually live here and still work with them." Each pairing turns the raw time difference into a rhythm score, how much of the base city's normal day lands inside the team's working hours, so you can compare Lisbon-for-New-York against Bali-for-Sydney on the one number that matters.

FAQ

What makes a good remote base?

Enough overlap with your team's working day that you can catch meetings without wrecking your evenings, plus cost of living and quality of life. Each page scores the overlap and rhythm for that exact pairing.

Can I factor in cost of living?

Yes, the base finder and the city-vs-city comparisons weigh working-hours overlap together with a cost-of-living index.