Class Times in Your Timezone
Every academy teaching from overseas says it covers all timezones. Almost none of them say which hours they cannot cover, so families find out in week three when a tutor who was teaching them at 3am stops showing up.
Our tutors are in Egypt and Pakistan. This converts their teaching day into yours and marks the windows that are wide, the ones that are tight, and the ones we will not pretend to offer.
Working out your timezone…
The teaching day, in our tutors’ time
Everything the converter does is this table, shifted into your timezone. Tutors in Egypt are two hours ahead of the UK; tutors in Pakistan are four to five. Between them they cover more of the clock than either could alone, which is why the country beside your slot changes depending on the hour.
- 8:00am – 8:00pm
- The ordinary working day. The widest choice of tutors and the easiest slots to move.
- 8:00pm – 11:00pm
- Evening, and a normal hour to be teaching. Good availability.
- 11:00pm – 12:30am
- A smaller pool of tutors who teach late. Available, but book early.
- 12:30am – 8:00am
- Not offered.
Written guides for the countries most of our students are in
The converter gives you the arithmetic. These go further — which window books out first, what happens around the school year, and what it costs in your own currency.
USA
Times below are Eastern.
UK
Our tutors in Egypt sit two hours ahead of UK time for most of the year, so effectively every slot you would want is a reasonable hour for them.
Canada
Times below are Eastern, which covers Toronto, the GTA, Ottawa and Montreal.
Australia
Times below are Sydney/Melbourne.
Europe
Times below are Central European.
About scheduling
- Why are some hours not offered at all?
- Because our tutors live in Egypt and Pakistan, and between roughly half past midnight and eight in the morning their time, they are asleep. For a family on the US east coast that rules out anything after about 7pm, and for Australia it rules out the late morning. We would rather say so on this page than put you with a tutor teaching at 3am, which is how lessons get cancelled in week three.
- What happens when the clocks change?
- Your slot is booked against your own local time, so when your country moves its clocks and ours does not, we adjust on our side and your lesson stays exactly where it was. There are usually a couple of weeks each spring and autumn when the gap is an hour different from normal, because countries change on different dates.
- Does this page know my timezone?
- It reads the timezone your device is already set to, in your browser, and nothing is sent anywhere or stored. If it guesses wrong, or you are planning for a relative somewhere else, change it with the dropdown.
- Is a window being wide a guarantee of a slot?
- No. It means a large pool of tutors are working at that hour, so you will have real choice and it is easy to reschedule. A specific tutor can still be full. The after-school window in Britain is the clearest example: widely available in principle, and the first one to book out in practice.
- Can I split lessons across different times each week?
- Yes, though we would gently argue against it. A fixed weekly slot is the single biggest predictor of whether a student is still studying in six months, because it becomes something the week is built around rather than something that has to be decided each time.