Basetime

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.

Lisbon → New York
3 h overlap
Lisbon → London
8 h overlap
Porto → San Francisco
0 h overlap
Bali → Sydney
6 h overlap
Chiang Mai → London
2 h overlap
Kuala Lumpur → Sydney
6 h overlap
Mexico City → New York
6 h overlap
Medellín → New York
7 h overlap
Cape Town → Berlin
8 h overlap
Tallinn → San Francisco
0 h overlap
Tbilisi → London
5 h overlap
Istanbul → Berlin
7 h overlap
Las Palmas → London
8 h overlap
Bangkok → Sydney
5 h overlap
Medellín → San Francisco
6 h overlap
Lisbon → San Francisco
0 h overlap
Chiang Mai → Singapore
7 h overlap
Cape Town → London
7 h overlap
Buenos Aires → New York
7 h overlap
Tallinn → London
6 h overlap
Athens → Berlin
7 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.