City comparison · time difference and converter
Santiago is 10 hours behind Dhaka right now. Dhaka sits in Bangladesh on Dhaka; Santiago sits in Chile on Santiago. They are roughly 17,885 km apart (11,113 mi), a flight of about 22h 03m. Dhaka's metro holds around 22.4 million people; Santiago's around 7.1 million.
Slot 1
00:00 / 14:00
Dhaka / Santiago
Partial overlapSlot 2
01:00 / 15:00
Dhaka / Santiago
Partial overlapSlot 3
02:00 / 16:00
Dhaka / Santiago
Partial overlapEach row is one hour in Dhaka. Green rows are inside business hours in both cities; amber means only one side is at their desk; grey rows fall outside business hours in both.
Battle of Arica
Santiago, Chile · Asalto y Toma del Morro de Arica
Sun, Jun 7
National Day of Indigenous Peoples
Santiago, Chile · Día Nacional de los Pueblos Indígenas
Sun, Jun 21
Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Santiago, Chile · San Pedro y San Pablo
Mon, Jun 29
Great-circle distance
17,885 km
(11,113 mi)
Approximate flight
22h 03m
850 km/h cruise + 1h taxi/climb/descent
Jet lag
10h
Roughly 1 day to adjust per timezone crossed
The heatmap gives you the shape of the day. If you need to convert one specific hour — say a customer call or a release window — open the converter with both cities already loaded.
Open in converter →The difference between Dhaka and Santiago is not really a number, it's a daily rhythm. Santiago is 10 hours behind Dhaka on the clock today, but the lived version is that Dhaka is ahead in the calendar, so by the time Santiago comes online, half of Dhaka's day is already gone. That gap, more than the raw offset, is what teams have to design around.
In Dhaka, the working day picks up earliest in the financial districts — Dhaka's downtown core wakes early and breaks for lunch at the usual hour. The mood in Santiago is its own story: Santiago settles into the evening at the usual hour, with the local commuter pattern setting the pace. If you are scheduling between the two, the heatmap above marks the rows where both patterns line up.
Daylight saving is the other thing to keep an eye on. Bangladesh either observes DST or holds a fixed offset year-round; Chile either follows its region's DST pattern or stays put all year. When the two changes are weeks apart, the offset between Dhaka and Santiago is one hour off the usual for that stretch — a cliff that catches recurring calendar invites unless your calendar app rebases them automatically. Pin the meeting to a city, not an offset, and the tool handles the rest.
For travellers, the 22h 03m flight is the short version of the story. The longer one is jet lag: roughly one day of adjustment per timezone crossed, which means a trip across the 10-hour gap costs about 10 groggy days on each side. Pilots and cabin crew swear by morning sunlight and an early walk; whatever your routine, the wall-clock numbers above are the source of truth for your first morning in the new city.