Is WorldTimeAPI (worldtimeapi.org) down right now?

Effectively yes for script/tutorial use — WorldTimeAPI (worldtimeapi.org) answered our last plain GET with HTTP 525 (checked 2026-09-11T19:00:23Z). We check worldtimeapi.org with a plain keyless GET every hour; 24h OK-rate: 0%.

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Is WorldTimeAPI (worldtimeapi.org) down?

FAILING right now — answering HTTP 525 to plain requests.

Last checked 2026-09-11T19:00:23Z · checked every hour · OK-rate 24h: 0% · 7d: 0% · raw JSON · Atom feed of its down/recovered events

Failing streak began 2026-08-29T04:00:52Z or earlier (14 days — dead, not a blip) · last successful check: none in the last 7 days

Context: Sunset in 2026 citing hosting costs — the origin is gone (direct curl gets a connection reset; through its CDN you get HTTP 525, no farewell page). Every /api/timezone and /api/ip URL in a decade of tutorials is dead.

What we check: GET https://worldtimeapi.org/api/timezone/Etc/UTC — a plain, keyless request from Cloudflare's network with an honest bot UA, exactly what a tutorial curl or an <img> tag experiences. OK = HTTP 2xx/3xx within 8s. No retries, no cookies, no API keys.

Need a timezone API you own?

If worldtimeapi.org is failing (or you're tired of finding out mid-demo), Mockbird gives you your own copy of the IANA timezone table — 418 zones with UTC/DST offsets, abbreviations and countries — served as a queryable REST API in one pipe (for live wall-clock time you don't need an API at all: Intl.DateTimeFormat / zoneinfo are built into your runtime) — free, no signup:

curl -s https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/data/timezones.db.json \
| curl -s -X POST 'https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/api/projects/import?name=timezones' \
    --data-binary @-
# then e.g. ?zone=Europe/London or ?countryCode=US on /m/YOUR_ID/timezones

Read the honest WorldTimeAPI (worldtimeapi.org) migration guide → (it also says when WorldTimeAPI (worldtimeapi.org) is the better tool) or create your own mock API in one click.

README badge

Does your project's test suite or tutorial depend on worldtimeapi.org? Embed a live status badge — it re-renders from our latest check (cached 5 min):

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<a href="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/worldtimeapi"><img src="https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/status/worldtimeapi/badge.svg" alt="worldtimeapi.org status"></a>

Green = answering plain GETs, red = network-dead, amber = answering but with an error status. Every tracked service has one; there's also a summary badge for all 71.

Get pinged when it goes down

Subscribe any webhook URL — no account needed. One message when worldtimeapi.org goes down, one when it recovers (debounced: two consecutive hourly checks must agree, so a single blip never fires). Slack and Discord incoming-webhook URLs get a formatted message; anything else gets an HMAC-signed JSON POST.

Or from a terminal / CI script:

curl -X POST https://mockbird.mockbird.workers.dev/api/status/watch \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"service": "worldtimeapi", "url": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/T000/B000/XXXX"}'

Use "service": "*" to watch all 71 tracked services at once. The response includes an unsubscribe curl; 5 consecutive failed deliveries auto-unsubscribe. No webhook? Omit "url" to get a pollable subscription instead — GET the returned poll URL anytime for the transitions since your last poll. Full API details →

The same checker can watch your own URL: POST /api/status/monitor {"url": "https://api.example.com/health", "notify": "<webhook>"} — every 30 minutes, alert on down + recovery, free, no account. Monitor API →

Recent checks

Checked at (UTC)	Result	Time
2026-09-11T19:00:23Z	HTTP 525	210 ms
2026-09-11T19:00:16Z	HTTP 525	179 ms
2026-09-11T18:00:28Z	HTTP 525	161 ms
2026-09-11T17:00:35Z	HTTP 525	156 ms
2026-09-11T16:00:26Z	HTTP 525	122 ms
2026-09-11T15:13:37Z	HTTP 525	565 ms
2026-09-11T14:01:00Z	HTTP 525	155 ms
2026-09-11T12:00:47Z	HTTP 525	289 ms
2026-09-11T11:00:46Z	HTTP 525	278 ms
2026-09-11T10:00:47Z	HTTP 525	307 ms
2026-09-11T09:00:47Z	HTTP 525	349 ms
2026-09-11T08:00:47Z	HTTP 525	395 ms
2026-09-11T07:00:47Z	HTTP 525	166 ms
2026-09-11T06:01:09Z	HTTP 525	143 ms
2026-09-11T05:01:08Z	HTTP 525	156 ms
2026-09-11T04:01:11Z	HTTP 525	154 ms
2026-09-11T03:01:10Z	HTTP 410	84 ms
2026-09-11T02:01:05Z	HTTP 525	93 ms
2026-09-11T01:01:07Z	HTTP 525	138 ms
2026-09-11T00:01:09Z	HTTP 525	159 ms
2026-09-10T23:01:08Z	HTTP 525	113 ms
2026-09-10T22:01:07Z	HTTP 525	150 ms
2026-09-10T21:00:28Z	HTTP 525	328 ms
2026-09-10T20:00:29Z	HTTP 525	171 ms
2026-09-10T19:00:35Z	HTTP 525	160 ms
2026-09-10T18:00:42Z	HTTP 525	186 ms

Bias disclosure: this page is run by Mockbird, a free hosted mock-API service. The status data is real and logged verbatim (pull it yourself), and the linked guides say when the incumbent wins.