Get Timezone from City in Python/Django

Question

Using pytz, I am able to get a list of timezones like so:

>>> from pytz import country_timezones
>>> print(\' \'.join(country_         


        

Answer 1

I think you're going to need to manually search the timezone database for the city you're looking for:

from pytz import country_timezones, timezone

def find_city(query):
    for country, cities in country_timezones.items():
        for city in cities:
            if query in city:
                yield timezone(city)

for tz in find_city('Zurich'):
    print(tz)

(that's just a quick-and-dirty solution, it for instance doesn't try to match only the city-part of a timezone – try searching for Europe, it does substring matches, doesn't search case-insensitive, etc.)