The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London. The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. The Times and The Sunday Times do not share editorial staff, were founded independently, and have only had common ownership since 1967.

The Times had an average daily circulation of 417,298 in January 2019;^[3] in the same period, The Sunday Times had an average weekly circulation of 712,291.^[3] An American edition of The Times has been published since 6 June 2006.^[11] The Times has been heavily used by scholars and researchers because of its widespread availability in libraries and its detailed index.