diff --git a/src/lib/tz/__tests__/zone-offset.test.ts b/src/lib/tz/__tests__/zone-offset.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6c411738f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/tz/__tests__/zone-offset.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+/**
+ * The hourly offset memo must give the same wall clock as asking Intl
+ * directly, for every instant, including the hours around a transition and
+ * zones whose transitions do not fall on a UTC hour.
+ */
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+import { formatInUserTz, tzOffsetMinutes, userDayKey } from "../format";
+import { wallClockInTz } from "../wall-clock";
+import { __resetZoneOffsetCacheForTests, zoneOffsetMs } from "../zone-offset";
+
+const ZONES = [
+  "UTC",
+  "Europe/Berlin",
+  "America/New_York",
+  "America/St_Johns",
+  "Australia/Lord_Howe",
+  "Pacific/Chatham",
+  "Asia/Kathmandu",
+  "Asia/Kolkata",
+  "Africa/Casablanca",
+  "America/Sao_Paulo",
+];
+
+const REFERENCE_OPTIONS: Intl.DateTimeFormatOptions = {
+  year: "numeric",
+  month: "2-digit",
+  day: "2-digit",
+  hour: "2-digit",
+  minute: "2-digit",
+  second: "2-digit",
+  hour12: false,
+  weekday: "short",
+};
+const WEEKDAYS = ["Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat"];
+
+function reference(date: Date, tz: string) {
+  const parts = new Intl.DateTimeFormat("en-US", {
+    ...REFERENCE_OPTIONS,
+    timeZone: tz,
+  }).formatToParts(date);
+  const get = (type: string) => parts.find((p) => p.type === type)!.value;
+  const hour = Number(get("hour")) % 24;
+  const wall = {
+    year: Number(get("year")),
+    month: Number(get("month")),
+    day: Number(get("day")),
+    hour,
+    minute: Number(get("minute")),
+    second: Number(get("second")),
+    weekday: WEEKDAYS.indexOf(get("weekday")),
+  };
+  const asIfUtc = Date.UTC(
+    wall.year,
+    wall.month - 1,
+    wall.day,
+    wall.hour,
+    wall.minute,
+    wall.second,
+  );
+  const pad = (n: number) => String(n).padStart(2, "0");
+  return {
+    wall,
+    offsetMinutes: Math.round((asIfUtc - date.getTime()) / 60000),
+    dayKey: `${wall.year}-${pad(wall.month)}-${pad(wall.day)}`,
+    datetime: `${wall.year}-${pad(wall.month)}-${pad(wall.day)} ${pad(wall.hour)}:${pad(wall.minute)}`,
+  };
+}
+
+/** Instants every 7 min 13.5 s across two days around each 2026 transition. */
+function instantsAroundTransitions(): Date[] {
+  const anchors = [
+    Date.UTC(2026, 2, 28), // EU spring forward (29 Mar)
+    Date.UTC(2026, 9, 24), // EU fall back (25 Oct)
+    Date.UTC(2026, 2, 7), // US spring forward (8 Mar)
+    Date.UTC(2026, 9, 31), // US fall back (1 Nov)
+    Date.UTC(2026, 3, 4), // Lord Howe / Chatham autumn (4-5 Apr)
+    Date.UTC(2026, 8, 26), // Chatham spring (27 Sep)
+    Date.UTC(2026, 9, 3), // Lord Howe spring (3 Oct 15:30 UTC) / Chatham (27 Sep)
+  ];
+  const out: Date[] = [];
+  for (const anchor of anchors) {
+    for (let t = anchor; t < anchor + 2 * 86_400_000; t += 433_500) {
+      out.push(new Date(t));
+    }
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  __resetZoneOffsetCacheForTests();
+});
+
+describe("zone offset memo", () => {
+  it("matches Intl for every instant around the transitions", () => {
+    const instants = instantsAroundTransitions();
+    for (const tz of ZONES) {
+      for (const date of instants) {
+        const ref = reference(date, tz);
+        expect(wallClockInTz(date, tz)).toEqual(ref.wall);
+        expect(tzOffsetMinutes(date, tz)).toBe(ref.offsetMinutes);
+        expect(userDayKey(date, tz)).toBe(ref.dayKey);
+        expect(formatInUserTz(date, tz, "datetime")).toBe(ref.datetime);
+      }
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("matches Intl on a warm memo for scattered instants across decades", () => {
+    let seed = 7;
+    const next = () => {
+      seed = (seed * 1_103_515_245 + 12_345) % 2_147_483_648;
+      return seed / 2_147_483_648;
+    };
+    const from = Date.UTC(1972, 0, 1);
+    const span = Date.UTC(2060, 0, 1) - from;
+    for (let i = 0; i < 4000; i++) {
+      const date = new Date(from + Math.floor(next() * span));
+      const tz = ZONES[i % ZONES.length];
+      // Twice: the first read fills the hour, the second reads the memo.
+      for (let pass = 0; pass < 2; pass++) {
+        const ref = reference(date, tz);
+        expect(wallClockInTz(date, tz)).toEqual(ref.wall);
+        expect(tzOffsetMinutes(date, tz)).toBe(ref.offsetMinutes);
+        expect(userDayKey(date, tz)).toBe(ref.dayKey);
+      }
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("refuses an hour that contains a transition", () => {
+    // Europe/Berlin springs forward at 01:00 UTC on 29 March 2026.
+    expect(
+      zoneOffsetMs(new Date(Date.UTC(2026, 2, 29, 1, 30)), "Europe/Berlin"),
+    ).toBe(2 * 3_600_000);
+    // Lord Howe springs forward half an hour at 15:30 UTC on 3 October:
+    // the 15:00 UTC hour straddles it and stays on the formatter path,
+    // on both sides of the change.
+    expect(
+      zoneOffsetMs(
+        new Date(Date.UTC(2026, 9, 3, 15, 10)),
+        "Australia/Lord_Howe",
+      ),
+    ).toBeNull();
+    for (const minute of [10, 29, 30, 45]) {
+      const at = new Date(Date.UTC(2026, 9, 3, 15, minute));
+      expect(wallClockInTz(at, "Australia/Lord_Howe")).toEqual(
+        reference(at, "Australia/Lord_Howe").wall,
+      );
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("leaves out-of-range and invalid inputs to the formatter path", () => {
+    expect(
+      zoneOffsetMs(new Date(Date.UTC(1950, 0, 1)), "Europe/Berlin"),
+    ).toBeNull();
+    expect(zoneOffsetMs(new Date(Number.NaN), "Europe/Berlin")).toBeNull();
+    expect(() => wallClockInTz(new Date(), "Not/A_Zone")).toThrow(RangeError);
+    // The formatter reads a missing date as "now"; the memo must not turn
+    // that into a TypeError.
+    const now = reference(new Date(), "Europe/Berlin").wall;
+    const loose = wallClockInTz(undefined as unknown as Date, "Europe/Berlin");
+    expect(loose.year).toBe(now.year);
+    expect(loose.day).toBe(now.day);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/tz/format.ts b/src/lib/tz/format.ts
index 5e6bde119..01809a9c2 100644
--- a/src/lib/tz/format.ts
+++ b/src/lib/tz/format.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
  */
 
 import { getDateTimeFormat } from "./intl-cache";
+import { wallClockFromOffset, zoneOffsetMs } from "./zone-offset";
 
 export const DEFAULT_TIMEZONE = "Europe/Berlin";
 
@@ -52,6 +53,9 @@ const WALL_CLOCK_PARTS_OPTIONS: Omit<Intl.DateTimeFormatOptions, "timeZone"> =
  */
 const OFFSET_ZONE = /^[+-]\d/;
 
+const validityByZone = new Map<string, boolean>();
+const MAX_VALIDITY_ENTRIES = 256;
+
 /**
  * Validate a timezone string: a named IANA zone (or `UTC`) the runtime
  * accepts. Returns `false` for anything else. Cheap (microseconds) — call
@@ -67,6 +71,12 @@ export function isValidTimezone(tz: string): boolean {
   if (!tz || typeof tz !== "string" || tz.length === 0 || tz.length > 64) {
     return false;
   }
+  // The answer for a given name never changes within a process, and the
+  // day-key helpers below ask it once per row; `resolvedOptions()` allocates
+  // a fresh options object on every call.
+  const memo = validityByZone.get(tz);
+  if (memo !== undefined) return memo;
+  let valid: boolean;
   try {
     // The memo only caches successful constructions, so probing an
     // invalid zone through it cannot poison the formatter map — and a
@@ -76,10 +86,13 @@ export function isValidTimezone(tz: string): boolean {
       tz,
       VALIDATION_OPTIONS,
     ).resolvedOptions().timeZone;
-    return !OFFSET_ZONE.test(resolved);
+    valid = !OFFSET_ZONE.test(resolved);
   } catch {
-    return false;
+    valid = false;
   }
+  if (validityByZone.size >= MAX_VALIDITY_ENTRIES) validityByZone.clear();
+  validityByZone.set(tz, valid);
+  return valid;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -275,7 +288,23 @@ interface WallClockParts {
   second: string;
 }
 
+function pad2(value: number): string {
+  return value < 10 ? `0${value}` : String(value);
+}
+
 function wallClockParts(date: Date, tz: string): WallClockParts {
+  const offsetMs = zoneOffsetMs(date, tz);
+  if (offsetMs !== null) {
+    const at = wallClockFromOffset(date, offsetMs);
+    return {
+      year: String(at.year),
+      month: pad2(at.month),
+      day: pad2(at.day),
+      hour: pad2(at.hour),
+      minute: pad2(at.minute),
+      second: pad2(at.second),
+    };
+  }
   const fmt = getDateTimeFormat("en-CA", tz, WALL_CLOCK_PARTS_OPTIONS);
   const parts = fmt.formatToParts(date);
   const get = (type: Intl.DateTimeFormatPartTypes): string =>
@@ -319,6 +348,12 @@ function formatIsoWithOffset(date: Date, tz: string): string {
  * difference between the wall-clock parts and the UTC parts.
  */
 export function tzOffsetMinutes(date: Date, tz: string): number {
+  const offsetMs = zoneOffsetMs(date, tz);
+  if (offsetMs !== null) {
+    // Same arithmetic as below: the wall clock is read to the whole second,
+    // so the sub-second part of the instant shifts the rounded result.
+    return Math.round((offsetMs - (date.getTime() % 1000)) / 60000);
+  }
   const fmt = getDateTimeFormat("en-CA", tz, WALL_CLOCK_PARTS_OPTIONS);
   const parts = fmt.formatToParts(date);
   const get = (type: Intl.DateTimeFormatPartTypes): number =>
diff --git a/src/lib/tz/wall-clock.ts b/src/lib/tz/wall-clock.ts
index 917e8f595..7ec7f1617 100644
--- a/src/lib/tz/wall-clock.ts
+++ b/src/lib/tz/wall-clock.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
  * silent drift a real failure mode.
  */
 import { getDateTimeFormat } from "./intl-cache";
+import { wallClockFromOffset, zoneOffsetMs } from "./zone-offset";
 
 export interface WallClockParts {
   year: number;
@@ -190,6 +191,8 @@ export function wallClockInTz(
       weekday: date.getDay(),
     };
   }
+  const offsetMs = zoneOffsetMs(date, tz);
+  if (offsetMs !== null) return wallClockFromOffset(date, offsetMs);
   const parts = getDateTimeFormat(
     "en-US",
     tz,
diff --git a/src/lib/tz/zone-offset.ts b/src/lib/tz/zone-offset.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..12db19e02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/tz/zone-offset.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+/**
+ * Per-hour memo of a zone's UTC offset, so wall-clock conversions in hot loops
+ * stop paying for `Intl.DateTimeFormat#formatToParts` on every row.
+ *
+ * A day-key or wall-clock read is pure arithmetic once the offset in force at
+ * the instant is known. The offset is probed through the same cached
+ * formatter the slow path uses, at both ends of the UTC hour that contains the
+ * instant; only when both ends agree (and the offset is a whole number of
+ * seconds) is it memoised for that hour. An hour that straddles a transition
+ * is stored as "not constant" and every instant inside it keeps going through
+ * the formatter, so a transition at any minute — Lord Howe's half-hour shift
+ * at 15:30 UTC, a historical LMT offset with seconds — still resolves exactly.
+ *
+ * The fast path is limited to 1971..2199 so the arithmetic never meets the
+ * Julian / proleptic-Gregorian split or a non-four-digit year, and so `t % 1000`
+ * is never negative. Outside that range, for an invalid date, or for a zone
+ * the formatter rejects, callers fall through to the formatter unchanged
+ * (an invalid zone throws from the probe exactly as it throws from the
+ * formatter path, and a value that is not a Date is left to the formatter).
+ */
+import { getDateTimeFormat } from "./intl-cache";
+
+const PROBE_OPTIONS: Omit<Intl.DateTimeFormatOptions, "timeZone"> =
+  Object.freeze({
+    year: "numeric",
+    month: "2-digit",
+    day: "2-digit",
+    hour: "2-digit",
+    minute: "2-digit",
+    second: "2-digit",
+    hour12: false,
+  });
+
+const BUCKET_MS = 3_600_000;
+const FAST_FROM_MS = Date.UTC(1971, 0, 1);
+const FAST_UNTIL_MS = Date.UTC(2200, 0, 1);
+/** Hours memoised across all zones before the memo starts over (~2 MB). */
+const MAX_BUCKETS = 20_000;
+/** Stored for an hour whose offset changes inside it. */
+const NOT_CONSTANT = Number.NaN;
+
+const offsetsByZone = new Map<string, Map<number, number>>();
+let bucketCount = 0;
+
+/** Exact offset (ms) at an instant that falls on a whole second. */
+function probeOffsetMs(instantMs: number, tz: string): number {
+  const parts = getDateTimeFormat("en-CA", tz, PROBE_OPTIONS).formatToParts(
+    new Date(instantMs),
+  );
+  let year = 0;
+  let month = 0;
+  let day = 0;
+  let hour = 0;
+  let minute = 0;
+  let second = 0;
+  for (const part of parts) {
+    switch (part.type) {
+      case "year":
+        year = Number(part.value);
+        break;
+      case "month":
+        month = Number(part.value);
+        break;
+      case "day":
+        day = Number(part.value);
+        break;
+      case "hour":
+        hour = Number(part.value);
+        break;
+      case "minute":
+        minute = Number(part.value);
+        break;
+      case "second":
+        second = Number(part.value);
+        break;
+    }
+  }
+  if (hour === 24) hour = 0;
+  return Date.UTC(year, month - 1, day, hour, minute, second) - instantMs;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The zone's offset from UTC in milliseconds at `date`, or `null` when the
+ * caller must use the formatter (out of range, invalid date, or an hour that
+ * contains a transition). Throws for a zone `Intl` rejects.
+ */
+export function zoneOffsetMs(date: Date, tz: string): number | null {
+  // A caller that slips a non-Date through (an absent field read off a loose
+  // row) keeps the formatter's own handling: `formatToParts(undefined)`
+  // formats the current instant rather than throwing.
+  if (!(date instanceof Date)) return null;
+  const t = date.getTime();
+  if (!(t >= FAST_FROM_MS && t < FAST_UNTIL_MS)) return null;
+  const bucket = Math.floor(t / BUCKET_MS);
+  let zone = offsetsByZone.get(tz);
+  const memo = zone?.get(bucket);
+  if (memo !== undefined) return Number.isNaN(memo) ? null : memo;
+
+  const start = bucket * BUCKET_MS;
+  const atStart = probeOffsetMs(start, tz);
+  const atEnd = probeOffsetMs(start + BUCKET_MS - 1000, tz);
+  const offset =
+    atStart === atEnd && atStart % 1000 === 0 ? atStart : NOT_CONSTANT;
+
+  if (bucketCount >= MAX_BUCKETS) {
+    offsetsByZone.clear();
+    bucketCount = 0;
+    zone = undefined;
+  }
+  if (!zone) {
+    zone = new Map();
+    offsetsByZone.set(tz, zone);
+  }
+  zone.set(bucket, offset);
+  bucketCount += 1;
+  return Number.isNaN(offset) ? null : offset;
+}
+
+/** Wall-clock fields at `date` in the zone whose offset is `offsetMs`. */
+export function wallClockFromOffset(
+  date: Date,
+  offsetMs: number,
+): {
+  year: number;
+  month: number;
+  day: number;
+  hour: number;
+  minute: number;
+  second: number;
+  weekday: number;
+} {
+  const local = new Date(date.getTime() + offsetMs);
+  return {
+    year: local.getUTCFullYear(),
+    month: local.getUTCMonth() + 1,
+    day: local.getUTCDate(),
+    hour: local.getUTCHours(),
+    minute: local.getUTCMinutes(),
+    second: local.getUTCSeconds(),
+    weekday: local.getUTCDay(),
+  };
+}
+
+export function __resetZoneOffsetCacheForTests(): void {
+  offsetsByZone.clear();
+  bucketCount = 0;
+}