| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −2h | Becomes −3h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −1h | Becomes −2h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +1h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +6h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +7h | Becomes +8h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −7h | Becomes −8h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −10h | Becomes −11h on 1 Nov |
Abha, Saudi Arabia runs on UTC+3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Abha and New York is 7 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 16:00–18:00 in Abha lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Abha and London is 2 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 7 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 11:00–18:00 in Abha lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Abha and Tokyo is 6 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–12:00 in Abha lines up with 15:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Moscow, Istanbul, Nairobi. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Abha.
Abha (Saudi Arabia) is home to roughly 500K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:00, sunset at 17:59. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 18° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Saudi Arabia
Capital
Riyadh
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Asia/Riyadh
Coordinates
18.22°N, 42.50°E
Currency
SAR (﷼)
Calling Code
+966
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Arabic
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Abha sits at about 2,200 metres in the Asir mountains and receives enough monsoon moisture to be genuinely green, with terraced farming and summer fog. Temperatures rarely pass 30°C, in a country better known for the opposite.
The clock: Abha keeps UTC+3. Its Rijal Almaa village, built in stone and quartz, was listed among the world's best tourism villages in 2021.
Abha lies at 42.5°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The 2.5° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 10 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:10 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+3 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 13h 13m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 2m. The swing between them is 2h 11m. Inside the tropics the day length stays within a narrow band all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Abha the sun comes up earliest on 6 June at 05:33, while the latest sunset waits until 8 July at 18:50. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Abha that civil twilight runs about 22 minutes at the equinox.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Abha, Saudi Arabia is Asia/Riyadh with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Abha has an estimated population of 500K and is located at coordinates 18.22°N, 42.50°E.
Abha gets 13h 13m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 2m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Abha falls at about 12:10 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 2.5° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Green Corner of Arabia: Abha sits at about 2,200 metres in the Asir mountains and receives enough monsoon moisture to be genuinely green, with terraced farming and summer fog.