Iraq · AST
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Baghdad, Iraq runs on UTC+3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. There is a 7-hour difference between Baghdad and New York. 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 Baghdad lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. There is a 2-hour difference between Baghdad and London. 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 Baghdad lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. There is a 6-hour difference between Baghdad and Tokyo. 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 Baghdad lines up with 15:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Moscow, Athens, Istanbul. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Baghdad.
Practical Info
Baghdad (Iraq) is home to roughly 7.7M people. Today brings about 14.3 hours of daylight: sunrise at 04:54, sunset at 19:12. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 33° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
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Iraq
Capital
Baghdad 👑
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
AST · Asia/Baghdad
Coordinates
33.31°N, 44.36°E
Currency
IQD (ع.د)
Calling Code
+964
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Arabic, Kurdish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Baghdad was founded in 762 as a perfectly circular city, and within a century its House of Wisdom was the largest centre of translation and scholarship in the world — the route by which much Greek mathematics and astronomy reached Europe at all.
The clock: Baghdad keeps UTC+3 and abolished daylight saving in 2008. Iraq's clock changes have tracked its politics closely enough that the history is hard to summarise briefly.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
9h overlapSame timezone as your location.