| 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 |
Basra, Iraq runs on UTC+3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Basra 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 Basra lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Basra 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 Basra lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Basra 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 Basra 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 Basra.
Basra (Iraq) is home to roughly 1.4M people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:41, sunset at 17:35. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 31° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Iraq
Capital
Baghdad
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Asia/Baghdad
Coordinates
30.51°N, 47.81°E
Currency
IQD (ع.د)
Calling Code
+964
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Arabic, Kurdish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Basra was once laced with canals and called the Venice of the East. Upstream damming and drainage have cut the Shatt al-Arab's flow enough that salt water now pushes far inland, and the 2018 water crisis put more than 100,000 people in hospital.
The clock: Basra keeps UTC+3 and is among the hottest cities on Earth, with recorded temperatures above 53°C — near the limit of what has been reliably measured anywhere.
Basra lies at 47.8°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The 2.8° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 11 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:49 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 14h 7m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 10h 10m. The swing between them is 3h 57m. At this latitude the seasons are visible in the clock, but never dramatic.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Basra the sun comes up earliest on 12 June at 04:46, while the latest sunset waits until 2 July at 18:55. 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 Basra that civil twilight runs about 24 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 Basra, Iraq is Asia/Baghdad with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Basra has an estimated population of 1.4M and is located at coordinates 30.51°N, 47.81°E.
Basra gets 14h 7m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 10m on its shortest, averaging 12h 10m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Basra falls at about 11:49 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 2.8° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Venice That Dried Up: Basra was once laced with canals and called the Venice of the East. Upstream damming and drainage have cut the Shatt al-Arab's flow enough that salt water now pushes far inland, and the 2018 water crisis put more than…