| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −2h | Becomes −1h on 24 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −1h | Becomes ±0h on 24 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +1h | Becomes +2h on 24 Oct |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +6h | Becomes +7h on 24 Oct |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +7h | Becomes +8h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −7h | Becomes −6h on 23 Oct |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −10h | Becomes −9h on 23 Oct |
Bethlehem, Palestine runs on UTC+3. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 24 Oct. The time difference between Bethlehem 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 Bethlehem lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Bethlehem 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 Bethlehem lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Bethlehem 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 Bethlehem lines up with 15:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Athens, Cairo, Beirut. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Bethlehem.
Bethlehem (Palestine) is home to roughly 30K people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:32, sunset at 18:26. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 24 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 32° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Capital
Ramallah
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Asia/Hebron
Coordinates
31.70°N, 35.20°E
Currency
ILS (₪)
Calling Code
+970
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Arabic
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Church of the Nativity's main entrance, the Door of Humility, is about 1.2 metres high — reduced over the centuries so that raiders could not ride horses inside. The church, built from 327, is among the oldest still in daily use.
The clock: Bethlehem keeps UTC+2. Three denominations share the building under a status quo agreement, and disputes over cleaning responsibilities have occasionally come to blows.
Bethlehem lies at 35.2°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 5.2° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 21 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:39 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 39 minutes and pushing solar noon to 12:39.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 13m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 10h 5m. The swing between them is 4h 9m. 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 Bethlehem the sun comes up earliest on 12 June at 05:33, while the latest sunset waits until 1 July at 19:48. 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 Bethlehem 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 Bethlehem, Palestine is Asia/Hebron with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Bethlehem has an estimated population of 30K and is located at coordinates 31.70°N, 35.20°E.
Bethlehem gets 14h 13m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 5m on its shortest, averaging 12h 10m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Bethlehem falls at about 11:39 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 5.2° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Door You Have to Stoop Through: The Church of the Nativity's main entrance, the Door of Humility, is about 1.2 metres high — reduced over the centuries so that raiders could not ride horses inside.