| 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 |
Damascus, Syria runs on UTC+3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Damascus 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 Damascus lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Damascus 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 Damascus lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Damascus 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 Damascus 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 Damascus.
Damascus (Syria) is home to roughly 2.5M people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:28, sunset at 18:21. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 34° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Syria
Capital
Damascus 👑
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Asia/Damascus
Coordinates
33.51°N, 36.29°E
Currency
SYP (£S)
Calling Code
+963
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Arabic, Kurdish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Damascus has been continuously inhabited for roughly eleven thousand years and is usually described as the oldest continuously inhabited capital city on Earth. Its Umayyad Mosque, built in 715, stands on a site used for worship for around three millennia.
The clock: Damascus keeps UTC+3 year-round; Syria abolished its seasonal clock change in 2022.
Damascus lies at 36.3°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The 8.7° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 35 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:35 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 23m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 56m. The swing between them is 4h 27m. 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 Damascus the sun comes up earliest on 13 June at 05:24, while the latest sunset waits until 1 July at 19:49. 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 Damascus that civil twilight runs about 25 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 Damascus, Syria is Asia/Damascus with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Damascus has an estimated population of 2.5M and is located at coordinates 33.51°N, 36.29°E. It is the capital city of Syria.
Damascus gets 14h 23m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 56m on its shortest, averaging 12h 11m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Damascus falls at about 12:35 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 8.7° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Possibly the Oldest Capital in the World: Damascus has been continuously inhabited for roughly eleven thousand years and is usually described as the oldest continuously inhabited capital city on Earth.