Saudi Arabia · AST
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Dammam, Saudi Arabia 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 Dammam 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 Dammam lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. There is a 2-hour difference between Dammam 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 Dammam lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. There is a 6-hour difference between Dammam 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 Dammam 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 Dammam.
Practical Info
Dammam (Saudi Arabia) is home to roughly 1.3M people. Today brings about 13.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 04:54, sunset at 18:36. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 26° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
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Saudi Arabia
Capital
Riyadh
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
AST · Asia/Riyadh
Coordinates
26.43°N, 50.10°E
Currency
SAR (﷼)
Calling Code
+966
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Arabic
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Dammam Well No. 7 struck oil in commercial quantities in March 1938 after six earlier wells had failed. It produced for nearly fifty years and is the reason the modern Saudi state exists in the form it does.
The clock: Dammam keeps UTC+3 on the Gulf coast, and the causeway to Bahrain puts a different country within an hour's drive on the same working morning.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
9h overlapSame timezone as your location.