| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −2h | Becomes −1h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −1h | Becomes ±0h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +1h | Becomes +2h on 25 Oct |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +6h | Becomes +7h on 25 Oct |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +7h | Becomes +8h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −7h | Becomes −6h on 24 Oct |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −10h | Becomes −9h on 24 Oct |
Eilat, Israel runs on UTC+3. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. The time difference between Eilat 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 Eilat lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Eilat 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 Eilat lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Eilat 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 Eilat 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 Eilat.
Eilat (Israel) is home to roughly 52K people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:32, sunset at 18:27. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 30° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Israel
Capital
Jerusalem
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Asia/Jerusalem
Coordinates
29.56°N, 34.95°E
Currency
ILS (₪)
Calling Code
+972
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Hebrew, Arabic
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Eilat's coral reef sits at about 29.5° north, further from the equator than reef-building coral normally survives, kept alive by the Gulf of Aqaba's warm, clear water. Its corals have shown unusual heat tolerance.
The clock: Eilat keeps Israeli time. It is on a major bird migration route, with hundreds of millions of birds passing through twice a year.
Eilat lies at 35.0°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 5.0° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 20 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:40 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 40 minutes and pushing solar noon to 12:40.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 3m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 10h 15m. The swing between them is 3h 48m. 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 Eilat the sun comes up earliest on 26 March at 05:38, while the latest sunset waits until 2 July at 19:44. 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 Eilat 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 Eilat, Israel is Asia/Jerusalem with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Eilat has an estimated population of 52K and is located at coordinates 29.56°N, 34.95°E.
Eilat gets 14h 3m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 15m on its shortest, averaging 12h 10m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Eilat falls at about 11:40 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 5.0° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Reef at the Top of the Red Sea: Eilat's coral reef sits at about 29.5° north, further from the equator than reef-building coral normally survives, kept alive by the Gulf of Aqaba's warm, clear water. Its corals have shown unusual heat tolerance.