| 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 |
Gaza, 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 Gaza 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 Gaza lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Gaza 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 Gaza lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Gaza 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 Gaza 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 Gaza.
Gaza (Palestine) is home to roughly 590K people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:35, sunset at 18:29. 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
31.50°N, 34.47°E
Currency
ILS (₪)
Calling Code
+970
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Arabic
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Gaza Strip is about 41 kilometres long and 6 to 12 wide, and before 2023 held over two million people — among the highest population densities anywhere on Earth. Gaza City itself has been settled for around 4,000 years.
The clock: Gaza keeps UTC+2 and follows Palestinian daylight saving dates.
Gaza lies at 34.5°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 4.5° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 18 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:42 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 42 minutes and pushing solar noon to 12:42.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 12m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 10h 6m. The swing between them is 4h 7m. 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 Gaza the sun comes up earliest on 12 June at 05:36, while the latest sunset waits until 2 July at 19:51. 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 Gaza 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 Gaza, Palestine is Asia/Hebron with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Gaza has an estimated population of 590K and is located at coordinates 31.50°N, 34.47°E.
Gaza gets 14h 12m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 6m on its shortest, averaging 12h 10m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Gaza falls at about 11:42 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 4.5° from the meridian its zone is built on.
One of the Most Densely Populated Places: The Gaza Strip is about 41 kilometres long and 6 to 12 wide, and before 2023 held over two million people — among the highest population densities anywhere on Earth.