| 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 |
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia runs on UTC+3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Jeddah 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 Jeddah lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Jeddah 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 Jeddah lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Jeddah 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 Jeddah 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 Jeddah.
Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) is home to roughly 4.7M people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:14, sunset at 18:12. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 22° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
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Saudi Arabia
Capital
Riyadh
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Asia/Riyadh
Coordinates
21.54°N, 39.17°E
Currency
SAR (﷼)
Calling Code
+966
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Arabic
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
King Fahd's Fountain shoots seawater roughly 260 metres into the air off the Jeddah corniche — taller than most skyscrapers, and visible across much of the city. It runs on pumps moving the water at around 375 km/h.
The clock: Jeddah keeps UTC+3 and has been the sea gateway to Mecca for fourteen centuries. Its old town, Al-Balad, is built from coral stone quarried out of the Red Sea.
Jeddah lies at 39.2°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The 5.8° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 23 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:23 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 13h 27m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 10h 49m. The swing between them is 2h 38m. Inside the tropics the day length stays within a narrow band all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Jeddah the sun comes up earliest on 8 June at 05:40, while the latest sunset waits until 6 July at 19:10. 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 Jeddah that civil twilight runs about 22 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 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is Asia/Riyadh with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Jeddah has an estimated population of 4.7M and is located at coordinates 21.54°N, 39.17°E.
Jeddah gets 13h 27m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 49m on its shortest, averaging 12h 9m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Jeddah falls at about 12:23 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 5.8° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Tallest Fountain in the World: King Fahd's Fountain shoots seawater roughly 260 metres into the air off the Jeddah corniche — taller than most skyscrapers, and visible across much of the city. It runs on pumps moving the water at around 375 km/h.