Kuwait · AST
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Kuwait City, Kuwait 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 Kuwait City 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 Kuwait City lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. There is a 2-hour difference between Kuwait City 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 Kuwait City lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. There is a 6-hour difference between Kuwait City 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 Kuwait City 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 Kuwait City.
Practical Info
Kuwait City (Kuwait) is home to roughly 3.1M people. Today brings about 13.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:00, sunset at 18:54. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 29° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Capital
Kuwait City 👑
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
AST · Asia/Kuwait
Coordinates
29.38°N, 47.98°E
Currency
KWD (د.ك)
Calling Code
+965
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Arabic
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Kuwait Towers hold roughly 9,000 cubic metres of water between them, part of a network of dozens of storage towers built in the 1970s for a city with essentially no fresh water of its own. Kuwait desalinates nearly everything it drinks.
The clock: Kuwait keeps UTC+3 year-round with no daylight saving — as does every country on the Arabian Peninsula.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
9h overlapSame timezone as your location.