| 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 |
Kuwait City, Kuwait runs on UTC+3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Kuwait City 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 Kuwait City lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Kuwait City 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 Kuwait City lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Kuwait City 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 Kuwait City 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 Kuwait City.
Kuwait City (Kuwait) is home to roughly 3.1M people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:40, sunset at 17:35. 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
UTC+3 · 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; no country on the Arabian Peninsula uses daylight saving time.
Kuwait City lies at 48.0°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The 3.0° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 12 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:48 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 14h 2m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 10h 16m. The swing between them is 3h 46m. 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 Kuwait City the sun comes up earliest on 11 June at 04:48, while the latest sunset waits until 2 July at 18:52. 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 Kuwait City 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 Kuwait City, Kuwait is Asia/Kuwait with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Kuwait City has an estimated population of 3.1M and is located at coordinates 29.38°N, 47.98°E. It is the capital city of Kuwait.
Kuwait City gets 14h 2m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 16m on its shortest, averaging 12h 10m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Kuwait City falls at about 11:48 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 3.0° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Water Towers as Landmarks: 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.