| 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 |
Latakia, Syria runs on UTC+3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Latakia 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 Latakia lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Latakia 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 Latakia lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Latakia 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 Latakia 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 Latakia.
Latakia (Syria) is home to roughly 420K people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:30, sunset at 18:22. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 36° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Syria
Capital
Damascus
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Asia/Damascus
Coordinates
35.52°N, 35.79°E
Currency
SYP (£S)
Calling Code
+963
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Arabic, Kurdish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Ugarit, just north of Latakia, produced the Ugaritic alphabet around 1400 BC — one of the earliest alphabetic writing systems known, with 30 cuneiform letters. Its clay tablets were found in 1929.
The clock: Latakia keeps UTC+3 and is Syria's main port on the Mediterranean.
Latakia lies at 35.8°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The 9.2° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 37 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:37 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 34m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 45m. The swing between them is 4h 49m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Latakia the sun comes up earliest on 14 June at 05:21, while the latest sunset waits until 30 June at 19:56. 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 Latakia that civil twilight runs about 25 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 30 minutes at the solstice.
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 Latakia, Syria is Asia/Damascus with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Latakia has an estimated population of 420K and is located at coordinates 35.52°N, 35.79°E.
Latakia gets 14h 34m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 45m on its shortest, averaging 12h 11m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Latakia falls at about 12:37 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 9.2° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Where the Alphabet Was Written Down: Ugarit, just north of Latakia, produced the Ugaritic alphabet around 1400 BC — one of the earliest alphabetic writing systems known, with 30 cuneiform letters. Its clay tablets were found in 1929.