| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −2:30 | Becomes −3:30 on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −1:30 | Becomes −2:30 on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +0:30 | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +5:30 | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +6:30 | Becomes +7:30 on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −7:30 | Becomes −8:30 on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −10:30 | Becomes −11:30 on 1 Nov |
Mashhad, Iran runs on UTC+3:30. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3:30 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Mashhad and New York is 7 hours and 30 minutes. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hour and 30 minutes a day with New York. A good time to connect: 16:30–18:00 in Mashhad lines up with 09:00–10:30 in New York. The time difference between Mashhad and London is 2 hours and 30 minutes. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 6 hours and 30 minutes a day with London. A good time to connect: 11:30–18:00 in Mashhad lines up with 09:00–15:30 in London. The time difference between Mashhad and Tokyo is 5 hours and 30 minutes. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours and 30 minutes a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–12:30 in Mashhad lines up with 14:30–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Mashhad.
Mashhad (Iran) is home to roughly 3.2M people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:25, sunset at 17:17. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3:30 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 36° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Iran
Capital
Tehran
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+3:30 · Asia/Tehran
Coordinates
36.30°N, 59.61°E
Currency
IRR (﷼)
Calling Code
+98
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Persian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The shrine of Imam Reza draws somewhere on the order of 20 million visitors annually, which makes Mashhad one of the most visited religious sites on Earth. The complex covers close to 600,000 square metres.
The clock: Mashhad lies more than 8° east of Tehran, so on the national UTC+3:30 its sunrises come about half an hour before Tehran's.
Mashhad lies at 59.6°E. Its time zone, UTC+3:30, is built around the 52.5°E meridian. The 7.1° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 28 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:32 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+3:30 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 38m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 41m. The swing between them is 4h 57m. 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 Mashhad the sun comes up earliest on 14 June at 04:13, while the latest sunset waits until 30 June at 18:53. 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 Mashhad that civil twilight runs about 26 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 Mashhad, Iran is Asia/Tehran with a current UTC offset of UTC+3:30.
Mashhad has an estimated population of 3.2M and is located at coordinates 36.30°N, 59.61°E.
Mashhad gets 14h 38m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 41m on its shortest, averaging 12h 11m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Mashhad falls at about 11:32 on UTC+3:30 standard time, because the city sits 7.1° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Twenty Million Pilgrims a Year: The shrine of Imam Reza draws somewhere on the order of 20 million visitors annually, which makes Mashhad one of the most visited religious sites on Earth. The complex covers close to 600,000 square metres.