| 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 |
Mecca, 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 Mecca 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 Mecca lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Mecca 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 Mecca lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Mecca 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 Mecca 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 Mecca.
Mecca (Saudi Arabia) is home to roughly 2.0M people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:11, sunset at 18:09. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 21° 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
21.42°N, 39.83°E
Currency
SAR (﷼)
Calling Code
+966
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Arabic
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Abraj Al Bait clock face is about 43 metres across — the largest clock face in the world — mounted roughly 400 metres up on a tower over 600 metres tall. It is visible from around 17 km away.
The clock: Mecca keeps UTC+3. Saudi Arabia proposed in 2010 that Mecca Mean Time replace GMT as the world's reference; the proposal did not advance.
Mecca lies at 39.8°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The 5.2° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 21 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:21 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 26m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 10h 50m. The swing between them is 2h 37m. 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 Mecca the sun comes up earliest on 8 June at 05:37, while the latest sunset waits until 6 July at 19:07. 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 Mecca 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 Mecca, Saudi Arabia is Asia/Riyadh with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Mecca has an estimated population of 2.0M and is located at coordinates 21.42°N, 39.83°E.
Mecca gets 13h 26m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 50m on its shortest, averaging 12h 9m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Mecca falls at about 12:21 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 5.2° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Clock Tower Six Times the Height of Big Ben: The Abraj Al Bait clock face is about 43 metres across — the largest clock face in the world — mounted roughly 400 metres up on a tower over 600 metres tall. It is visible from around 17 km away.