| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −3h | Becomes −4h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −2h | Becomes −3h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | ±0h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +5h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +6h | Becomes +7h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −8h | Becomes −9h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −11h | Becomes −12h on 1 Nov |
Muscat, Oman runs on UTC+4. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+4 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Muscat and New York is 8 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hour a day with New York. A good time to connect: 17:00–18:00 in Muscat lines up with 09:00–10:00 in New York. The time difference between Muscat and London is 3 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 6 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 12:00–18:00 in Muscat lines up with 09:00–15:00 in London. The time difference between Muscat and Tokyo is 5 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–13:00 in Muscat lines up with 14:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Baku, Dubai, Abu Dhabi. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Muscat.
Muscat (Oman) is home to roughly 1.6M people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:57, sunset at 17:54. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+4 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 24° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Capital
Muscat 👑
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+4 · Asia/Muscat
Coordinates
23.59°N, 58.44°E
Currency
OMR (ر.ع.)
Calling Code
+968
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Arabic
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Oman restricts building heights in Muscat, generally to a few storeys outside designated zones, and requires new construction to follow traditional forms. The result is a capital of low white buildings spread along the coast between mountains and sea.
The clock: Muscat keeps UTC+4. The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque here holds a chandelier of about 8 tonnes and a carpet that took 600 weavers four years.
Muscat lies at 58.4°E. Its time zone, UTC+4, is built around the 60°E meridian. The 1.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 6 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:06 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+4 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 13h 35m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 10h 41m. The swing between them is 2h 55m. 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 Muscat the sun comes up earliest on 9 June at 05:19, while the latest sunset waits until 5 July at 18:57. 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 Muscat that civil twilight runs about 23 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 Muscat, Oman is Asia/Muscat with a current UTC offset of UTC+4.
Muscat has an estimated population of 1.6M and is located at coordinates 23.59°N, 58.44°E. It is the capital city of Oman.
Muscat gets 13h 35m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 41m on its shortest, averaging 12h 9m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Muscat falls at about 12:06 on UTC+4 standard time, because the city sits 1.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Country With Almost No Skyline: Oman restricts building heights in Muscat, generally to a few storeys outside designated zones, and requires new construction to follow traditional forms.