Iraq · AST
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Sulaymaniyah, Iraq runs on UTC+3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. There is a 7-hour difference between Sulaymaniyah and New York. 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 Sulaymaniyah lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. There is a 2-hour difference between Sulaymaniyah and London. 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 Sulaymaniyah lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. There is a 6-hour difference between Sulaymaniyah and Tokyo. 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 Sulaymaniyah lines up with 15:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Moscow, Athens, Istanbul. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Sulaymaniyah.
Practical Info
Sulaymaniyah (Iraq) is home to roughly 880K people. Today brings about 14.6 hours of daylight: sunrise at 04:42, sunset at 19:18. 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.
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Iraq
Capital
Baghdad
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
AST · Asia/Baghdad
Coordinates
35.56°N, 45.44°E
Currency
IQD (ع.د)
Calling Code
+964
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Arabic, Kurdish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Amna Suraka, the Red Security building, was a Baathist detention centre and is now a museum kept largely as it was found — bullet holes included. A hall of mirrors holds 182,000 shards, one for each victim of the Anfal campaign.
The clock: Sulaymaniyah keeps UTC+3 at about 880 metres in the Zagros mountains, cold enough for snow most winters.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
9h overlapSame timezone as your location.