| 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 |
Sulaymaniyah, Iraq runs on UTC+3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Sulaymaniyah 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 Sulaymaniyah lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Sulaymaniyah 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 Sulaymaniyah lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Sulaymaniyah 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 Sulaymaniyah 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 Sulaymaniyah.
Sulaymaniyah (Iraq) is home to roughly 880K people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:52, sunset at 17:44. 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
Iraq
Capital
Baghdad
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+3 · 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.
Sulaymaniyah lies at 45.4°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The two very nearly coincide: solar noon — the moment the sun is highest — falls at about 11:58, which is as close to true solar time as a zone this wide can get. 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 Sulaymaniyah the sun comes up earliest on 14 June at 04:42, while the latest sunset waits until 30 June at 19:18. 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 Sulaymaniyah 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 Sulaymaniyah, Iraq is Asia/Baghdad with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Sulaymaniyah has an estimated population of 880K and is located at coordinates 35.56°N, 45.44°E.
Sulaymaniyah 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 Sulaymaniyah falls at about 11:58 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 0.4° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Museum in a Former Prison: 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.