Current Time in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

How Riyadh Keeps Time

Riyadh keeps Riyadh time, UTC+3. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Riyadh; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.

Riyadh runs on the Asia/Riyadh zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC+3 right now. There is no daylight saving here, so that offset holds all year and the difference to other places only changes when they move their own clocks.

The sun rises in Riyadh at 5:55 am today and sets at 5:19 pm — 11 hours 23 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 11:37 am. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (24.71, 46.68), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Riyadh has about 13 hours 40 minutes of daylight in June and 10 hours 36 minutes in December. The difference is about 3 hours 4 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

The whole of Saudi Arabia keeps one time, so the clock on this page is also the clock in Riyadh and in every other city listed below.

Riyadh at a Glance

How Riyadh Compares with Other Cities

Read the last column as the other city relative to Riyadh. Where either place uses daylight saving, the gap changes for part of the year — the time difference calculator always shows today’s figure.

Nearby Listed Cities to Riyadh

Distances are straight-line geographic distances between the coordinates used by the directory; road or rail distances will be longer.

Other Cities in Saudi Arabia

All of these read UTC+3, the same as Riyadh, because Saudi Arabia keeps one zone nationally. Each page adds that city’s own sunrise, sunset and prayer times, which do differ.