Current Time in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
Time and Sun Facts for Al Ain
- Local time
- 1:27 am
- Date
- Sunday, 25 October 2026
- Time zone
Asia/Dubai- UTC offset
- UTC+4
- Daylight saving
- Not observed here — the offset is the same all year
- Sunrise
- 6:19 am
- Sunset
- 5:43 pm
- Day length
- 11 hours 24 minutes
- Coordinates
- 24.21, 55.74
How Al Ain Keeps Time
Al Ain keeps Dubai time, UTC+4. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Al Ain; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.
Al Ain runs on the Asia/Dubai zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC+4 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 Al Ain at 6:19 am today and sets at 5:43 pm — 11 hours 24 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:01 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (24.21, 55.74), so they shift a little every day of the year.
On the two solstices, Al Ain has about 13 hours 38 minutes of daylight in June and 10 hours 38 minutes in December. The difference is about 3 hours, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.
The whole of United Arab Emirates keeps one time, so the clock on this page is also the clock in Abu Dhabi and in every other city listed below.
Al Ain at a Glance
| Coordinates | 24.2100, 55.7400 |
|---|---|
| IANA time zone | Asia/Dubai |
| Current UTC offset | UTC+4 |
| Daylight saving | Not currently observed |
| Sunrise today | 6:19 am |
| Sunset today | 5:43 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:01 pm |
| Daylight today | 11 hours 24 minutes |
| Straight-line distance to Abu Dhabi | 140 km |
| Current clock difference vs Abu Dhabi | Same civil time |
How Al Ain Compares with Other Cities
Read the last column as the other city relative to Al Ain. Where either place uses daylight saving, the gap changes for part of the year — the time difference calculator always shows today’s figure.
| City | Local time | Compared with Al Ain |
|---|---|---|
| London | 10:27 pm | 3 hours behind |
| New York | 5:27 pm | 8 hours behind |
| Los Angeles | 2:27 pm | 11 hours behind |
| Karachi | 2:27 am | 1 hour ahead |
| Singapore | 5:27 am | 4 hours ahead |
| Tokyo | 6:27 am | 5 hours ahead |
| Sydney | 8:27 am | 7 hours ahead |
Nearby Listed Cities to Al Ain
Distances are straight-line geographic distances between the coordinates used by the directory; road or rail distances will be longer.
| City | Approx. distance | Local time |
|---|---|---|
| Dubai | 120 km | 1:27 am |
| Sharjah | 132 km | 1:27 am |
| Ajman | 136 km | 1:27 am |
| Abu Dhabi | 140 km | 1:27 am |
| Ras Al Khaimah | 177 km | 1:27 am |
Other Cities in United Arab Emirates
All of these read UTC+4, the same as Al Ain, because United Arab Emirates keeps one zone nationally. Each page adds that city’s own sunrise, sunset and prayer times, which do differ.
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