Current Time in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

How Dubai Keeps Time

Dubai keeps Dubai time, UTC+4. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Dubai; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.

Dubai 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 Dubai at 6:22 am today and sets at 5:44 pm — 11 hours 22 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:03 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (25.20, 55.27), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Dubai has about 13 hours 42 minutes of daylight in June and 10 hours 34 minutes in December. The difference is about 3 hours 8 minutes, 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.

Dubai at a Glance

How Dubai Compares with Other Cities

Read the last column as the other city relative to Dubai. 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 Dubai

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

Other Cities in United Arab Emirates

All of these read UTC+4, the same as Dubai, because United Arab Emirates keeps one zone nationally. Each page adds that city’s own sunrise, sunset and prayer times, which do differ.