Riyadh — Asia/Riyadh
The current local time in the Asia/Riyadh IANA time zone is shown below. It is the tz database identifier used in Saudi Arabia. The zone is currently at UTC +03:00 · GMT+3 and does not observe daylight saving time.
Asia/Riyadh
Thursday, 22 October 2026 GMT+3
Zone information
Offset & DST
Current UTC offset: +03:00
Daylight saving: Not observed
Countries using Asia/Riyadh
Riyadh vs. major cities
How far Riyadh is from the world's main business centres right now, what time it is there when the working day starts in Riyadh, and which hours of a 09:00–17:00 day the two places share. Daylight saving changes are applied automatically.
| City | Difference | At 09:00 in Riyadh | Shared office hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York · United States | −7 h | 02:00 | 16:00–17:00 |
| Los Angeles · United States | −10 h | 23:00 (prev. day) | None |
| São Paulo · Brazil | −6 h | 03:00 | 15:00–17:00 |
| London · United Kingdom | −2 h | 07:00 | 11:00–17:00 |
| Paris · France | −1 h | 08:00 | 10:00–17:00 |
| Johannesburg · South Africa | −1 h | 08:00 | 10:00–17:00 |
| Dubai · United Arab Emirates | +1 h | 10:00 | 09:00–16:00 |
| Delhi · India | +2:30 h | 11:30 | 09:00–14:30 |
| Singapore · Singapore | +5 h | 14:00 | 09:00–12:00 |
| Beijing · China | +5 h | 14:00 | 09:00–12:00 |
Shared office hours are shown in Riyadh time. Compare any set of cities hour by hour in the time zone converter, or pick a slot that suits everyone with the event planner.
Clock changes in Riyadh
Riyadh has kept the same UTC +03:00 offset without daylight saving time since at least 1970.
No clock changes are scheduled in 2026 or 2027: Riyadh stays on UTC +03:00 all year.
Source: IANA tz database, as shipped with the Unicode ICU library.
Cities in this zone
Zones on the same clock as Riyadh
All IANA zones →These zones show the same time as Asia/Riyadh on every day of 2026. Their histories may differ.
Asia/Aden Amman Asia/Amman Baghdad Asia/Baghdad Bahrain Asia/Bahrain Damascus Asia/Damascus Kuwait Asia/Kuwait Qatar Asia/Qatar Addis Ababa Africa/Addis_Ababa Asmera Africa/Asmera Dar es Salaam Africa/Dar_es_Salaam Djibouti Africa/Djibouti Kampala Africa/Kampala Mogadishu Africa/Mogadishu Nairobi Africa/Nairobi Syowa Antarctica/Syowa Istanbul Europe/Istanbul Kirov Europe/Kirov Minsk Europe/Minsk More references for Asia/Riyadh
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