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9–17 in Dubai vs UTC
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- المولد النبويّ25 Aug 2026
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- الإسراء والمعراج5 Jan 2027
- اليوم الأول من رمضان8 Feb 2027
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About Dubai
Home to roughly 3,331,420 residents, Dubai is a major metropolitan hub in United Arab Emirates. The city sits at 5 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
For computers and clocks, Dubai is anchored to the Asia/Dubai time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. Sun behaviour here follows the subtropical pattern of the northern hemisphere, with the steepest seasonal day-length swings around the equinoxes.
United Arab Emirates's currency is AED and its calling prefix is +971. Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent Dubai's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in Dubai
The current local time in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Dubai uses the IANA time zone Asia/Dubai, currently UTC+4.
Whether Dubai observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Asia/Dubai) is the source of truth.
Dubai is currently 8 hours ahead of New York.
Dubai is currently 3 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Dubai are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (25.2048, 55.2708).
United Arab Emirates uses the AED currency and the +971 international dialing code.
Dubai sits at 25.2048° N, 55.2708° E, 5 m above sea level, in United Arab Emirates.