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9–17 in Tehran vs UTC
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- اربعین حسینی3 Aug 2026
- رﺣﻠﺖ ﺣﻀﺮت رﺳﻮل اﮐﺮم صلّی الله علیه وآله و سلّم11 Aug 2026
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- شهادت امام حسن عسكری علیهالسلام21 Aug 2026
- ولادت حضرت رسول اکرم صلّی الله علیه وآله و سلّم30 Aug 2026
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About Tehran
Home to roughly 9,259,009 residents, Tehran is a major metropolitan hub in Iran. The city sits at 1191 m above sea level, an elevated setting that moderates its summers.
The Asia/Tehran zone governs civic time in Tehran; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. Sun behaviour here follows the temperate pattern of the northern hemisphere, with the steepest seasonal day-length swings around the equinoxes.
Iran's currency is IRR and its calling prefix is +98. This page exposes Tehran's exact local time alongside sunrise, sunset, public holidays, and a structured-data feed at the JSON link below — useful for spreadsheets, scheduling tools, and AI assistants alike.
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Questions about time in Tehran
The current local time in Tehran, Iran is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Tehran uses the IANA time zone Asia/Tehran, currently UTC+3:30.
Whether Tehran observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Asia/Tehran) is the source of truth.
Tehran is currently 7.5 hours ahead of New York.
Tehran is currently 2.5 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Tehran are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (35.6892, 51.3890).
Iran uses the IRR currency and the +98 international dialing code.
Tehran sits at 35.6892° N, 51.3890° E, 1191 m above sea level, in Iran.