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9–17 in Riyadh vs UTC
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- اليوم الوطني23 Sept 2026
- يوم التأسيس22 Feb 2027
- عيد الفطر9 Mar 2027
- عيد الأضحى15 May 2027
- اليوم الوطني23 Sept 2027
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About Riyadh
Home to roughly 7,676,654 residents, Riyadh is a large regional centre in Saudi Arabia. The city sits at 612 m above sea level, an elevated setting that moderates its summers.
The Asia/Riyadh zone governs civic time in Riyadh; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the subtropical belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (24.71°).
Visitors will find prices listed in SAR; phones reach Saudi Arabia via the +966 country code. Beyond the live clock, every datapoint on this page — sun events, holidays, time-zone offsets — is also available as machine-readable JSON, ready for agents and integrations.
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Questions about time in Riyadh
The current local time in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Riyadh uses the IANA time zone Asia/Riyadh, currently UTC+3.
Whether Riyadh observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Asia/Riyadh) is the source of truth.
Riyadh is currently 7 hours ahead of New York.
Riyadh is currently 2 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Riyadh are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (24.7136, 46.6753).
Saudi Arabia uses the SAR currency and the +966 international dialing code.
Riyadh sits at 24.7136° N, 46.6753° E, 612 m above sea level, in Saudi Arabia.