What time is it in Iraq?

Iraq stays on UTC+3:00 all year. Its offset from UTC never moves, so its relationship to places that do change shifts twice a year instead — which is usually why someone checks. Right now it is 3 hours ahead of UTC, and 8 hours ahead of New York.

Baghdad is 8 hours ahead of New York and 11 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 5:00 pm in Baghdad.

To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.

The day is 10 hours 30 minutes long in Baghdad, and losing 2 minutes a day. The sun peaks at 11:46 am, 14 minutes before noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Baghdad sits 2 minutes of solar time west of UTC+3:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

The solar year swings 4 hours 25 minutes in Baghdad: 14 hours 22 minutes of daylight at the June solstice against 9 hours 56 minutes at the December one. Being north of the equator, its longest day falls in June — the opposite way round from the other hemisphere.

Iraq has kept UTC+3:00 since Monday, October 1, 2007, when it moved from UTC+4:00. Before that its clocks read 1 hour ahead of what they read now.

On UTC+3:00 right now, the same clock as Iraq: