What time is it in Syria?

Syria 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.

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

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 29 minutes long in Damascus, and losing 2 minutes a day. The sun peaks at 12:19 pm, 19 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Damascus sits 35 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 27 minutes in Damascus: 14 hours 23 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.

Syria has kept UTC+3:00 since Friday, March 25, 2022, when it moved from UTC+2:00. Before that its clocks read 1 hour behind what they read now.

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