Local time · United Arab Emirates
What time is it in United Arab Emirates?
1:49:17PM
- UTC offset
- UTC+4:00
- Daylight saving
- Not observed
- Time zones
- One nationwide
- Versus New York
- 9 hours ahead
United Arab Emirates does not change its clocks
United Arab Emirates stays on UTC+4:00 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 4 hours ahead of UTC, and 9 hours ahead of New York.
Working with United Arab Emirates from the US
Dubai is 9 hours ahead of New York and 12 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 6:00 pm in Dubai.
To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.
The sun in Dubai today
- Sunrise
- 6:34 am
- Sunset
- 5:31 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 57 minutes
- Solar noon
- 12:03 pm
The day is 10 hours 57 minutes long in Dubai, and losing 1 minute a day. The sun peaks within a few minutes of twelve o’clock, so United Arab Emirates’s offset fits its longitude about as closely as a whole-hour offset can.
The solar year swings 3 hours 9 minutes in Dubai: 13 hours 43 minutes of daylight at the June solstice against 10 hours 34 minutes at the December one. Being north of the equator, its longest day falls in June — the opposite way round from the other hemisphere.
United Arab Emirates’s offset has not moved once since 1970 — no daylight saving, and no change of zone.
Other countries
On UTC+4:00 right now, the same clock as United Arab Emirates: