Local time in Kuwait
State of Kuwait
Current local time in Kuwait (AST (UTC+3)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — Kuwait City
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Differences are relative to Kuwait City, Kuwait, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Kuwait
- Standard label
- AST (UTC+3)
- Standard offset (Kuwait City)
- UTC+3
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- Kuwait City
- IANA zones
- Asia/Riyadh
Kuwait uses AST (UTC+3) as its standard time. Clocks stay on the same offset all year round — daylight saving time is not observed. Times on this page are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database, so they always match the real current time in Kuwait.
Sunrise and sunset in Kuwait City
At 29.4° north, Kuwait City gets 14 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 10 h 16 min around the December solstice — a difference of 3 h 46 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 06:43 | 12:00 | 17:17 | 10 h 34 min |
| 21 February | 06:23 | 12:03 | 17:42 | 11 h 19 min |
| 21 March | 05:52 | 11:56 | 18:00 | 12 h 08 min |
| 21 April | 05:17 | 11:47 | 18:18 | 13 h 02 min |
| 21 May | 04:54 | 11:46 | 18:37 | 13 h 44 min |
| 21 June | 04:50 | 11:51 | 18:51 | 14 h 02 min |
| 21 July | 05:02 | 11:55 | 18:48 | 13 h 46 min |
| 21 August | 05:20 | 11:52 | 18:24 | 13 h 04 min |
| 21 September | 05:36 | 11:42 | 17:48 | 12 h 11 min |
| 21 October | 05:54 | 11:33 | 17:13 | 11 h 19 min |
| 21 November | 06:18 | 11:35 | 16:52 | 10 h 35 min |
| 21 December | 06:39 | 11:47 | 16:55 | 10 h 16 min |
Calculated for Kuwait City (29.38°, 47.98°; coordinates from Wikidata) with the standard solar-position formulas used by NOAA, for a sea-level horizon. Results are accurate to about a minute; hills, buildings and altitude shift what you actually see. Times change by only a minute or two from year to year.
Daylight saving time in Kuwait
Kuwait does not change its clocks: it stays on AST (UTC+3) all year in 2026 and 2027.
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.