Local time in Lebanon
Lebanese Republic
Current local time in Lebanon (EET (UTC+2)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — Beirut
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Differences are relative to Beirut, Lebanon, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Lebanon
- Standard label
- EET (UTC+2)
- Standard offset (Beirut)
- UTC+2
- Daylight saving time
- Observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- Beirut
- IANA zones
- Asia/Beirut
Lebanon uses EET (UTC+2) as its standard time. Clocks move forward in summer for daylight saving time, so the local offset alternates seasonally around the UTC+2 standard. Times on this page are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database, so they always match the real current time in Lebanon.
Sunrise and sunset in Beirut
At 33.9° north, Beirut gets 14 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 9 h 54 min around the December solstice — a difference of 4 h 31 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 06:42 | 11:50 | 16:58 | 10 h 16 min |
| 21 February | 06:17 | 11:53 | 17:28 | 11 h 10 min |
| 21 March | 05:42 | 11:46 | 17:50 | 12 h 09 min |
| 21 April | 06:01 | 12:37 | 19:14 | 13 h 13 min |
| 21 May | 05:34 | 12:35 | 19:37 | 14 h 03 min |
| 21 June | 05:28 | 12:40 | 19:53 | 14 h 25 min |
| 21 July | 05:42 | 12:45 | 19:48 | 14 h 05 min |
| 21 August | 06:05 | 12:42 | 19:20 | 13 h 15 min |
| 21 September | 06:26 | 12:32 | 18:38 | 12 h 12 min |
| 21 October | 06:48 | 12:23 | 17:58 | 11 h 10 min |
| 21 November | 06:16 | 11:25 | 16:33 | 10 h 16 min |
| 21 December | 06:40 | 11:37 | 16:33 | 9 h 54 min |
Calculated for Beirut (33.89°, 35.51°; 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 Lebanon
Clocks in Beirut change twice a year. Clock changes in 2026 and 2027, in local time:
- ForwardSunday 29 March 2026
Clocks go forward 1 hour: 00:00 becomes 01:00 (UTC+2 → UTC+3) - BackSaturday 24 October 2026
Clocks go back 1 hour: 00:00 becomes 23:00 (UTC+3 → UTC+2) - ForwardSunday 28 March 2027
Clocks go forward 1 hour: 00:00 becomes 01:00 (UTC+2 → UTC+3) - BackSaturday 30 October 2027
Clocks go back 1 hour: 00:00 becomes 23:00 (UTC+3 → UTC+2)
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.