Local time in Palestine
State of Palestine
Current local time in Palestine — this country spans 2 time zones. The clocks below update live in your browser.
Palestine spans 2 IANA time zones in total; the 1 principal zones (one per UTC offset) are shown above.
Time difference — Jerusalem (proclaimed), Ramallah (administrative)
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Differences are relative to Jerusalem (proclaimed), Ramallah (administrative), Palestine, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Palestine
- Standard label
- EET (UTC+2)
- Standard offset (Jerusalem (proclaimed), Ramallah (administrative))
- UTC+2
- Daylight saving time
- Observed
- Number of time zones
- 2
- Capital
- Jerusalem (proclaimed), Ramallah (administrative)
- IANA zones
- Asia/Gaza, Asia/Hebron
Palestine uses EET (UTC+2) as its standard time across 2 IANA zones. 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 Palestine.
Sunrise and sunset in Ramallah
At 31.9° north, Ramallah gets 14 h 14 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 10 h 04 min around the December solstice — a difference of 4 h 10 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 06:39 | 11:51 | 17:03 | 10 h 24 min |
| 21 February | 06:17 | 11:54 | 17:31 | 11 h 14 min |
| 21 March | 05:43 | 11:47 | 17:52 | 12 h 09 min |
| 21 April | 06:05 | 12:39 | 19:12 | 13 h 08 min |
| 21 May | 05:40 | 12:37 | 19:34 | 13 h 54 min |
| 21 June | 05:35 | 12:42 | 19:49 | 14 h 14 min |
| 21 July | 05:48 | 12:46 | 19:44 | 13 h 56 min |
| 21 August | 06:08 | 12:43 | 19:18 | 13 h 10 min |
| 21 September | 06:27 | 12:33 | 18:39 | 12 h 12 min |
| 21 October | 06:47 | 12:25 | 18:02 | 11 h 15 min |
| 21 November | 06:14 | 11:26 | 16:38 | 10 h 25 min |
| 21 December | 06:36 | 11:38 | 16:40 | 10 h 04 min |
Calculated for Ramallah (31.90°, 35.20°; 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 Palestine (Asia/Hebron)
Clocks in Ramallah change twice a year. Clock changes in 2026 and 2027, in local time:
- ForwardSaturday 28 March 2026
Clocks go forward 1 hour: 02:00 becomes 03:00 (UTC+2 → UTC+3) - BackSaturday 24 October 2026
Clocks go back 1 hour: 02:00 becomes 01:00 (UTC+3 → UTC+2) - ForwardSaturday 27 March 2027
Clocks go forward 1 hour: 02:00 becomes 03:00 (UTC+2 → UTC+3) - BackSaturday 30 October 2027
Clocks go back 1 hour: 02:00 becomes 01:00 (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.