Local time in Saudi Arabia
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Current local time in Saudi Arabia (AST (UTC+3)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — Riyadh
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Differences are relative to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Saudi Arabia
- Standard label
- AST (UTC+3)
- Standard offset (Riyadh)
- UTC+3
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- Riyadh
- IANA zones
- Asia/Riyadh
Saudi Arabia 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 Saudi Arabia.
Sunrise and sunset in Riyadh
At 24.6° north, Riyadh gets 13 h 40 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 10 h 36 min around the December solstice — a difference of 3 h 04 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 06:39 | 12:05 | 17:31 | 10 h 51 min |
| 21 February | 06:24 | 12:08 | 17:52 | 11 h 28 min |
| 21 March | 05:57 | 12:01 | 18:05 | 12 h 08 min |
| 21 April | 05:27 | 11:53 | 18:18 | 12 h 51 min |
| 21 May | 05:08 | 11:51 | 18:33 | 13 h 25 min |
| 21 June | 05:06 | 11:56 | 18:46 | 13 h 40 min |
| 21 July | 05:17 | 12:00 | 18:44 | 13 h 27 min |
| 21 August | 05:31 | 11:57 | 18:24 | 12 h 53 min |
| 21 September | 05:42 | 11:47 | 17:52 | 12 h 10 min |
| 21 October | 05:54 | 11:38 | 17:23 | 11 h 28 min |
| 21 November | 06:14 | 11:40 | 17:06 | 10 h 52 min |
| 21 December | 06:34 | 11:52 | 17:10 | 10 h 36 min |
Calculated for Riyadh (24.65°, 46.71°; 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 Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia 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.