EZYCLOCK

Time in Dubai

The current local time in Dubai, United Arab Emirates — updating live, with the difference from your own clock.

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Dubai time explained

Dubai keeps Gulf Standard Time all year and has never observed daylight saving. Its four-hour offset makes it a genuinely convenient midpoint: the working day overlaps with the European morning and the East Asian afternoon, which is a large part of why so much business routes through it.

Dubai does not observe daylight saving. Its offset from UTC is the same all year round, which makes scheduling with it noticeably simpler.

Reaching Dubai

A Dubai afternoon reaches London as it opens and Singapore before it closes — a genuinely rare combination, and much of the reason so much business routes through the city.

How this page works

The time above is calculated on your own device from the IANA time zone database that ships with your browser, using the zone Asia/Dubai. Nothing is fetched from a server, and the offset shown is whatever is currently in force rather than a number typed into the page — so when a country changes its rules, this page changes with it.

The difference from your own clock is worked out the same way, comparing Dubai's current offset against your device's. If your computer's clock is wrong, so is that comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Does Dubai change its clocks?

No, never. Gulf Standard Time is fixed all year.

Why is Dubai good for international meetings?

Its offset overlaps the tail of the Asian working day and the start of the European one, so a Dubai afternoon can reach both Singapore and London without anybody working unsociable hours.

Does Dubai change its clocks?

No. Dubai keeps one offset all year, so the difference to anywhere that does change its clocks will shift by an hour twice a year — from their end, not this one.