Time in Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates · Asia/Dubai · latitude 24.45°
Reading your clock…
Abu Dhabi never changes its clocks
Abu Dhabi stays on UTC+04:00 all year round. This is worth being careful about rather than relaxed about: the gap between Abu Dhabi and a city that does observe daylight saving still moves twice a year, because the other end moved. A recurring call can drift by an hour without anything changing here at all.
Same clock, different sky: Dubai share Asia/Dubai. Sunrise and sunset differ between them because latitude does, even though the clock does not.
Time difference from Abu Dhabi
Where a range is shown, the gap genuinely changes during the year. That is not rounding or hedging — it is two governments moving their clocks on different weekends.
| City | Difference now | Across the year |
|---|---|---|
| London | 3 hours behind | −4h / −3h |
| New York | 8 hours behind | −9h / −8h |
| Los Angeles | 11 hours behind | −12h / −11h |
| Chicago | 9 hours behind | −10h / −9h |
| Toronto | 8 hours behind | −9h / −8h |
| Paris | 2 hours behind | −3h / −2h |
| Berlin | 2 hours behind | −3h / −2h |
| Dubai | the same time | constant |
| Mumbai | 1 hour 30 minutes ahead | constant |
| Singapore | 4 hours ahead | constant |
| Hong Kong | 4 hours ahead | constant |
| Tokyo | 5 hours ahead | constant |
| Sydney | 6 hours ahead | +6h / +7h |
| Auckland | 8 hours ahead | +8h / +9h |
| São Paulo | 7 hours behind | constant |
| UTC | 4 hours behind | constant |
Daylight in Abu Dhabi through the year
From about 10.6 hours in December to 13.7 hours in June. This is the part a plain clock leaves out: 17:00 is a bright evening in one month and long dark in another.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 06:45 | 17:37 | 10h 52m |
| February | 06:31 | 17:58 | 11h 27m |
| March | 06:05 | 18:12 | 12h 7m |
| April | 05:34 | 18:25 | 12h 51m |
| May | 05:15 | 18:39 | 13h 24m |
| June | 05:12 | 18:51 | 13h 39m |
| July | 05:23 | 18:50 | 13h 27m |
| August | 05:37 | 18:31 | 12h 54m |
| September | 05:48 | 17:59 | 12h 11m |
| October | 06:00 | 17:29 | 11h 29m |
| November | 06:20 | 17:13 | 10h 53m |
| December | 06:40 | 17:17 | 10h 37m |
Daylight length is accurate. The clock times of sunrise and sunset assume each city sits at the centre of its time zone, which can put them up to about an hour and a quarter out for places near a zone's edge — Madrid being the standard example. Day length is unaffected.
Questions
About time in Abu Dhabi
What time zone is Abu Dhabi in?
Abu Dhabi uses the IANA time zone Asia/Dubai, a fixed UTC+04:00 with no daylight saving. The same zone covers Dubai.
Does Abu Dhabi observe daylight saving time?
No. Abu Dhabi stays on UTC+04:00 all year. That does not mean the gap between Abu Dhabi and other cities is fixed, though: when a city that does observe daylight saving changes its clocks, the difference between you and them moves even though nothing changed here.
Why does the time difference to Abu Dhabi keep changing?
Because the two places do not change their clocks on the same weekend, and in opposite hemispheres they change in opposite directions. London is a clear example: it sits 4 hours behind, then 3 hours behind across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Abu Dhabi get?
Around 13.7 hours at the longest, in June, and about 10.6 hours at the shortest, in December. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Abu Dhabi's latitude of 24.45° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.