Time in Riyadh
Saudi Arabia · Asia/Riyadh · latitude 24.71°
Reading your clock…
Riyadh never changes its clocks
Riyadh stays on UTC+03:00 all year round. This is worth being careful about rather than relaxed about: the gap between Riyadh 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.
Time difference from Riyadh
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 | 2 hours behind | −3h / −2h |
| New York | 7 hours behind | −8h / −7h |
| Los Angeles | 10 hours behind | −11h / −10h |
| Chicago | 8 hours behind | −9h / −8h |
| Toronto | 7 hours behind | −8h / −7h |
| Paris | 1 hour behind | −2h / −1h |
| Berlin | 1 hour behind | −2h / −1h |
| Dubai | 1 hour ahead | constant |
| Mumbai | 2 hours 30 minutes ahead | constant |
| Singapore | 5 hours ahead | constant |
| Hong Kong | 5 hours ahead | constant |
| Tokyo | 6 hours ahead | constant |
| Sydney | 7 hours ahead | +7h / +8h |
| Auckland | 9 hours ahead | +9h / +10h |
| São Paulo | 6 hours behind | constant |
| UTC | 3 hours behind | constant |
Daylight in Riyadh 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 | 06:46 | 17:36 | 10h 50m |
| February | 06:31 | 17:58 | 11h 27m |
| March | 06:05 | 18:12 | 12h 7m |
| April | 05:34 | 18:25 | 12h 51m |
| May | 05:14 | 18:39 | 13h 25m |
| June | 05:12 | 18:52 | 13h 40m |
| July | 05:23 | 18:51 | 13h 28m |
| August | 05:37 | 18:31 | 12h 54m |
| September | 05:48 | 17:59 | 12h 11m |
| October | 06:01 | 17:29 | 11h 28m |
| November | 06:21 | 17:13 | 10h 52m |
| 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 Riyadh
What time zone is Riyadh in?
Riyadh uses the IANA time zone Asia/Riyadh, a fixed UTC+03:00 with no daylight saving.
Does Riyadh observe daylight saving time?
No. Riyadh stays on UTC+03:00 all year. That does not mean the gap between Riyadh 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 Riyadh 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 3 hours behind, then 2 hours behind across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Riyadh 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 Riyadh's latitude of 24.71° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.