Madinah, Saudi Arabia Β· UTC+3
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Madinah is in the Arabia Standard Time timezone (AST/UTC+3). Saudi Arabia observes no daylight saving, keeping a permanent fixed clock year-round.
Madinah is Islamβs second holiest city, and time here is structured by something more ancient than civil timekeeping: the five daily prayers that punctuate every Muslim day. Fajr before dawn, Dhuhr at solar noon, Asr in the afternoon, Maghrib at sunset, Isha at full dark. The adhan broadcast from the Prophetβs Mosque orients the day more than any clock.
Saudi Arabia runs on Arabia Standard Time, UTC+3, year-round. No daylight saving. The kingdom made a permanent commitment to a fixed clock, which means the prayer times, calculated astronomically, shift slowly across the civil hours through the seasons. The mosque schedule is posted daily, not assumed.
pilgrims from every timezone, one local clock
The city receives millions of pilgrims annually who arrive from dozens of timezones. A visitor from Indonesia is 4 hours ahead of local time. One from Morocco is 3 hours behind. The city absorbs this multiplicity: its hotels, restaurants, and services operate at all hours to accommodate arrivals on every kind of body clock.
Makkah and Riyadh share the same timezone. 9am in Madinah is 6am in London during European winter, reflecting the three-hour UTC offset.
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Questions about time in Madinah
- What timezone is Madinah in?
- Madinah uses the IANA timezone
Asia/Riyadh. The UTC offset is always UTC+3 - this timezone does not observe daylight saving time. - Does Madinah observe daylight saving time?
- No. Madinah does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC+3 all year round.
- What is the current UTC offset for Madinah?
- Madinah is currently at UTC+3.
- What is the time difference between Madinah and New York?
- Madinah is currently 7 hours ahead of New York.
- What is the time difference between Madinah and London?
- Madinah is currently 2 hours ahead of London.
- What is the time difference between Madinah and Los Angeles?
- Madinah is currently 10 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the time difference between Madinah and Tokyo?
- Madinah is currently 6 hours behind Tokyo.
- What is the IANA timezone name for Madinah?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for Madinah is
Asia/Riyadh. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Asia/Riyadh' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Asia/Riyadh')`), or any IANA-compatible library.