Ra’s Bayrūt, Lebanon · UTC+3
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Ra’s Bayrūt is in the Asia/Beirut timezone (EET/UTC+2, shifting to EEST/UTC+3 during daylight saving time). Ra’s Bayrūt is the headland that gives Beirut its face to the Mediterranean. The Corniche runs along the western shore, the sea wall where Beirutis have walked, jogged, and smoked at sunrise for generations. The American University of Beirut occupies the clifftop overlooking the sea. Hamra, the neighborhood behind it, was Beirut’s cultural and intellectual center in the 1960s and 1970s.
Lebanon uses Eastern European Time, UTC+2 in winter and UTC+3 during summer daylight saving. Ra’s Bayrūt follows the same schedule as the rest of Beirut and the country. The Lebanese timezone change has sometimes been fraught: in 2023, a political dispute led the government to delay the spring forward by a month, briefly creating a situation where different religious communities were on different times.
Beirut at 33 degrees north has generous Mediterranean winters: mild, sometimes rainy, rarely cold enough to close the outdoor cafes. Summer is long and warm, the sea swimmable from April through October. The light on the western headland at sunset, hitting the limestone cliffs and the seafront buildings, is one of the city’s defining daily moments.
rebuilding through repeated catastrophe
The city has rebuilt from civil war, from explosions, from economic collapse, from more, and continues. Time in Beirut is layered with all of it.
9am in Ra’s Bayrūt is 7am in London in winter.
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Questions about time in Ra’s Bayrūt
- What timezone is Ra’s Bayrūt in?
- Ra’s Bayrūt uses the IANA timezone
Asia/Beirut. The UTC offset is UTC+2 in winter (standard time) and UTC+3 during daylight saving time (summer). - Does Ra’s Bayrūt observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. Ra’s Bayrūt observes daylight saving time. In 2026, clocks spring forward one hour on Sunday, March 29 and fall back one hour on Sunday, October 25. During DST, the UTC offset shifts from UTC+2 to UTC+3.
- What is the current UTC offset for Ra’s Bayrūt?
- Ra’s Bayrūt is currently at UTC+3. It is currently observing daylight saving time.
- What is the time difference between Ra’s Bayrūt and New York?
- Ra’s Bayrūt is currently 7 hours ahead of New York.
- What is the time difference between Ra’s Bayrūt and London?
- Ra’s Bayrūt is currently 2 hours ahead of London.
- What is the time difference between Ra’s Bayrūt and Los Angeles?
- Ra’s Bayrūt is currently 10 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the time difference between Ra’s Bayrūt and Tokyo?
- Ra’s Bayrūt is currently 6 hours behind Tokyo. Tokyo does not observe daylight saving time, so this gap changes by 1 hour when Ra’s Bayrūt transitions to/from DST.
- What is the IANA timezone name for Ra’s Bayrūt?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for Ra’s Bayrūt is
Asia/Beirut. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Asia/Beirut' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Asia/Beirut')`), or any IANA-compatible library.