What time is it in Kuwait right now? 🇰🇼
It is 2:18 pm in Kuwait City right now, Friday, September 25, 2026. Kuwait runs on UTC+3. Every reading on this page is computed from the IANA time zone database at the moment you loaded it, and the clocks above and below tick on from there.
Time in Kuwait now
Kuwait keeps a single time zone, Asia/Kuwait, so there is one answer to the question and it is the same in every town: 2:18 pm. The offset is UTC+3, and it never moves.
The offset from UTC in Kuwait City is UTC+3, which is 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Nine in the morning in Kuwait City is 6:00 am UTC.
Kuwait time zone in full
Each row is a zone identifier from the IANA database, its reading at this instant, its offset from UTC and whether it is currently on standard or summer time. All of them agree today, which is the usual case for Kuwait.
| Time zone | Time now | UTC offset | Abbreviation | Daylight saving |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Asia/Kuwait | 2:18 pm | UTC+3 | UTC+3 | never moves |
Does Kuwait have daylight saving time?
No part of Kuwait moves its clocks. The offset stays at UTC+3 through the whole year, which means a difference worked out today against Kuwait is still right in six months. Most of the world now works this way; the daylight saving habit is concentrated in Europe, North America and a short list of others.
A fixed offset makes Kuwait an easy place to schedule against, with one caveat: the country at the other end of the call may still be moving its clocks, so the gap can change even though nothing changed here. The windows further down this page are worked out at the current instant for exactly that reason.
Where Kuwait is on the map
The marker is on Kuwait City, the point every sun reading and every call window on this page is worked out from.
An interactive map of Kuwait City. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Kuwait City on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Kuwait City and major cities
Worked out at this instant rather than from a stored table, so daylight saving on either side is already in it.
| City | Time there now | Difference from Kuwait City |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, CA | 4:18 am | 10 hours behind Kuwait City |
| Chicago, IL | 6:18 am | 8 hours behind Kuwait City |
| New York, NY | 7:18 am | 7 hours behind Kuwait City |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 8:18 am | 6 hours behind Kuwait City |
| London, United Kingdom | 12:18 pm | 2 hours behind Kuwait City |
| Paris, France | 1:18 pm | 1 hour behind Kuwait City |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 1:18 pm | 1 hour behind Kuwait City |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 3:18 pm | 1 hour ahead of Kuwait City |
| Delhi, India | 4:48 pm | 2 hours 30 minutes ahead of Kuwait City |
| Singapore, Singapore | 7:18 pm | 5 hours ahead of Kuwait City |
| Tokyo, Japan | 8:18 pm | 6 hours ahead of Kuwait City |
| Sydney, Australia | 9:18 pm | 7 hours ahead of Kuwait City |
Best time to call Kuwait
A nine to five working day in Kuwait City against a nine to five day elsewhere. The overlap column is the stretch when both desks are open, given on each side's own clock.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Kuwait City | Window there |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York the US East Coast | 7 hours ahead | 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm | 9:00 am to 10:00 am |
| Los Angeles the US West Coast | 10 hours ahead | no shared working hours | try either side of the working day |
| London the United Kingdom | 2 hours ahead | 11:00 am to 5:00 pm | 9:00 am to 3:00 pm |
| Mumbai India | 2 hours 30 minutes behind | 9:00 am to 2:30 pm | 11:30 am to 5:00 pm |
Daylight hours in Kuwait City today
In Kuwait City the sun rose at 5:38 am today and sets at 5:41 pm, giving 12 hours 3 minutes of daylight. The capital is losing 1 minute 45 seconds of daylight a day at the moment, and the sun stands highest at 11:40 am.
Solar noon in Kuwait City is 11:40 am, which is 20 minutes before clock noon. That gap is the capital sitting at 47.98 degrees east while its clock is set to Asia/Kuwait, plus the equation of time, which today runs 8.3 minutes ahead of mean time.
Moon phase over Kuwait City tonight
The moon is full moon tonight, 14.3 days into the current lunation, with roughly 100 percent of the disc lit. The next full moon falls on September 26, 2026 as Kuwait reads the date, at 7:48 pm local. The moon phase page has the full cycle.
Current time in Kuwait cities
The 5 cities this site covers inside Kuwait, alphabetically, each with its own ticking clock and its own sunrise page.
| City | Time now | Offset | Sunrise and sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Al Ahmadi | 2:18 pm | UTC+3 | Al Ahmadi sun times |
| As Salimiyah | 2:18 pm | UTC+3 | As Salimiyah sun times |
| Hawalli | 2:18 pm | UTC+3 | Hawalli sun times |
| Kuwait City | 2:18 pm | UTC+3 | Kuwait City sun times |
| Sabah as Salim | 2:18 pm | UTC+3 | Sabah as Salim sun times |
Every IANA time zone in Kuwait
These are the identifiers a computer uses. A program that stores Asia/Kuwait rather than UTC+3 keeps working through every future rule change, which is the whole reason the database is keyed this way.
Convert Kuwait time to another zone
The converter pages below take UTC+3 against the zones people most often measure it from. Each one carries a full conversion table rather than a single answer.
Information about Kuwait
Kuwait sits in Asia, carries the ISO country code KW and a population of about 4,310,000. Its capital Kuwait City is at 29.38 degrees north, 47.98 degrees east, which is the coordinate every sunrise and solar noon on this page is computed from.
Upcoming dates in Kuwait
Read on Kuwait's own clock, so the day counts below start from September 25 and not from a UTC date. The list is the internationally observed calendar plus the dates common across Asia, along with this country's own clock changes and the next solstices and equinoxes. National days set by a country's own statute are not included, because this site carries no statute table and a guessed one would be worse than an honest gap.
| Date | Day | What falls on it | Days away |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 21, 2026 | Monday | December solstice, 11:50 pm local astronomical | 87 |
| December 25, 2026 | Friday | Christmas Day observed widely | 91 |
| December 31, 2026 | Thursday | New Year's Eve observance | 97 |
| January 1, 2027 | Friday | New Year's Day observed almost everywhere | 98 |
| March 20, 2027 | Saturday | March equinox, 11:24 pm local astronomical | 176 |
| May 1, 2027 | Saturday | International Workers' Day public holiday in most countries | 218 |
| June 21, 2027 | Monday | June solstice, 5:10 pm local astronomical | 269 |
| September 23, 2027 | Thursday | September equinox, 9:01 am local astronomical | 363 |
| December 22, 2027 | Wednesday | December solstice, 5:42 am local astronomical | 453 |
| December 25, 2027 | Saturday | Christmas Day observed widely | 456 |
Sun and moon in Kuwait City today
The sun is up in Kuwait City for 12 hours 3 minutes today, from 5:38 am to 5:41 pm. The moon sets in Kuwait City at 4:09 am and comes up again at 4:53 pm. The next phase is the full moon on September 26, 2026. It is 98% lit at the moment, a full moon, filling out by about 3.0 percentage points a day.
| Sun | Time in Kuwait City |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 4:19 am |
| Nautical dawn | 4:47 am |
| Civil dawn | 5:14 am |
| Sunrise | 5:38 am |
| Solar noon | 11:40 am |
| Sunset | 5:41 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:05 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 6:33 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:00 pm |
Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.
| Light band | Time in Kuwait City | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 5:14 am to 5:23 am | 0h 09m |
| Morning golden hour | 5:23 am to 6:09 am | 0h 46m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:10 pm to 5:56 pm | 0h 46m |
| Evening blue hour | 5:56 pm to 6:05 pm | 0h 09m |
Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.
| Moon | Reading in Kuwait City |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 4:53 pm |
| Moonset | 4:09 am |
| Phase | full moon, waxing |
| Illumination | 98% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 14.2 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 385,000 km |
Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.
Meeting planner: Kuwait and four other places
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026 in Kuwait, read across 4 other places. Columns are Kuwait local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
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| Kuwait local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KuwaitUTC+3 UTC+3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPDT UTC-7 | 14-1 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| LondonBST UTC+1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 2:30 | 3:30 | 4:30 | 5:30 | 6:30 | 7:30 | 8:30 | 9:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 22:30 | 23:30 | 0:30+1 | 1:30+1 |
No hour on Friday, September 25, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Los Angeles and Delhi are 12 hours 30 minutes apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 11:00 am in Kuwait it is working hours in Kuwait, London and Delhi, but outside them in Los Angeles and New York. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Kuwait City
Seven days from September 25, 2026, computed for Kuwait City at 29.38 degrees north, 47.98 degrees east, on the clock of Asia/Kuwait. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday September 25 | 4:19 am | 5:38 am | 11:40 am | 3:06 pm | 5:41 pm | 6:56 pm |
| Saturday September 26 | 4:19 am | 5:38 am | 11:39 am | 3:05 pm | 5:40 pm | 6:54 pm |
| Sunday September 27 | 4:20 am | 5:39 am | 11:39 am | 3:04 pm | 5:39 pm | 6:53 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 4:20 am | 5:40 am | 11:39 am | 3:04 pm | 5:38 pm | 6:52 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 4:21 am | 5:40 am | 11:38 am | 3:03 pm | 5:36 pm | 6:51 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 4:22 am | 5:41 am | 11:38 am | 3:02 pm | 5:35 pm | 6:49 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 4:22 am | 5:41 am | 11:38 am | 3:01 pm | 5:34 pm | 6:48 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Kuwait City, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.
Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.
Qibla direction from Kuwait City
From Kuwait City the qibla is 224.6 degrees on a true compass, which is southwest, or 44.6 degrees east of due south. The Kaaba is 1,204 km away, 748 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Kuwait City to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.
The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Kuwait City before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.
Questions about the time in Kuwait
- What time is it in Kuwait right now?
- It is 2:18 pm in Kuwait City as this page was served, Friday, September 25, 2026. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.
- What time zone is Kuwait in?
- Kuwait uses Asia/Kuwait, currently UTC+3 at UTC+3.
- What is the UTC offset in Kuwait?
- UTC+3 in Kuwait City at this instant.
- Does Kuwait observe daylight saving time?
- No. Kuwait stays on UTC+3 all year and does not move its clocks.
- What time does the sun set in Kuwait City today?
- 5:41 pm, after a sunrise at 5:38 am and 12 hours 3 minutes of daylight.
- When is the best time to call Kuwait from the United States?
- Between 9:00 am and 10:00 am New York time, which is 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm in Kuwait City.
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