It is 3:09 pm in Asia/Famagusta

Asia/Famagusta is the IANA identifier for the time zone of Famagusta in Cyprus. It is running at UTC+3 right now, with no letter abbreviation in common use, and the local date is Saturday, September 26, 2026. The zone is on its summer offset at the moment.

What time is it in Asia/Famagusta right now

3:09 pm on Saturday, September 26, 2026, as this page was served, which in 24 hour form is 15:09. The clock above ticks on from there in your own browser. The offset is a whole 3 hours ahead of UTC, so a UTC timestamp converts here by changing the hour and leaving the minutes exactly as they are.

41 other zones read UTC+3 at this instant. They are interchangeable as a clock reading today and not as an identifier: storing UTC+3 instead of Asia/Famagusta throws away the rule that decides what they all do at the next transition.

The UTC offset of Asia/Famagusta

An offset of UTC+3 names the meridian 45.0 degrees east. Nicosia, Cyprus actually sits at 33.38 degrees east, which is 11.6 degrees west of it, so the sun there runs about 46 minutes behind the clock before daylight saving is even considered. Zone boundaries are drawn by borders and by convenience, not by longitude, and this is the size of the gap that produces.

Because this zone moves its clocks, UTC+3 is only today's answer. It runs at UTC+2 for the winter part of the year and UTC+3 for the summer part, a difference of 1 hour, and any gap memorised against it is wrong for part of the year.

Daylight saving in Asia/Famagusta

Asia/Famagusta does observe daylight saving. The next change is on October 25, 2026: at 3:00 am local the clocks go back, and UTC+3 becomes UTC+2. That hour is repeated, so every reading inside it happens twice, which is why a wall clock time in this zone is not always a single instant.

Every clock change the database has for this zone in 2025, 2026 and 2027, with the exact local reading either side of the jump.

How the offset of Asia/Famagusta has changed since 1970

Read on 1 January and 1 July of each year, which is the cheapest pair of samples that shows both the winter offset and whether the clocks moved that summer. The zone has passed through 4 distinct eras in that time and has used 2 different offsets: UTC+2, UTC+3. Its current behaviour has held since 2018. A rule change that began and ended between July and the following January is invisible to this sampling, so the table is a shape rather than a complete edit history.

The earliest summer shift this sampling sees here is 1975, and the zone has kept moving its clocks since. The dates the change falls on have moved several times even where the rule has not.

Countries and regions that use Asia/Famagusta

One country uses Asia/Famagusta: Cyprus, which keeps 2 zones in total and has a population of about 1,260,000.

Cities in the Asia/Famagusta time zone

This site does not yet carry a city page inside Asia/Famagusta, so the readings here are computed for the identifier itself and anchored at Nicosia, Cyprus. That costs nothing in accuracy: an offset is a property of the zone, not of a settlement, so the clock above is right for every point inside it. The city index lists the 6,338 places that do have their own page.

The sun against the clock in Asia/Famagusta

Worked out for Nicosia, Cyprus, the capital of a country that keeps the zone, at 35.19 degrees north, 33.38 degrees east. The sun rises at 6:37 am and sets at 6:38 pm, giving 12 hours 1 minute of daylight. Solar noon, the moment the sun is highest, falls at 12:38 pm, which is 38 minutes after clock noon.

That gap is the whole argument about where zone lines belong, in one number. It is made of three things: Nicosia, Cyprus sitting 11.6 degrees west of the UTC+3 meridian, the equation of time, which today runs 8.6 minutes ahead of mean time, and the hour of daylight saving currently in force.

Convert Asia/Famagusta to another time zone

The converter is keyed on the abbreviations people type rather than on identifiers. Asia/Famagusta is at UTC+3 right now, the same reading as EET, so these pages answer the same question for it today. They will diverge if the two zones ever adopt different daylight saving rules, which is exactly why the identifier is the thing worth storing.

Questions about Asia/Famagusta

What time is it in Asia/Famagusta right now?

3:09 pm on Saturday, September 26, 2026, as this page was served. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.

What is the UTC offset of Asia/Famagusta?

UTC+3 at this instant, and it alternates between UTC+2 in winter and UTC+3 in summer.

Does Asia/Famagusta observe daylight saving time?

Yes. The next change is October 25, 2026, when the clocks go back.

What is the abbreviation for Asia/Famagusta?

There is no English letter abbreviation in common use for this zone, so it is written as its offset, UTC+3. That is what every other clock shows for it too.

Which countries use Asia/Famagusta?

Cyprus.

Why store Asia/Famagusta instead of UTC+3?

Because the offset is an output and the identifier is the input. This zone alone has two offsets in a year, and 41 other zones share its current reading while carrying different rules. A record storing UTC+3 cannot tell them apart; a record storing Asia/Famagusta keeps working through every future rule change.

Other time zones in Asia

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