Current time in Karbala, Iraq
Arabian Standard Time
UTC+03:00- Time zone
- Arabian Standard Time · Asia/Baghdad
- UTC offset now
- UTC+03:00
- Abbreviation
- AST
- Daylight saving
- Not observed: UTC+3 all year.
No clock changes are scheduled.
- Difference from you
- —
- Location
- Iraq · 32.62° N, 44.02° E
- Population
- 1,218,732
Sun and clock
On average the sun stands highest over Karbala at about 12:04 standard time: the clock runs about 4 min ahead of the sun. Over the year, solar noon falls between 11:47 and 12:18 on the local clock.
| 2026 | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox (Mar 20) | 06:07 | 18:15 | 12h 07m |
| June solstice (Jun 21) | 04:56 | 19:14 | 14h 18m |
| September equinox (Sep 23) | 05:52 | 17:59 | 12h 07m |
| December solstice (Dec 21) | 07:01 | 17:02 | 10h 00m |
Sunrise–sunset today: 05:56–17:51 (11 h 55 min of daylight)
Times are local clock times for the city centre, computed with the NOAA solar equations; hills and refraction can shift them by a few minutes.
Nearby cities
Nearest cities abroad on the same clock all year
- Kuwait City, Kuwait · 520 km
- Al Aḩmadī, Kuwait · 550 km
- Diyarbakır, Turkey · 680 km
- Damascus, Syria · 730 km
- Aleppo, Syria · 740 km
- Amman, Jordan · 760 km