Current time in Kirkuk, 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 · 35.47° N, 44.39° E
- Population
- 1,031,000
Sun and clock
On average the sun stands highest over Kirkuk at about 12:02 standard time: the clock runs about 2 min ahead of the sun. Over the year, solar noon falls between 11:46 and 12:17 on the local clock.
| 2026 | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox (Mar 20) | 06:06 | 18:13 | 12h 08m |
| June solstice (Jun 21) | 04:47 | 19:20 | 14h 33m |
| September equinox (Sep 23) | 05:50 | 17:58 | 12h 07m |
| December solstice (Dec 21) | 07:07 | 16:53 | 9h 46m |
Sunrise–sunset today: 05:55–17:49 (11 h 54 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
- Diyarbakır, Turkey · 460 km
- Gaziantep, Turkey · 650 km
- Aleppo, Syria · 660 km
- Kuwait City, Kuwait · 760 km
- Damascus, Syria · 770 km
- Al Aḩmadī, Kuwait · 790 km