Current time in Erbil, Iraq
The current local time in Erbil is shown below. Erbil observes AST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Erbil does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- Asia/Baghdad
- Standard abbreviation
- AST
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇮🇶 Iraq
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Erbil?
Erbil uses Arabia Standard Time at UTC+3 year-round, the same offset as the rest of Iraq. The country has not observed daylight saving since 2008. Iran immediately east uses UTC+3:30 with summer DST adjustments, producing both a 30-minute step at the border and additional seasonal complexity. The city's longitude around 44 degrees east places wall time slightly ahead of mean solar noon. Turkey to the north and Saudi Arabia to the south share the UTC+3 offset. Syria immediately west uses UTC+3 with DST, producing a seasonal one-hour offset shift.
What are the working hours in Erbil?
Government administration for the Kurdistan Regional Government, oil-sector operations (the Kurdistan Region's substantial oil reserves anchor the regional economy), and a growing services and tourism sector anchor employment. Office hours run 08:00 to 16:00 in the public sector. The working week runs Sunday to Thursday, with Friday and Saturday the weekend. Ramadan substantially reshapes the working day with shorter daytime hours. The Newroz (Kurdish New Year) festival on 21 March is the principal annual cultural event. The substantial diaspora-Kurdish return travel during summer months reshapes hospitality scheduling.
Where is Erbil?
Erbil is the capital of the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq, sitting on a plain at the foot of the Zagros Mountains, around 350 kilometres north of Baghdad. The city proper holds around 1.6 million residents and the wider Erbil Governorate roughly 2 million. The Erbil Citadel, a tell rising around 30 metres above the surrounding plain and continuously inhabited since at least the 5th millennium BCE, is one of the oldest continuously occupied sites on earth and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Iranian border lies around 130 kilometres east.