Current time in Manama, Bahrain
The current local time in Manama is shown below. Manama observes AST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Manama 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/Bahrain
- Standard abbreviation
- AST
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇧🇠Bahrain
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Manama?
Bahrain keeps a fixed UTC+3 offset shared with Saudi Arabia immediately to the west, so the daily flow of commuters and the heavy weekend traffic across the King Fahd Causeway crosses no time boundary at all, an ease of coordination that few international crossings allow. Near 50.6 degrees east the island lies a little east of the offset's meridian, leaving the sun slightly ahead of the clock. The country observes no daylight saving, holding the same time throughout the year.
What are the working hours in Manama?
Banking and financial services give Manama a working rhythm tied to market hours, with the week running Sunday to Thursday and Friday and Saturday the weekend. Many Saudi visitors cross the causeway for those two days, so the city's hotels, restaurants, and retail run hardest from Thursday evening, a weekend economy built partly on its larger neighbour. Office hours commonly run 08:00 to 17:00 with a long Friday-prayer break in the relevant institutions. Ramadan shortens the working day, and the Eid holidays are the principal annual closures.
Where is Manama?
Manama sits at the northern tip of Bahrain, a small archipelago in the Persian Gulf joined to the Saudi mainland by the King Fahd Causeway. The capital and its surrounding districts hold the bulk of the country's roughly 1.5 million people on a low, flat island where land has steadily been reclaimed from the shallow sea. It has been a pearling and trading port for centuries and is now one of the Gulf's established banking centres.