Current time in Muscat, Oman
The current local time in Muscat is shown below. Muscat observes GST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Muscat 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/Muscat
- Standard abbreviation
- GST
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇴🇲 Oman
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Muscat?
Oman keeps Gulf Standard Time at UTC+4, the same offset as the United Arab Emirates and an hour ahead of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Kuwait across the peninsula to the west. As the easternmost of the Gulf states, near 58 degrees east, Muscat sits close to the offset's reference meridian, so its clock and the sun stay well aligned. The country has never used daylight saving, holding the steady offset that its ports and gas terminals schedule around throughout the year.
What are the working hours in Muscat?
The Omani working week runs Sunday to Thursday, with Friday and Saturday the weekend, and government offices, ports, and the energy sector anchor an economy that keeps a more measured pace than the busier Gulf hubs to the north. Office hours commonly run from around 07:30 to the mid-afternoon. The summer heat drives activity into the early morning and the evening. Ramadan shortens the working day, while National Day in November, marking the country's modern renaissance, is the principal secular holiday of the year. Renaissance Day and the Prophet's birthday add further fixed pauses to the calendar.
Where is Muscat?
Muscat stretches along the coast of the Gulf of Oman in a string of low-rise districts hemmed between the sea and the bare Hajar Mountains that rise steeply behind it. The capital area holds around 1.5 million people. Oman occupies the south-eastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, facing the Indian Ocean rather than the Persian Gulf, a position that gave Muscat a long maritime history of trade with East Africa, India, and beyond.