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Sharjah, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
05:57:34 PMThursday, April 30, 2026 · Asia/Dubai

Sharjah
Capital of the Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Aktuelle Ortszeit
05:57:34 PM
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Zeitzone
GST
Asia/Dubai · UTC+04:00
Nächster Feiertag
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Geschäftsüberschneidung jetzt
0 / 7
Reference markets are overlapping with Sharjah right now
Nächster Flughafen
DXB
Dubai International Airport · 10 km
Indexierte Flughäfen
8
Curated airport references available for Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Snapshot at render time: 05:57:34 PM on Thursday, April 30, 2026 in Sharjah (UTC+04:00, GST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 120
Days Remaining
245
Current weather
31°C, Clear sky
Feels like 34°C · Humidity 60% · Wind 9 km/h
Sunrise and sunset
05:42 AM to 06:48 PM
Day length 13h 6m · Solar noon 12:15 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Sharjah local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
1.8M
Coordinates
25.33, 55.41
Timezone
Asia/Dubai
Indexierte Flughäfen
8
Capital
Abu Dhabi
Languages
Arabic
Currency
AED (د.إ)
Country area
83,600 km²
For Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, Sharjah (rank #3 by population in this dataset) reads GST, UTC+04:00 on the IANA zone Asia/Dubai, and the city's roughly 1.8M residents make it a practical scheduling anchor.
Geographically, Sharjah is at 25.33°N, 55.41°E — that places it in the Northern Hemisphere's subtropics, about 2812 km from the equator, with warmer-half daylight that stretches noticeably in summer.
Today the sun rises around 05:42 AM and sets around 06:48 PM in Sharjah — about 13h 6m of daylight. Vereinigte Arabische Emirate stays on standard time here, so UTC+04:00 is stable through the year.
Halwan (2 km from Sharjah) gives this page its nearest commuter and travel cluster, with 8 curated airport pages indexed for Vereinigte Arabische Emirate.
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Timezone
GST
IANA Zone
Asia/Dubai
UTC Offset
UTC+04:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 120
Days Remaining
245
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+04:00
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Mauritius, Reunion, Russia
Other cities in this timezone
London
-3h
New York
-8h
Los Angeles
-11h
Singapore
+4h
Tokyo
+5h
Sydney
+6h
São Paulo
-7h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Sharjah.
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 02:57 PM | -3h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 09:57 AM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 06:57 AM | -11h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 09:57 PM | +4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 10:57 PM | +5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 11:57 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 10:57 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
Halwan
Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Approx. 2 km away
Al Majaz
Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Approx. 3 km away
Al Qusais 1
Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Approx. 7 km away
Ar Rumaylah
Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Approx. 8 km away
Al Waheda
Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Approx. 9 km away
Abū Hayl
Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Approx. 10 km away
Hawr al ‘Anz
Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Approx. 10 km away
Al Mizhar First
Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Approx. 10 km away
Sharjah liegt in der Zeitzone Asia/Dubai (GST), mit einem UTC-Versatz von +04:00.
Sharjah beachtet derzeit nicht die Sommerzeit.
Der aktuelle UTC-Versatz für Sharjah ist UTC+04:00.
Sharjah sits at 25.33°N, 55.41°E in Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, with about 1.8M residents (rank #3 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Sharjah is Dubai, about 20 km away as the crow flies.
Halwan is the closest indexed city, roughly 2 km from Sharjah.
Dubai International Airport (DXB) is the closest curated airport reference, about 10 km from Sharjah.
Sharjah is a major port city and the third-most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, after Dubai and Abu Dhabi. It is the capital of the Emirate of Sharjah and forms part of the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area. The emirate shares legal, political, military and economic functions with the other emirates of the UAE within a federal framework. Each emirate has jurisdiction over some functions such as civil law enforcement and provision and upkeep of local facilities. Sharjah has been ruled by the Al Qasimi dynasty since the 18th century.
From Sharjah the nearest of our reference hubs are Dubai (~20 km), London (~5,472 km), Singapore (~5,828 km), while Los Angeles sits about 13,378 km away — useful framing when someone needs a feel for whether a meeting is a regional hop or an intercontinental call.
Sharjah sits inside Vereinigte Arabische Emirate — the Western Asia subregion, capital Abu Dhabi, languages Arabic, currency AED (د.إ).
Halwan (2 km), Al Majaz (3 km), Al Qusais 1 (7 km), Ar Rumaylah (8 km) are the nearest cities WorldClockTools indexes around Sharjah — that's the cluster to use when scheduling spills past the city limits.
Closest curated airport references from Sharjah: DXB Dubai (10 km), SHJ Sharjah (11 km), DWC Dubai(Jebel Ali) (55 km).
In 2021, Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.
The UAE’s stable UTC+4 schedule makes it a good explanatory anchor for Gulf time.
Dubai International AirportDXB
Dubai · 10 km from Sharjah
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Sharjah International AirportSHJ
Sharjah · 11 km from Sharjah
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Al Maktoum International AirportDWC
Dubai(Jebel Ali) · 55 km from Sharjah
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 49m
Ras Al Khaimah International AirportRKT
Ras Al Khaimah · 61 km from Sharjah
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 50m
Fujairah International AirportFJR
Fujairah · 95 km from Sharjah
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 52m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
On this day
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Coordination pulse
0 of 7 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now