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Ar Rifā‘, Bahreïn
09:47:54 AMWednesday, April 29, 2026 · Asia/Bahrain

Riffa
City in Bahrain
Heure locale actuelle
09:47:54 AM
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Fuseau horaire
AST
Asia/Bahrain · UTC+03:00
Prochain jour férié
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Chevauchement d'horaires maintenant
4 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Ar Rifā‘ right now
Aéroport le plus proche
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Ar Rifā‘
Aéroports indexés
0
Curated airport references available for Bahreïn
Snapshot at render time: 09:47:54 AM on Wednesday, April 29, 2026 in Ar Rifā‘ (UTC+03:00, AST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
Current weather
31°C, Overcast
Feels like 32°C · Humidity 48% · Wind 14 km/h
Sunrise and sunset
05:01 AM to 06:08 PM
Day length 13h 7m · Solar noon 11:35 AM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Ar Rifā‘ local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower 2026 Peak
spacemercredi 6 mai 2026
7 days to go
Code with Claude San Francisco 2026
keynotemercredi 6 mai 2026
7 days to go
Mother's Day (US) 2026
festival-seculardimanche 10 mai 2026
11 days to go
Gemini 3 Launch (rumored at Google I/O)
release-techmardi 12 mai 2026
13 days to go
48th ASEAN Summit — Cebu
politicalvendredi 15 mai 2026
16 days to go
Gemini 3 Ultra Launch (estimated window)
keynotevendredi 15 mai 2026
16 days to go
Population
115.5K
Coordinates
26.13, 50.55
Timezone
Asia/Bahrain
Aéroports indexés
0
Capital
Manama
Languages
Arabic
Currency
BHD (.د.ب)
Country area
765 km²
Read time for Ar Rifā‘ from the Asia/Bahrain zone (AST, UTC+03:00); the city carries roughly 115.5K residents and ranks #4 among curated Bahreïn entries.
The coordinates 26.13°N, 50.55°E put Ar Rifā‘ roughly 2900 km from the equator in the subtropics of the Northern Hemisphere, which is why the page expects warmer-half daylight that stretches noticeably in summer.
Today the sun rises around 05:01 AM and sets around 06:08 PM in Ar Rifā‘ — about 13h 7m of daylight. Bahreïn stays on standard time here, so UTC+03:00 is stable through the year.
Madīnat ‘Īsá (5 km from Ar Rifā‘) gives this page its nearest commuter and travel cluster, with no airport pages currently indexed for Bahreïn.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Timezone
AST
IANA Zone
Asia/Bahrain
UTC Offset
UTC+03:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+03:00
Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan, Syria
Other cities in this timezone
London
-2h
New York
-7h
Los Angeles
-10h
Dubai
+1h
Singapore
+5h
Tokyo
+6h
Sydney
+7h
São Paulo
-6h
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 Ar Rifā‘.
Riffa is the second-largest city in the Kingdom of Bahrain in terms of area. The city is divided into three parts: East Riffa, West Riffa and North Riffa. All three parts are located in the Southern Governorate.
Distance-wise, Ar Rifā‘ is closest to Dubai (~484 km), London (~5,078 km), Singapore (~6,318 km); Los Angeles is the far end at roughly 13,220 km. That ordering matters more than the timezone label for travel planning.
Ar Rifā‘ sits inside Bahreïn — the Western Asia subregion, capital Manama, languages Arabic, currency BHD (.د.ب).
Around Ar Rifā‘, the nearest mapped reference cities are Madīnat ‘Īsá (5 km), Madīnat Ḩamad (5 km), Sitrah (7 km), Dār Kulayb (9 km); treat them as the de-facto regional cluster for AST planning.
In 2015, A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Ar Rifā‘, so this page falls back to timezone and regional planning context instead of showing a broken travel panel.
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
On this day
2015: A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
2013: A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people.
2013: National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing all seven people on board.
Coordination pulse
4 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 07:47 AM | -2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 02:47 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 11:47 PM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 10:47 AM | +1h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 02:47 PM | +5h | Good to call now |
| Tokyo | 03:47 PM | +6h | Good to call now |
| Sydney | 04:47 PM | +7h | Good to call now |
| São Paulo | 03:47 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
Ar Rifā‘ est dans le fuseau horaire Asia/Bahrain (AST), avec un décalage UTC de +03:00.
Ar Rifā‘ n'observe pas actuellement l'heure d'été.
Le décalage UTC actuel pour Ar Rifā‘ est UTC+03:00.
Ar Rifā‘ sits at 26.13°N, 50.55°E in Bahreïn, with about 115.5K residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Ar Rifā‘ is Dubai, about 484 km away as the crow flies.
Madīnat ‘Īsá is the closest indexed city, roughly 5 km from Ar Rifā‘.