Heure Actuelle à Ḩawallī, Koweït — AST.

Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia. With a coastline of approximately 500 km (311 mi), it is situated at the head of the Persian Gulf in the northeastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula, bordering Iraq to the north and Saudi Arabia to the south. Kuwait is geographically the closest Gulf country to mainland Iran. The country is a small city-state; most of the population reside in the urban agglomeration of Kuwait City, the capital and largest city. As of 2024, Kuwait has a population of 4.82 million, of which 1.53 million are Kuwaiti citizens while the remaining 3.29 million are foreign nationals from over 100 countries. In 2024, Kuwait had the world's seventh largest number of foreign nationals as a percentage of the population, where its citizens make up fewer than 30% of the overall population.

Distance-wise, Ḩawallī is closest to Dubai (~850 km), London (~4,649 km), Singapore (~6,660 km); Sydney is the far end at roughly 12,896 km. That ordering matters more than the timezone label for travel planning.

Ḩawallī sits inside Koweït — the Western Asia subregion, capital Kuwait City, languages Arabic, currency KWD (د.ك).

Around Ḩawallī, the nearest mapped reference cities are Bayān (4 km), Ad Dasmah (4 km), As Sālimīyah (5 km), Ar Rumaythīyah (5 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.