Hora Atual em Sohar, Omã — GST.

Sohar, officially: Suhar, is the capital and largest city of the Al Batinah North Governorate in Oman. An ancient capital of the country that once served as an important Islamic port town on the Gulf of Oman, Sohar has also been credited as the mythical birthplace of Sinbad the Sailor. It was historically known as Mazūn (مَزُوْن).

From Sohar the nearest of our reference hubs are Dubai (~174 km), London (~5,642 km), Singapore (~5,669 km), while Los Angeles sits about 13,499 km away — useful framing when someone needs a feel for whether a meeting is a regional hop or an intercontinental call.

Sohar sits inside Omã — the Western Asia subregion, capital Muscat, languages Arabic, currency OMR (ر.ع.).

Liwá (25 km), Şaḩam (27 km), Shināş (50 km), Al Khābūrah (57 km) are the nearest cities WorldClockTools indexes around Sohar — that's the cluster to use when scheduling spills past the city limits.

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