Indexed entity
Al Başrah al Qadīmah is the al-basrah-al-qadimah-IQ record in Iraq: country slug iraq, city slug al-basrah-al-qadimah, ISO IQ, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Baghdad.
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Live local time
Al Başrah al Qadīmah, Iraq
01:47:36 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Baghdad
Quick answer
It is currently 01:47:36 PM (AST, UTC+03:00) in Al Başrah al Qadīmah, Iraq — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
31°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
42°C
27°C
Wed
44°C
28°C
Thu
48°C
29°C
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
IQD
Live ECB rate not available for this currency.
Conversion rates aren’t published for this currency by the ECB. The local code is shown for reference.
Today
Sunrise
04:46 AM
Sunset
06:46 PM
Day length
14h 0m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Al Başrah al Qadīmah, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:47 AM UTC.
Current local time
01:47:36 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
AST
Asia/Baghdad · UTC+03:00
Next holiday
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Al Başrah al Qadīmah right now
Nearest airport
BSR
Basra International Airport · 16 km
Indexed airports
4
Curated airport references available for Iraq
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Al Başrah al Qadīmah, Iraq.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 13:47 GMT+3
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Al Başrah al Qadīmah is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+03:00
Zone label
GMT+3
London
11:47 AM / -2h
Dubai
02:47 PM / +1h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
BSR Basra, 16 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 04:46 AM to 06:46 PM, with solar noon around 11:46 AM and total daylight of 14h 0m.
Mapped location
30.50°N, 47.82°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:47 AM / -2h
Good live-call window with Al Başrah al Qadīmah right now.
New York
06:47 AM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:47 AM / -10h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:47 PM / +1h
Good live-call window with Al Başrah al Qadīmah right now.
Singapore
06:47 PM / +5h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Al Başrah al Qadīmah.
BSR · Basra International Airport
Basra
BGW · Baghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air Base
Baghdad
EBL · Erbil International Airport
Arbil
OSM · Mosul International Airport
Mosul
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Asia/Baghdad for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+03:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+03:00.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Al Başrah al Qadīmah right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest curated airport reference: BSR Basra, 16 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Asia/Baghdad. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Al Başrah al Qadīmah has no near-term DST change or holiday interruption in view, but future rules can still be revised by local authorities.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Al Başrah al Qadīmah.
Canonical route
/time/iraq/al-basrah-al-qadimah/
Catalog identity
al-basrah-al-qadimah-IQ · IQ · Asia
Coordinate cell
30.50°N, 47.82°E · lat 30.503 · lon 47.815 · cell 3050:4782
Population record
2,015,483 residents · country rank 3
Zone snapshot
Asia/Baghdad · GMT+3 · UTC+03:00
January / July offsets
UTC+03:00 / UTC+03:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Ḩawallī, Kuwait · 132 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 940 km
Closest airport references
BSR Basra 16 km · BGW Baghdad 456 km · EBL Arbil 732 km · OSM Mosul 777 km
Zone peer roster
Baghdad, Iraq · Al Mawşil al Jadīdah, Iraq · Mosul, Iraq
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Al Başrah al Qadīmah: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Al Başrah al Qadīmah is the al-basrah-al-qadimah-IQ record in Iraq: country slug iraq, city slug al-basrah-al-qadimah, ISO IQ, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Baghdad.
30.50°N, 47.82°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 30 and longitude band 47; exact decimal pair 30.50316, 47.81507.
Iraq: official name Republic of Iraq; capital Baghdad; region Asia; subregion Western Asia; country population 46,118,793; area 438,317 km²; languages Arabic, Aramaic, Sorani; currencies IQD Iraqi dinar. This is the country layer behind the Al Başrah al Qadīmah clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Iraq: Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. Located within the Middle East, it is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south, Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the southeast, Jordan to the southwest, and Syria to the west. The country covers an area of 438,317 square kilometres (169,235 sq mi) and has a population of over 46 million, making it the 58th largest country by area and the 31st most populous in the world. Baghdad, home to over 8 million people, is the capital city and the largest in the country. Source: Wikipedia.
Ḩawallī [hawalli-KW, KW, Asia/Kuwait, 132 km]; As Sālimīyah [as-salimiyah-KW, KW, Asia/Kuwait, 132 km]; Şabāḩ as Sālim [sabah-as-salim-KW, KW, Asia/Kuwait, 140 km]; Al Aḩmadī [al-ahmadi-KW, KW, Asia/Kuwait, 161 km]; Isfahan [isfahan-IR, IR, Asia/Tehran, 437 km]; Baghdad [baghdad-IQ, IQ, Asia/Baghdad, 451 km]; Al Muharraq [al-muharraq-BH, BH, Asia/Bahrain, 546 km]; Manama [manama-BH, BH, Asia/Bahrain, 547 km]
Al Başrah al Qadīmah is part of this indexed country cluster: Baghdad [baghdad-IQ, Asia/Baghdad, pop 7,216,000]; Al Mawşil al Jadīdah [al-mawsil-al-jadidah-IQ, Asia/Baghdad, pop 2,065,597]; Al Başrah al Qadīmah [al-basrah-al-qadimah-IQ, Asia/Baghdad, pop 2,015,483]; Mosul [mosul-IQ, Asia/Baghdad, pop 1,683,000].
Dubai 940 km; London 4,541 km; Singapore 6,719 km; Tokyo 8,242 km; New York 10,092 km; São Paulo 11,710 km; Los Angeles 12,689 km; Sydney 12,971 km
BSR Basra International Airport in Basra [IQ, 16 km]; BGW Baghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air Base in Baghdad [IQ, 456 km]; EBL Erbil International Airport in Arbil [IQ, 732 km]; OSM Mosul International Airport in Mosul [IQ, 777 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include BGW Baghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air Base in Baghdad [IQ]; BSR Basra International Airport in Basra [IQ]; EBL Erbil International Airport in Arbil [IQ]; OSM Mosul International Airport in Mosul [IQ].
Al Başrah al Qadīmah renders Jun 2, 2026 · 13:47 GMT+3; GMT+3 at UTC+03:00; January UTC+03:00; July UTC+03:00; next holiday not currently surfaced.
This evidence pack keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Al Başrah al Qadīmah.
Al Başrah al Qadīmah is a manual-dossier city; rank #3 of 4 retained Iraq city pages. The route is /time/iraq/al-basrah-al-qadimah/ and the city id is al-basrah-al-qadimah-IQ.
Al Başrah al Qadīmah has 15 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Al Başrah al Qadīmah is pinned at 30.50°N, 47.82°E; Ḩawallī (132 km); Dubai (940 km).
Asia/Baghdad resolves to stable UTC+03:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Iraq.
BSR Basra International Airport (16 km) · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 4 country airport references · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Al Başrah al Qadīmah uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Qusay al-Shaykh Askar: Qusay Abd al-Ra'uf Askar, commonly known as Qusay al-Shaykh Askar is an Iraqi-Danish novelist, poet and literary scholar. His first poetry collection was published in 1983 and his first novel in 1985, since then he has created many fictional works.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+03:00) is constant year-round.
Al Başrah al Qadīmah is listed in the dataset snapshot as 3 hours ahead of UTC (offset +03:00). 2 hours ahead of London, 6 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 47.82°, Al Başrah al Qadīmah's mean solar noon falls about 11 minutes before civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run earlier on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Al Başrah al Qadīmah sits at 30.50°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 13 hours 58 minutes on the June solstice and about 10 hours 2 minutes on the December solstice.
Al Başrah al Qadīmah sits at 30.50°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 13 hours 58 minutes on the June solstice and about 10 hours 2 minutes on the December solstice.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Jun 16 (14h 7m)
Shortest day
Dec 19 (10h 10m)
Year-round average
12h 10m
Annual swing
3h 57m
See the full daylight curve for Al Başrah al Qadīmah at /sun/al-basrah-al-qadimah/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Al Başrah al Qadīmah local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Al Başrah al Qadīmah |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 16:00 - 00:00 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 06:30 - 14:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 04:00 - 12:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 04:00 - 12:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 03:00 - 11:00 |
Al Başrah al Qadīmah, the historic core of the city of Basra, is part of Iraq's principal southern port city and the capital of Basra Governorate, with the wider urban area home to roughly 2 million people. It observes Arabia Standard Time (AST, UTC+3) year-round; Iraq abolished daylight saving in 2008 and has stayed on a single offset since. Basra sits on the Shatt al-Arab waterway near the head of the Persian Gulf and is Iraq's main outlet to the sea, handling the bulk of the country's oil exports from nearby fields and terminals. Founded in the 7th century, Basra was a celebrated centre of Islamic scholarship and trade and features prominently in the tales of the Thousand and One Nights. It remains the economic gateway of southern Iraq.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Al Başrah al Qadīmah's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 01:47:36 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Al Başrah al Qadīmah (UTC+03:00, AST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
04:46 AM to 06:46 PM
Day length 14h 0m · Solar noon 11:46 AM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Al Başrah al Qadīmah local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
2M
Coordinates
30.50, 47.82
Timezone
Asia/Baghdad
Indexed airports
4
Capital
Baghdad
Languages
Arabic, Aramaic
Currency
IQD (ع.د)
Country area
438,317 km²
Al Başrah al Qadīmah, Iraq (population rank #3 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Baghdad (AST, UTC+03:00); population ~2M.
Coordinates: 30.50°N, 47.82°E. Northern Hemisphere subtropics, ~3386 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 04:46 AM and sets around 06:46 PM in Al Başrah al Qadīmah — about 14h 0m of daylight. Iraq stays on standard time here, so UTC+03:00 is stable through the year.
Ḩawallī (132 km from Al Başrah al Qadīmah) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 4 curated airport pages indexed for Iraq.
Al Başrah al Qadīmah is indexed as a Asia city in the IQ country record, using Asia/Baghdad as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/iraq/al-basrah-al-qadimah/.
Location context: 30.50°N, 47.82°E; population 2,015,483; nearest indexed city Ḩawallī is about 132 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 940 km away.
Country planning context: capital Baghdad; subregion Western Asia; languages Arabic, Aramaic, Sorani; currency IQD (ع.د); area 438,317 km²; 4 curated airport references; no upcoming holiday signal currently in view.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+03:00) is constant year-round.
Al Başrah al Qadīmah is listed in the dataset snapshot as 3 hours ahead of UTC (offset +03:00). 2 hours ahead of London, 6 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 47.82°, Al Başrah al Qadīmah's mean solar noon falls about 11 minutes before civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run earlier on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Al Başrah al Qadīmah sits at 30.50°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 13 hours 58 minutes on the June solstice and about 10 hours 2 minutes on the December solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 2 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Al Başrah al Qadīmah: Baghdad (same time), San Francisco (−10h), Los Angeles (−10h), Tokyo (+6h), Dubai (+1h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
iraq
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
AST
IANA Zone
Asia/Baghdad
UTC Offset
UTC+03:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
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 Al Başrah al Qadīmah.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Al Başrah al Qadīmah: closest hubs Dubai (~940 km), London (~4,541 km), Singapore (~6,719 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~12,971 km).
Al Başrah al Qadīmah sits inside Iraq — the Western Asia subregion, capital Baghdad, languages Arabic, Aramaic, Sorani, currency IQD (ع.د).
Closest indexed cities to Al Başrah al Qadīmah: Ḩawallī (132 km), As Sālimīyah (132 km), Şabāḩ as Sālim (140 km), Al Aḩmadī (161 km).
Closest curated airport references from Al Başrah al Qadīmah: BSR Basra (16 km), BGW Baghdad (456 km), EBL Arbil (732 km).
Basra International AirportBSR
Basra · 16 km from Al Başrah al Qadīmah
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Baghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air BaseBGW
Baghdad · 456 km from Al Başrah al Qadīmah
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 20m
Erbil International AirportEBL
Arbil · 732 km from Al Başrah al Qadīmah
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 41m
Mosul International AirportOSM
Mosul · 777 km from Al Başrah al Qadīmah
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 45m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
2 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:47 AM | -2h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:47 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:47 AM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:47 PM | +1h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:47 PM | +5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:47 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:47 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:47 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
Al Başrah al Qadīmah is in the Asia/Baghdad timezone (AST), with a UTC offset of +03:00.
Al Başrah al Qadīmah does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+03:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Al Başrah al Qadīmah is UTC+03:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Al Başrah al Qadīmah, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 13:47 GMT+3. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Al Başrah al Qadīmah sits at 30.50°N, 47.82°E in Iraq, with about 2M residents (rank #3 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Al Başrah al Qadīmah is Dubai, about 940 km away as the crow flies.
Ḩawallī is the closest indexed city, roughly 132 km from Al Başrah al Qadīmah.
Basra International Airport (BSR) is the closest curated airport reference, about 16 km from Al Başrah al Qadīmah.
Al Başrah al Qadīmah uses Iraqi dinar (IQD, symbol ع.د) as the local currency of Iraq.
The longest day of 2026 in Al Başrah al Qadīmah falls on Jun 16 with about 14h 7m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 19 with 10h 10m; the year-round average is 12h 10m.
In Al Başrah al Qadīmah local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 16:00-00:00 (next day); London 11:00-19:00; Frankfurt 10:00-18:00; Dubai 08:00-16:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.