Indexed entity
Damascus is the damascus-SY record in Syria: country slug syria, city slug damascus, ISO SY, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Damascus.
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Live local time
Damascus, Syria
01:39:50 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Damascus
Quick answer
It is currently 01:39:50 PM (GMT+3, UTC+03:00) in Damascus, Syria — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
16°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
29°C
14°C
Wed
32°C
15°C
Thu
28°C
15°C
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
SYP
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
05:25 AM
Sunset
07:40 PM
Day length
14h 15m
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 Damascus, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:39 AM UTC.
Current local time
01:39:50 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
GMT+3
Asia/Damascus · 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 Damascus right now
Nearest airport
DAM
Damascus International Airport · 24 km
Indexed airports
2
Curated airport references available for Syria
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Damascus, Syria.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 13:39 GMT+3
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Damascus 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
11:39 AM / -2h
Dubai
02:39 PM / +1h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
DAM Damascus, 24 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:25 AM to 07:40 PM, with solar noon around 12:33 PM and total daylight of 14h 15m.
Mapped location
33.51°N, 36.29°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:39 AM / -2h
Good live-call window with Damascus right now.
New York
06:39 AM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:39 AM / -10h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:39 PM / +1h
Good live-call window with Damascus right now.
Singapore
06:39 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 Damascus.
DAM · Damascus International Airport
Damascus
ALP · Aleppo International Airport
Aleppo
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Asia/Damascus 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 Damascus right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest curated airport reference: DAM Damascus, 24 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Asia/Damascus. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Damascus 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 Damascus.
Canonical route
/time/syria/damascus/
Catalog identity
damascus-SY · SY · Asia
Coordinate cell
33.51°N, 36.29°E · lat 33.510 · lon 36.291 · cell 3351:3629
Population record
1,569,394 residents · country rank 2
Zone snapshot
Asia/Damascus · GMT+3 · UTC+03:00
January / July offsets
UTC+03:00 / UTC+03:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Beirut, Lebanon · 85 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 2,054 km
Closest airport references
DAM Damascus 24 km · ALP Aleppo 309 km
Zone peer roster
Aleppo, Syria · Homs, Syria · Latakia, Syria
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Damascus: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Damascus is the damascus-SY record in Syria: country slug syria, city slug damascus, ISO SY, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Damascus.
33.51°N, 36.29°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 33 and longitude band 36; exact decimal pair 33.51020, 36.29128.
Syria: official name Syrian Arab Republic; capital Damascus; region Asia; subregion Western Asia; country population 25,620,000; area 185,180 km²; languages Arabic; currencies SYP Syrian pound. This is the country layer behind the Damascus clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Syria: Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic (SAR), is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north and northwest, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest. It is a republic under a provisional government and comprises 14 governorates. Damascus is the capital and largest city. With a population of 26 million across an area of 185,180 square kilometres (71,500 sq mi), it is the 56th-most populous and 87th-largest country. Source: Wikipedia.
Beirut [beirut-LB, LB, Asia/Beirut, 85 km]; Sidon [sidon-LB, LB, Asia/Beirut, 85 km]; Ra’s Bayrūt [ra-s-bayrut-LB, LB, Asia/Beirut, 86 km]; Tripoli [tripoli-LB, LB, Asia/Beirut, 111 km]; Irbid [irbid-JO, JO, Asia/Amman, 114 km]; Homs [homs-SY, SY, Asia/Damascus, 141 km]; Haifa [haifa-IL, IL, Asia/Jerusalem, 143 km]; Zarqa [zarqa-JO, JO, Asia/Amman, 161 km]
Damascus is part of this indexed country cluster: Aleppo [aleppo-SY, Asia/Damascus, pop 2,098,210]; Damascus [damascus-SY, Asia/Damascus, pop 1,569,394]; Homs [homs-SY, Asia/Damascus, pop 775,404]; Latakia [latakia-SY, Asia/Damascus, pop 709,000].
Dubai 2,054 km; London 3,538 km; Singapore 7,854 km; Tokyo 8,948 km; New York 9,107 km; São Paulo 10,815 km; Los Angeles 12,046 km; Sydney 14,102 km
DAM Damascus International Airport in Damascus [SY, 24 km]; ALP Aleppo International Airport in Aleppo [SY, 309 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include ALP Aleppo International Airport in Aleppo [SY]; DAM Damascus International Airport in Damascus [SY].
Damascus renders Jun 2, 2026 · 13:39 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 Damascus.
Damascus is a manual-dossier city; rank #2 of 4 retained Syria city pages. The route is /time/syria/damascus/ and the city id is damascus-SY.
Damascus 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.
Damascus is pinned at 33.51°N, 36.29°E; Beirut (85 km); Dubai (2,054 km).
Asia/Damascus resolves to stable UTC+03:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Syria.
DAM Damascus International Airport (24 km) · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 2 country airport references · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Damascus 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.
Damascus: Damascus (دِمَشْق) is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is the oldest capital city in the world. Known colloquially in Syria as aš-Šām and dubbed, poetically, the "City of Jasmine", Damascus is a major cultural center of the Levant and the Arab world.
Syria abolished daylight saving time in October 2022 and has remained at UTC+3 year-round since.
Syria abolished daylight saving time in October 2022 and has remained at UTC+3 year-round since.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+03:00) is constant year-round.
Damascus 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 36.29°, Damascus's mean solar noon falls about 35 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
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 20 (14h 23m)
Shortest day
Dec 16 (9h 56m)
Year-round average
12h 11m
Annual swing
4h 27m
See the full daylight curve for Damascus at /sun/damascus/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Damascus local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Damascus |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Capital status
National capital of Syria
Damascus is the capital of Syria and one of the largest cities in the country, with a population estimated at roughly 1.6 to 2.5 million. The city observes Eastern European Time (EET, UTC+2) in winter and Eastern European Summer Time (EEST, UTC+3) in summer. Widely cited as the oldest continuously inhabited capital city in the world, with settlement dating back thousands of years, Damascus was a major centre of the Umayyad Caliphate and a vital crossroads of trade between the Mediterranean and the East. Its walled Old City, home to the 8th-century Umayyad Mosque, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the city remains the political and administrative centre of Syria.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Damascus's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 01:39:50 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Damascus (UTC+03:00, GMT+3).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:25 AM to 07:40 PM
Day length 14h 15m · Solar noon 12:33 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Damascus local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
1.6M
Coordinates
33.51, 36.29
Timezone
Asia/Damascus
Indexed airports
2
Capital
Damascus
Languages
Arabic
Currency
SYP (£)
Country area
185,180 km²
Damascus, Syria (population rank #2 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Damascus (GMT+3, UTC+03:00); population ~1.6M.
Coordinates: 33.51°N, 36.29°E. Northern Hemisphere subtropics, ~3720 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:25 AM and sets around 07:40 PM in Damascus — about 14h 15m of daylight. Syria stays on standard time here, so UTC+03:00 is stable through the year.
Beirut (85 km from Damascus) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 2 curated airport pages indexed for Syria.
Damascus is indexed as a Asia city in the SY country record, using Asia/Damascus as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/syria/damascus/.
Location context: 33.51°N, 36.29°E; population 1,569,394; nearest indexed city Beirut is about 85 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 2,054 km away.
Country planning context: capital Damascus; subregion Western Asia; languages Arabic; currency SYP (£); area 185,180 km²; 2 curated airport references; no upcoming holiday signal currently in view.
Syria abolished daylight saving time in October 2022 and has remained at UTC+3 year-round since.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+03:00) is constant year-round.
Damascus 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 36.29°, Damascus's mean solar noon falls about 35 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Damascus sits at 33.51°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 14 hours 13 minutes on the June solstice and about 9 hours 47 minutes on the December solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 1.6 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Damascus: Aleppo (same time), San Francisco (−10h), Los Angeles (−10h), Tokyo (+6h), New York City (−7h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
syria
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
GMT+3
IANA Zone
Asia/Damascus
UTC Offset
UTC+03:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
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 Damascus.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Damascus: closest hubs Dubai (~2,054 km), London (~3,538 km), Singapore (~7,854 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~14,102 km).
Damascus sits inside Syria — the Western Asia subregion, capital Damascus, languages Arabic, currency SYP (£).
Closest indexed cities to Damascus: Beirut (85 km), Sidon (85 km), Ra’s Bayrūt (86 km), Tripoli (111 km).
Closest curated airport references from Damascus: DAM Damascus (24 km), ALP Aleppo (309 km).
Damascus International AirportDAM
Damascus · 24 km from Damascus
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 47m
Aleppo International AirportALP
Aleppo · 309 km from Damascus
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 9m
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 | 11:39 AM | -2h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:39 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:39 AM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:39 PM | +1h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:39 PM | +5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:39 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:39 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:39 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
Damascus is in the Asia/Damascus timezone (GMT+3), with a UTC offset of +03:00.
Damascus 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 Damascus is UTC+03:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Damascus, 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 · 13:39 GMT+3. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Damascus sits at 33.51°N, 36.29°E in Syria, with about 1.6M residents (rank #2 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Damascus is Dubai, about 2,054 km away as the crow flies.
Beirut is the closest indexed city, roughly 85 km from Damascus.
Damascus International Airport (DAM) is the closest curated airport reference, about 24 km from Damascus.
Damascus uses Syrian pound (SYP, symbol £) as the local currency of Syria.
The longest day of 2026 in Damascus falls on Jun 20 with about 14h 23m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 16 with 9h 56m; the year-round average is 12h 11m.
In Damascus 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.