Indexed entity
Sharjah is the sharjah-AE record in United Arab Emirates: country slug united-arab-emirates, city slug sharjah, ISO AE, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Dubai.
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Live local time
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
03:26:11 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Dubai
Quick answer
It is currently 03:26:11 PM (GST, UTC+04:00) in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
35°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
36°C
27°C
Wed
36°C
26°C
Thu
37°C
28°C
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
UAE Dirham
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
05:27 AM
Sunset
07:05 PM
Day length
13h 37m
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 Sharjah, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 11:26 AM UTC.
Current local time
03:26:11 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
GST
Asia/Dubai · UTC+04:00
Next holiday
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Business overlap now
1 / 7
Reference markets are overlapping with Sharjah right now
Nearest airport
DXB
Dubai International Airport · 10 km
Indexed airports
8
Curated airport references available for United Arab Emirates
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 15:26 GMT+4
1 reference city is overlapping now
Sharjah is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+04:00
Zone label
GMT+4
London
12:26 PM / -3h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
DXB Dubai, 10 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:27 AM to 07:05 PM, with solar noon around 12:16 PM and total daylight of 13h 38m.
Mapped location
25.33°N, 55.41°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
12:26 PM / -3h
Good live-call window with Sharjah right now.
New York
07:26 AM / -8h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
04:26 AM / -11h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
07:26 PM / +4h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Tokyo
08:26 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 Sharjah.
DXB · Dubai International Airport
Dubai
SHJ · Sharjah International Airport
Sharjah
DWC · Al Maktoum International Airport
Dubai(Jebel Ali)
RKT · Ras Al Khaimah International Airport
Ras Al Khaimah
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Asia/Dubai for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+04:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+04:00.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London because they overlap with Sharjah right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest curated airport reference: DXB Dubai, 10 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Asia/Dubai. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Sharjah 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 Sharjah.
Canonical route
/time/united-arab-emirates/sharjah/
Catalog identity
sharjah-AE · AE · Asia
Coordinate cell
25.33°N, 55.41°E · lat 25.334 · lon 55.412 · cell 2533:5541
Population record
1,800,000 residents · country rank 3
Zone snapshot
Asia/Dubai · GMT+4 · UTC+04:00
January / July offsets
UTC+04:00 / UTC+04:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 30 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 20 km
Closest airport references
DXB Dubai 10 km · SHJ Sharjah 11 km · DWC Dubai(Jebel Ali) 55 km · RKT Ras Al Khaimah 61 km
Zone peer roster
Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · Al Ain City, United Arab Emirates
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Sharjah: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Sharjah is the sharjah-AE record in United Arab Emirates: country slug united-arab-emirates, city slug sharjah, ISO AE, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Dubai.
25.33°N, 55.41°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 25 and longitude band 55; exact decimal pair 25.33420, 55.41221.
United Arab Emirates: official name United Arab Emirates; capital Abu Dhabi; region Asia; subregion Western Asia; country population 11,294,243; area 83,600 km²; languages Arabic; currencies AED United Arab Emirates dirham. This is the country layer behind the Sharjah clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
United Arab Emirates: The United Arab Emirates (UAE), also known simply as the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, situated at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is a federal semi-constitutional monarchy made up of seven emirates, with Abu Dhabi serving as its national capital. The UAE borders Oman to the east and northeast, and Saudi Arabia to the southwest. It shares maritime borders with Qatar and Iran in the Persian Gulf, and with Oman in the Gulf of Oman. In 2024, the UAE had an estimated population of over 11 million. Dubai is the country's largest city. Islam is the state religion. Arabic is the official language while English remains the most spoken language and the language of business. Source: Wikipedia.
Dubai [dubai-AE, AE, Asia/Dubai, 30 km]; Al Ain City [al-ain-city-AE, AE, Asia/Dubai, 132 km]; Abu Dhabi [abu-dhabi-AE, AE, Asia/Dubai, 142 km]; ‘Ibrī [ibri-OM, OM, Asia/Muscat, 260 km]; Seeb [seeb-OM, OM, Asia/Muscat, 336 km]; Bawshar [bawshar-OM, OM, Asia/Muscat, 360 km]; Muscat [muscat-OM, OM, Asia/Muscat, 360 km]; Al Maţār al ‘Atīq [al-matar-al-atiq-QA, QA, Asia/Qatar, 388 km]
Sharjah is part of this indexed country cluster: Dubai [dubai-AE, Asia/Dubai, pop 3,790,000]; Abu Dhabi [abu-dhabi-AE, Asia/Dubai, pop 1,807,000]; Sharjah [sharjah-AE, Asia/Dubai, pop 1,800,000]; Al Ain City [al-ain-city-AE, Asia/Dubai, pop 846,747].
Dubai 20 km; London 5,472 km; Singapore 5,828 km; Tokyo 7,910 km; New York 11,005 km; Sydney 12,044 km; São Paulo 12,244 km; Los Angeles 13,378 km
DXB Dubai International Airport in Dubai [AE, 10 km]; SHJ Sharjah International Airport in Sharjah [AE, 11 km]; DWC Al Maktoum International Airport in Dubai(Jebel Ali) [AE, 55 km]; RKT Ras Al Khaimah International Airport in Ras Al Khaimah [AE, 61 km]; FJR Fujairah International Airport in Fujairah [AE, 95 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include AAN Al Ain International Airport in Al Ain [AE]; AUH Zayed International Airport in Abu Dhabi [AE]; AZI Al Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi [AE]; DWC Al Maktoum International Airport in Dubai(Jebel Ali) [AE]; DXB Dubai International Airport in Dubai [AE]; FJR Fujairah International Airport in Fujairah [AE]; RKT Ras Al Khaimah International Airport in Ras Al Khaimah [AE]; SHJ Sharjah International Airport in Sharjah [AE].
Sharjah renders Jun 2, 2026 · 15:26 GMT+4; GMT+4 at UTC+04:00; January UTC+04:00; July UTC+04:00; 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 Sharjah.
Sharjah is a manual-dossier city; rank #3 of 4 retained United Arab Emirates city pages. The route is /time/united-arab-emirates/sharjah/ and the city id is sharjah-AE.
Sharjah 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.
Sharjah is pinned at 25.33°N, 55.41°E; Dubai (30 km); Dubai (20 km).
Asia/Dubai resolves to stable UTC+04:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside United Arab Emirates.
DXB Dubai International Airport (10 km) · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 8 country airport references · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Sharjah 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.
Sharjah: Sharjah is a major port city and the third-most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, after Dubai and Abu Dhabi. It is the capital of the Emirate of Sharjah and forms part of the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area. The emirate shares legal, political, military and economic functions with the other emirates of the UAE within a federal framework. Each emirate has jurisdiction over some functions such as civil law enforcement and provision and upkeep of local facilities. Sharjah has been ruled by the Al Qasimi dynasty since the 18th century.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+04:00) is constant year-round.
Sharjah is listed in the dataset snapshot as 4 hours ahead of UTC (offset +04:00). 3 hours ahead of London, 5 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 55.41°, Sharjah's mean solar noon falls about 18 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.
Sharjah sits at 25.33°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 13 hours 35 minutes on the June solstice and about 10 hours 25 minutes on the December solstice.
Sharjah sits at 25.33°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 13 hours 35 minutes on the June solstice and about 10 hours 25 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 (13h 43m)
Shortest day
Dec 20 (10h 33m)
Year-round average
12h 9m
Annual swing
3h 10m
See the full daylight curve for Sharjah at /sun/sharjah/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Sharjah local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Sharjah |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 17:00 - 01:00 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 12:00 - 20:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 07:30 - 15:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 05:00 - 13:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 05:00 - 13:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 04:00 - 12:00 |
Sharjah is the capital of the Emirate of Sharjah and the third-most-populous city in the United Arab Emirates, with a population of around 1.8 million, located just north of Dubai on the Persian Gulf coast. Gulf Standard Time (GST, UTC+4) is fixed year-round across the UAE with no daylight saving. Sharjah is the only emirate with territory on both the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and it is widely regarded as the cultural capital of the UAE: it was named UNESCO Cultural Capital of the Arab World in 1998 and UNESCO World Book Capital in 2019, and it maintains a distinctive emphasis on museums, heritage, and a conservative regulatory environment that includes a ban on alcohol.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Sharjah's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 03:26:11 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Sharjah (UTC+04:00, GST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:27 AM to 07:05 PM
Day length 13h 38m · Solar noon 12:16 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Sharjah local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
1.8M
Coordinates
25.33, 55.41
Timezone
Asia/Dubai
Indexed airports
8
Capital
Abu Dhabi
Languages
Arabic
Currency
AED (د.إ)
Country area
83,600 km²
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (population rank #3 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Dubai (GST, UTC+04:00); population ~1.8M.
Coordinates: 25.33°N, 55.41°E. Northern Hemisphere subtropics, ~2812 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:27 AM and sets around 07:05 PM in Sharjah — about 13h 38m of daylight. United Arab Emirates stays on standard time here, so UTC+04:00 is stable through the year.
Dubai (30 km from Sharjah) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 8 curated airport pages indexed for United Arab Emirates.
Sharjah is indexed as a Asia city in the AE country record, using Asia/Dubai as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/united-arab-emirates/sharjah/.
Location context: 25.33°N, 55.41°E; population 1,800,000; nearest indexed city Dubai is about 30 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 20 km away.
Country planning context: capital Abu Dhabi; subregion Western Asia; languages Arabic; currency AED (د.إ); area 83,600 km²; 8 curated airport references; no upcoming holiday signal currently in view.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+04:00) is constant year-round.
Sharjah is listed in the dataset snapshot as 4 hours ahead of UTC (offset +04:00). 3 hours ahead of London, 5 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 55.41°, Sharjah's mean solar noon falls about 18 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.
Sharjah sits at 25.33°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 13 hours 35 minutes on the June solstice and about 10 hours 25 minutes on the December solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 1.8 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Sharjah: Dubai (same time), San Francisco (−11h), Los Angeles (−11h), Hong Kong (+4h), Mumbai (+1.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
united-arab-emirates
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
GST
IANA Zone
Asia/Dubai
UTC Offset
UTC+04:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+04:00
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Mauritius, Reunion, Russia
Other cities in this timezone
London
-3h
New York
-8h
Los Angeles
-11h
Singapore
+4h
Tokyo
+5h
Sydney
+6h
São Paulo
-7h
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 Sharjah.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Sharjah: closest hubs Dubai (~20 km), London (~5,472 km), Singapore (~5,828 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~13,378 km).
Sharjah sits inside United Arab Emirates — the Western Asia subregion, capital Abu Dhabi, languages Arabic, currency AED (د.إ).
Closest indexed cities to Sharjah: Dubai (30 km), Al Ain City (132 km), Abu Dhabi (142 km), ‘Ibrī (260 km).
Closest curated airport references from Sharjah: DXB Dubai (10 km), SHJ Sharjah (11 km), DWC Dubai(Jebel Ali) (55 km).
The UAE’s stable UTC+4 schedule makes it a good explanatory anchor for Gulf time.
Dubai International AirportDXB
Dubai · 10 km from Sharjah
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Sharjah International AirportSHJ
Sharjah · 11 km from Sharjah
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Al Maktoum International AirportDWC
Dubai(Jebel Ali) · 55 km from Sharjah
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 49m
Ras Al Khaimah International AirportRKT
Ras Al Khaimah · 61 km from Sharjah
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 50m
Fujairah International AirportFJR
Fujairah · 95 km from Sharjah
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 52m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
1 of 7 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 12:26 PM | -3h | Good to call now |
| New York | 07:26 AM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 04:26 AM | -11h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 07:26 PM | +4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 08:26 PM | +5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 09:26 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 08:26 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
Sharjah is in the Asia/Dubai timezone (GST), with a UTC offset of +04:00.
Sharjah does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+04:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Sharjah is UTC+04:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Sharjah, 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 · 15:26 GMT+4. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Sharjah sits at 25.33°N, 55.41°E in United Arab Emirates, with about 1.8M residents (rank #3 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Sharjah is Dubai, about 20 km away as the crow flies.
Dubai is the closest indexed city, roughly 30 km from Sharjah.
Dubai International Airport (DXB) is the closest curated airport reference, about 10 km from Sharjah.
Sharjah uses United Arab Emirates dirham (AED, symbol د.إ) as the local currency of United Arab Emirates.
The longest day of 2026 in Sharjah falls on Jun 16 with about 13h 43m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 20 with 10h 33m; the year-round average is 12h 9m.
In Sharjah local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 17:00-01:00 (next day); London 12:00-20:00; Frankfurt 11:00-19:00; Mumbai 07:30-15:30. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.