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Ash Shāmīyah, Irak
10:14:56 AMWednesday, April 29, 2026 · Asia/Baghdad

Syrian desert
Desert in West Asia
Güncel yerel saat
10:14:56 AM
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Saat dilimi
AST
Asia/Baghdad · UTC+03:00
Sonraki tatil
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Şu an iş saati örtüşmesi
3 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Ash Shāmīyah right now
En yakın havalimanı
BGW
Baghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air Base · 149 km
İndekslenen havalimanları
4
Curated airport references available for Irak
Snapshot at render time: 10:14:56 AM on Wednesday, April 29, 2026 in Ash Shāmīyah (UTC+03:00, AST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
Current weather
26°C, Mostly clear
Feels like 28°C · Humidity 61% · Wind 9 km/h
Sunrise and sunset
05:17 AM to 06:40 PM
Day length 13h 23m · Solar noon 11:59 AM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Ash Shāmīyah local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
57.7K
Coordinates
31.96, 44.60
Timezone
Asia/Baghdad
İndekslenen havalimanları
4
Capital
Baghdad
Languages
Arabic, Aramaic
Currency
IQD (ع.د)
Country area
438,317 km²
For Irak, Ash Shāmīyah (rank #52 by population in this dataset) reads AST, UTC+03:00 on the IANA zone Asia/Baghdad, and the city's roughly 57.7K residents make it a practical scheduling anchor.
Ash Shāmīyah sits at 31.96°N, 44.60°E; that's the subtropics (Northern Hemisphere, ~3548 km from the equator) and the daylight pattern reflects warmer-half daylight that stretches noticeably in summer.
Today the sun rises around 05:17 AM and sets around 06:40 PM in Ash Shāmīyah — about 13h 23m of daylight. Irak stays on standard time here, so UTC+03:00 is stable through the year.
Kufa (18 km from Ash Shāmīyah) gives this page its nearest commuter and travel cluster, with 4 curated airport pages indexed for Irak.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Timezone
AST
IANA Zone
Asia/Baghdad
UTC Offset
UTC+03:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
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 Ash Shāmīyah.
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 08:14 AM | -2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 03:14 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 12:14 AM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 11:14 AM | +1h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 03:14 PM | +5h | Good to call now |
| Tokyo | 04:14 PM | +6h | Good to call now |
| Sydney | 05:14 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 04:14 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
Ash Shāmīyah, Asia/Baghdad saat dilimindedir (AST), UTC farkı +03:00'dir.
Ash Shāmīyah şu anda yaz saati uygulaması yapmamaktadır.
Ash Shāmīyah için güncel UTC farkı UTC+03:00'dir.
Ash Shāmīyah sits at 31.96°N, 44.60°E in Irak, with about 57.7K residents (rank #52 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Ash Shāmīyah is Dubai, about 1,283 km away as the crow flies.
Kufa is the closest indexed city, roughly 18 km from Ash Shāmīyah.
Baghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air Base (BGW) is the closest curated airport reference, about 149 km from Ash Shāmīyah.
The Syrian desert, also known as the North Arabian desert, the Jordanian steppe, the Syrian steppe, or the Badiya, or Badiyat al-Sham, is a region of desert, semi-desert, and steppe, covering about 500,000 square kilometers of West Asia, including parts of northern Saudi Arabia, eastern Jordan, southern Syria, and western Iraq. It accounts for about 85% of the land area of Jordan and 55% of Syria. To the south, it borders and merges into the Arabian Desert. The land is open, rocky or gravelly desert pavement, cut with occasional wadis, or river valleys, generally dry riverbeds.
Reading Ash Shāmīyah against the global hubs: Dubai (~1,283 km), London (~4,210 km), Singapore (~7,058 km) are the close ones, with Sydney (~13,317 km) sitting on the opposite side of the planet — a good gut check when judging logistics windows.
Ash Shāmīyah sits inside Irak — the Western Asia subregion, capital Baghdad, languages Arabic, Aramaic, Sorani, currency IQD (ع.د).
The closest mapped neighbors of Ash Shāmīyah are Kufa (18 km), Al Mishkhāb (20 km), Nahiyat Ghammas (24 km), Najaf (25 km), so commuter, logistics and same-day-trip planning will usually pull from this cluster.
Closest curated airport references from Ash Shāmīyah: BGW Baghdad (149 km), BSR Basra (331 km), EBL Arbil (479 km).
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.
Baghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air BaseBGW
Baghdad · 149 km from Ash Shāmīyah
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 56m
Basra International AirportBSR
Basra · 331 km from Ash Shāmīyah
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 10m
Erbil International AirportEBL
Arbil · 479 km from Ash Shāmīyah
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 22m
Mosul International AirportOSM
Mosul · 501 km from Ash Shāmīyah
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 24m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
On this day
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.
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Coordination pulse
3 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now