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Sāmarrā’, Irak
02:04:50 PMWednesday, April 29, 2026 · Asia/Baghdad
Güncel yerel saat
02:04:50 PM
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
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Sāmarrā’ right now
En yakın havalimanı
BGW
Baghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air Base · 109 km
İndekslenen havalimanları
4
Curated airport references available for Irak
Snapshot at render time: 02:04:50 PM on Wednesday, April 29, 2026 in Sāmarrā’ (UTC+03:00, AST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
Current weather
28°C, Mostly clear
Feels like 28°C · Humidity 36% · Wind 12 km/h
Sunrise and sunset
05:16 AM to 06:46 PM
Day length 13h 30m · Solar noon 12:01 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Sāmarrā’ local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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7 days to go
Mother's Day (US) 2026
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11 days to go
Gemini 3 Launch (rumored at Google I/O)
release-tech12 Mayıs 2026 Salı
13 days to go
48th ASEAN Summit — Cebu
political15 Mayıs 2026 Cuma
16 days to go
Population
158.5K
Coordinates
34.20, 43.89
Timezone
Asia/Baghdad
İndekslenen havalimanları
4
Capital
Baghdad
Languages
Arabic, Aramaic
Currency
IQD (ع.د)
Country area
438,317 km²
Sāmarrā’ (rank #28 by population in this dataset) sits at Asia/Baghdad (AST, UTC+03:00) with roughly 158.5K residents, anchoring local-time questions for Irak.
Sāmarrā’ sits at 34.20°N, 43.89°E; that's the subtropics (Northern Hemisphere, ~3796 km from the equator) and the daylight pattern reflects warmer-half daylight that stretches noticeably in summer.
Today the sun rises around 05:16 AM and sets around 06:46 PM in Sāmarrā’ — about 13h 30m of daylight. Irak stays on standard time here, so UTC+03:00 is stable through the year.
Balad (31 km from Sāmarrā’) 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 Sāmarrā’.
On this page Sāmarrā’ stands in for the local-time signal in this part of Irak; the sections below pull live data rather than templated copy.
Reading Sāmarrā’ against the global hubs: Dubai (~1,484 km), London (~3,991 km), Singapore (~7,193 km) are the close ones, with Sydney (~13,474 km) sitting on the opposite side of the planet — a good gut check when judging logistics windows.
Sāmarrā’ sits inside Irak — the Western Asia subregion, capital Baghdad, languages Arabic, Aramaic, Sorani, currency IQD (ع.د).
The closest mapped neighbors of Sāmarrā’ are Balad (31 km), Tikrīt (50 km), Ad Dujayl (50 km), Khāliş (74 km), so commuter, logistics and same-day-trip planning will usually pull from this cluster.
Closest curated airport references from Sāmarrā’: BGW Baghdad (109 km), EBL Arbil (227 km), OSM Mosul (244 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 · 109 km from Sāmarrā’
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 53m
Erbil International AirportEBL
Arbil · 227 km from Sāmarrā’
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 2m
Mosul International AirportOSM
Mosul · 244 km from Sāmarrā’
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 4m
Basra International AirportBSR
Basra · 539 km from Sāmarrā’
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 26m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
On this day
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.
2013: A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people.
2013: National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing all seven people on board.
Coordination pulse
2 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 12:04 PM | -2h | Good to call now |
| New York | 07:04 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 04:04 AM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 03:04 PM | +1h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 07:04 PM | +5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 08:04 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 09:04 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 08:04 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
Sāmarrā’, Asia/Baghdad saat dilimindedir (AST), UTC farkı +03:00'dir.
Sāmarrā’ şu anda yaz saati uygulaması yapmamaktadır.
Sāmarrā’ için güncel UTC farkı UTC+03:00'dir.
Sāmarrā’ sits at 34.20°N, 43.89°E in Irak, with about 158.5K residents (rank #28 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Sāmarrā’ is Dubai, about 1,484 km away as the crow flies.
Balad is the closest indexed city, roughly 31 km from Sāmarrā’.
Baghdad International Airport / New Al Muthana Air Base (BGW) is the closest curated airport reference, about 109 km from Sāmarrā’.
