Ashkelon, Israel
Current time in Israel
Time zone: IDT (UTC/GMT +03:00) — Asia/Jerusalem
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -5 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +3 ) Ashkelon, Israel |
Current Time in other Cities of Israel
What time zone is Ashkelon in?
Local time here is IDT, which sits 3 hours ahead of UTC, written UTC+03:00. The canonical zone name is Asia/Jerusalem, and that is what to pick from a time zone dropdown.
One date to watch: Sunday, 25 October 2026. That is when Ashkelon goes back 1 hour onto IST — recurring meetings set before then will land an hour out unless the calendar handles zones properly.
Ashkelon has roughly 144,073 residents and ranks 12th by population among the Israel cities on this site.
Ashkelon compared with major world cities
Read this as: relative to each city below, Ashkelon is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Ashkelon is 7 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Ashkelon is 10 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Ashkelon is 2 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Ashkelon is 1 hour ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Ashkelon is 1 hour behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Ashkelon is 2 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Ashkelon is 5 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Ashkelon is 6 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Ashkelon is 7 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Ashkelon is 6 hours ahead |
Best time to call Ashkelon
Usable call slots from Ashkelon, taking business hours as 09:00 to 17:00 in both places.
| Paris | 10:00–17:00 in Ashkelon | 7 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 09:00–16:00 in Ashkelon | 7 hours overlap |
| London | 11:00–17:00 in Ashkelon | 6 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 09:00–14:30 in Ashkelon | 5.5 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with Los Angeles, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
Same local time as Ashkelon
These Israel cities also use Asia/Jerusalem, so their clocks read identically to Ashkelon at every moment of the year.
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