Haifa, 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 ) Haifa, Israel |
Current Time in other Cities of Israel
What time zone is Haifa in?
The local standard in Haifa is IDT — UTC+03:00, or 3 hours ahead of UTC. Systems that store time zones by name use Asia/Jerusalem for this part of the world.
Haifa observes daylight saving. The next change lands on Sunday, 25 October 2026, when 1 hour is added or removed and the abbreviation becomes IST.
Population: about 285,316 — 2nd largest of the 16 Israel cities indexed here.
Time gaps from Haifa right now
Live differences from Haifa, calculated from each zone's rules as they stand today rather than a fixed table.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Haifa is 7 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Haifa is 10 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Haifa is 2 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Haifa is 1 hour ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Haifa is 1 hour behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Haifa is 2 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Haifa is 5 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Haifa is 6 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Haifa is 7 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Haifa is 6 hours ahead |
When Haifa and other cities overlap
Assuming a 09:00–17:00 day at both ends, these windows (in Haifa local time) fall inside working hours for both cities.
| Paris | 10:00–17:00 in Haifa | 7 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 09:00–16:00 in Haifa | 7 hours overlap |
| London | 11:00–17:00 in Haifa | 6 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 09:00–14:30 in Haifa | 5.5 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with Los Angeles, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
Sharing Haifa's time zone
These Israel cities also use Asia/Jerusalem, so their clocks read identically to Haifa at every moment of the year.
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