Jaffa, 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 ) Jaffa, Israel |
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Time zone in Jaffa
Jaffa keeps IDT (3 hours ahead of UTC, UTC+03:00). Its database zone is Asia/Jerusalem — worth knowing if you are scheduling anything that has to survive a daylight saving change.
One date to watch: Sunday, 25 October 2026. That is when Jaffa goes back 1 hour onto IST — recurring meetings set before then will land an hour out unless the calendar handles zones properly.
Around 100,000 people live in Jaffa, making it the 16th largest of the 16 Israel cities covered here.
Jaffa compared with major world cities
How Jaffa lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Jaffa is 7 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Jaffa is 10 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Jaffa is 2 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Jaffa is 1 hour ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Jaffa is 1 hour behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Jaffa is 2 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Jaffa is 5 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Jaffa is 6 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Jaffa is 7 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Jaffa is 6 hours ahead |
Best time to call Jaffa
Overlap of a normal working day, shown in Jaffa time — outside these windows one side is off the clock.
| Paris | 10:00–17:00 in Jaffa | 7 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 09:00–16:00 in Jaffa | 7 hours overlap |
| London | 11:00–17:00 in Jaffa | 6 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 09:00–14:30 in Jaffa | 5.5 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with Los Angeles, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
Sharing Jaffa's time zone
These Israel cities also use Asia/Jerusalem, so their clocks read identically to Jaffa at every moment of the year.
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