Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Current time in Saudi Arabia
Time zone: +03 (UTC/GMT +03:00) — Asia/Riyadh
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -5 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +3 ) Mecca, Saudi Arabia |
What time zone is Mecca in?
The local standard in Mecca is +03 — UTC+03:00, or 3 hours ahead of UTC. Systems that store time zones by name use Asia/Riyadh for this part of the world.
Daylight saving is not observed here, so UTC+03:00 is year-round. Any seasonal drift you notice against another city comes from that city, not from Mecca.
Population: about 1,578,722 — 1st largest of the 23 Saudi Arabia cities indexed here.
Mecca compared with major world cities
Read this as: relative to each city below, Mecca is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Mecca is 7 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Mecca is 10 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Mecca is 2 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Mecca is 1 hour ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Mecca is 1 hour behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Mecca is 2 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Mecca is 5 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Mecca is 6 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Mecca is 7 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Mecca is 6 hours ahead |
Working hours that match Mecca
Where the two working days actually meet, expressed in Mecca local time.
| Paris | 10:00–17:00 in Mecca | 7 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 09:00–16:00 in Mecca | 7 hours overlap |
| London | 11:00–17:00 in Mecca | 6 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 09:00–14:30 in Mecca | 5.5 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with Los Angeles, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
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