UTC+3 time now

UTC+3 is ahead of UTC by 3 hours.

UTC+3 is also written GMT+3 or UTC+03:00 in ISO 8601. It is the same time everywhere on this offset, all year: a UTC offset never moves for daylight saving time, places do.

Countries on UTC+3 all year

• Bahrain: Manama
• Belarus: Minsk, Homyel, Mahilyow, Vitsyebsk, Hrodna, Brest
• Comoros
• Djibouti: Djibouti
• Eritrea: Asmara, Keren, Massawa, Mendefera, Assab
• Ethiopia: Addis Ababa, Nazret, Dire Dawa, Bahir Dar, Harar, Dese
• Iraq: Baghdad, Mosul, Basra, Irbil, As Sulaymaniyah, Dahuk
• Jordan: Amman, Az Zarqa, Irbid, As Salt
• Kenya: Nairobi, Mombasa, Nakuru, Kisumu, Eldoret, Kitale
• Kuwait: Kuwait, Al Jahra, Hawalli
• Madagascar: Antananarivo, Antsirabe, Toamasina, Fianarantsoa, Mahajanga, Toliara
• Mayotte
• Qatar: Doha
• Russia: Moscow, St Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov, Kazan, Krasnodar
• Saudi Arabia: Riyadh, Jeddah, Ad Damman, Makkah, Medina, Al Hillah
• Somalia: Mogadishu, Hargeysa, Kismaayo, Berbera, Ceerigaabo, Jamaame
• Syria: Damascus, Aleppo, Hims, Hamah, Al Ladhiqiyah, Douma
• Tanzania: Dar es Salaam, Mwanza, Moshi, Zanzibar, Arusha, Mbeya
• Turkey: Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Bursa, Adana, Gaziantep
• Uganda: Kampala, Mbale, Jinja, Arua, Gulu, Entebbe
• Ukraine: Sevastapol, Simferopol, Kerch
• Yemen: Sanaa, Aden, Taizz, Al Hudaydah, Ibb, Al Mukalla

On UTC+3 for part of the year

These places use UTC+3 only during daylight saving time or only outside it.

• Bulgaria: Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, Burgas, Ruse, Stara Zagora (UTC+2 the rest of the year)
• Cyprus: Nicosia, Limassol (UTC+2 the rest of the year)
• Egypt: Cairo, Alexandria, El Giza, Bur Said, Luxor, El Mansura (UTC+2 the rest of the year)
• Estonia: Tallinn (UTC+2 the rest of the year)
• Finland: Helsinki, Tampere, Turku, Oulu (UTC+2 the rest of the year)
• Greece: Athens, Thessaloniki, Piraiévs, Patra, Iraklio, Larissa (UTC+2 the rest of the year)
• Israel: Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Beer Sheva, Nazareth (UTC+2 the rest of the year)
• Latvia: Riga, Daugavpils (UTC+2 the rest of the year)
• Lebanon: Beirut, Trablous, Saida (UTC+2 the rest of the year)
• Lithuania: Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda, Siauliai, Panevežys (UTC+2 the rest of the year)
• Moldova: Chisinau, Tiraspol, Balti (UTC+2 the rest of the year)
• Palestine: Gaza, Al Khalil, Nablus (UTC+2 the rest of the year)
• Romania: Bucharest, Iasi, Timisoara, Galati, Craiova, Cluj-Napoca (UTC+2 the rest of the year)
• Ukraine: Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Odessa, Lvov (UTC+2 the rest of the year)
• Åland Islands (UTC+2 the rest of the year)

For a specific city, with its daylight saving dates, use the time zone converter or the world clock.

All UTC offsets

• UTC−12
• UTC−11
• UTC−10
• UTC−9:30
• UTC−9
• UTC−8
• UTC−7
• UTC−6
• UTC−5
• UTC−4
• UTC−3:30
• UTC−3
• UTC−2
• UTC−1
• UTC
• UTC+1
• UTC+2
• UTC+3
• UTC+3:30
• UTC+4
• UTC+4:30
• UTC+5
• UTC+5:30
• UTC+5:45
• UTC+6
• UTC+6:30
• UTC+7
• UTC+8
• UTC+8:45
• UTC+9
• UTC+9:30
• UTC+10
• UTC+10:30
• UTC+11
• UTC+12
• UTC+12:45
• UTC+13
• UTC+13:45
• UTC+14

Questions people ask

Is UTC+3 the same as GMT+3?

Yes. On the clock they show the same time. GMT is the old name for the time at Greenwich; UTC is the modern atomic standard. Offsets are written the same way with either name.

What time is it in UTC+3 right now?

The live clock at the top of this page shows the current time in UTC+3, corrected by an internet time check, so it stays right even if your device clock is off.

Which countries use UTC+3?

All year: Bahrain, Belarus, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Madagascar, Mayotte….

Does UTC+3 change for daylight saving time?

No. A UTC offset never changes. What changes is which places use it: a place on daylight saving time moves to a different offset, usually one hour ahead. 15 countries use UTC+3 for only part of the year.