Current time in Ha'il, Saudi Arabia right now
It is 11:08 am in Ha'il, Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 right now, on Friday, November 6, 2026. The city keeps Asia/Riyadh, which is UTC+3 at UTC+3, so Ha'il is 3 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 8:08 am. The sun rose in Ha'il at 6:27 am and sets at 5:26 pm, which is 10 hours 59 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Ha'il right now?
The time in Ha'il, Saudi Arabia is 11:08 am, 11:08 on a 24 hour clock, on Friday November 6, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Asia/Riyadh rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Ha'il sits at 27.52 degrees north and 41.69 degrees east, just outside the tropics and 3,060 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 45.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 3.3 degrees west of that line. Those 3.3 degrees are worth 13 minutes 14 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 11:57 am rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Ha'il time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Ha'il, Saudi Arabia is Asia/Riyadh. Right now it is running at UTC+3 and the abbreviation in force is UTC+3. Ha'il does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC+3 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving Ha'il ever needs a seasonal footnote.
Daylight hours in Ha'il today
The sun rose in Ha'il at 6:27 am and sets at 5:26 pm, which is 10 hours 59 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Ha'il, is at 11:57 am, which is 3 minutes before clock noon. The sun's declination today is -16.03 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 46.5 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Ha'il |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 6:27 am |
| Sunset | 5:26 pm |
| Solar noon | 11:57 am |
| Day length | 10 hours 59 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 4:53 pm to 5:41 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 5:50 pm |
The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Ha'il, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Ha'il is on the map
The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.
An interactive map of Ha'il. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Ha'il on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Ha'il and major cities
Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Ha'il.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Ha'il |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 12:08 am | -11 | 11 hours behind of Ha'il |
| Chicago, Illinois | 2:08 am | -9 | 9 hours behind of Ha'il |
| New York, New York | 3:08 am | -8 | 8 hours behind of Ha'il |
| Toronto, Canada | 3:08 am | -8 | 8 hours behind of Ha'il |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 5:08 am | -6 | 6 hours behind of Ha'il |
| London, United Kingdom | 8:08 am | -3 | 3 hours behind of Ha'il |
| Paris, France | 9:08 am | -2 | 2 hours behind of Ha'il |
| Berlin, Germany | 9:08 am | -2 | 2 hours behind of Ha'il |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 10:08 am | -1 | 1 hour behind of Ha'il |
| Moscow, Russia | 11:08 am | 0 | same time as Ha'il |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 12:08 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Ha'il |
| Delhi, India | 1:38 pm | +2:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes ahead of Ha'il |
| Singapore, Singapore | 4:08 pm | +5 | 5 hours ahead of Ha'il |
| Hong Kong, China | 4:08 pm | +5 | 5 hours ahead of Ha'il |
| Tokyo, Japan | 5:08 pm | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Ha'il |
| Sydney, Australia | 7:08 pm | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Ha'il |
Best time to call Ha'il
Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Ha'il | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -8 | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 10:00 am |
| Los Angeles | -11 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| London | -3 | 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 3:00 pm |
| Delhi | +2:30 | 9:00 am to 3:30 pm | 11:30 am to 6:00 pm |
| Sydney | +8 | 9:00 am to 10:00 am | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
Other cities in Saudi Arabia
We cover 30 cities in Saudi Arabia. These are the ones nearest to Ha'il, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buraydah | Al-Qassim Region | 11:08 am | UTC+3 |
| Unaizah | Al-Qassim Region | 11:08 am | UTC+3 |
| Sakakah | Al Jawf Region | 11:08 am | UTC+3 |
| Az Zulfi | Riyadh Region | 11:08 am | UTC+3 |
| Arar | Northern Borders Region | 11:08 am | UTC+3 |
| Sultanah | Medina Region | 11:08 am | UTC+3 |
| Madinah | Medina Region | 11:08 am | UTC+3 |
| Hafar Al-Batin | Eastern Province | 11:08 am | UTC+3 |
| Tabuk | Tabuk Region | 11:08 am | UTC+3 |
| Yanbu | Medina Region | 11:08 am | UTC+3 |
| Riyadh | Riyadh | 11:08 am | UTC+3 |
| Qurayyat | Al Jawf Region | 11:08 am | UTC+3 |
| Al Kharj | Riyadh Region | 11:08 am | UTC+3 |
| Makkah | Mecca Region | 11:08 am | UTC+3 |
| Ta'if | Mecca Region | 11:08 am | UTC+3 |
| Jeddah | Mecca | 11:08 am | UTC+3 |
Cities on Asia/Riyadh time
30 of our cities keep Asia/Riyadh, so every one of them reads 11:08 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Ha'il. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Ha'il |
|---|---|---|
| Buraydah, Saudi Arabia | 11:08 am | 263 km |
| Unaizah, Saudi Arabia | 11:08 am | 278 km |
| Sakakah, Saudi Arabia | 11:08 am | 308 km |
| Az Zulfi, Saudi Arabia | 11:08 am | 338 km |
| Arar, Saudi Arabia | 11:08 am | 389 km |
| Sultanah, Saudi Arabia | 11:08 am | 397 km |
| Madinah, Saudi Arabia | 11:08 am | 398 km |
| Hafar Al-Batin, Saudi Arabia | 11:08 am | 432 km |
| Tabuk, Saudi Arabia | 11:08 am | 512 km |
| Yanbu, Saudi Arabia | 11:08 am | 527 km |
| Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | 11:08 am | 587 km |
| Qurayyat, Saudi Arabia | 11:08 am | 597 km |
| Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia | 11:08 am | 677 km |
| Makkah, Saudi Arabia | 11:08 am | 704 km |
| Ta'if, Saudi Arabia | 11:08 am | 707 km |
| Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | 11:08 am | 717 km |
Moon phase over Ha'il tonight
The moon is a waning crescent tonight, 26.7 days into its cycle and about 9% lit. The next full moon falls on November 24, 2026 at 5:53 pm Riyadh time, and the next new moon on November 9, 2026 at 10:01 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Ha'il clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Ha'il
There is no clock change scheduled in Asia/Riyadh within the next 400 days, so Ha'il stays at UTC+3 for the whole of that stretch.
That makes Ha'il an easy city to schedule against: a meeting fixed at a given hour here holds its relationship to UTC all year, and only the other end of the call can move.
How far Ha'il is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Ha'il is Buraydah, Saudi Arabia at 263 km, and the furthest is Tauranga, New Zealand at 15,649 km, which is 78% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buraydah, Saudi Arabia | 263 | 163 | south east | 11:08 am |
| Unaizah, Saudi Arabia | 278 | 173 | south east | 11:08 am |
| Sakakah, Saudi Arabia | 308 | 192 | north west | 11:08 am |
| Az Zulfi, Saudi Arabia | 338 | 210 | south east | 11:08 am |
| Arar, Saudi Arabia | 389 | 242 | north | 11:08 am |
| Sultanah, Saudi Arabia | 397 | 247 | south west | 11:08 am |
| Madinah, Saudi Arabia | 398 | 247 | south west | 11:08 am |
| Hafar Al-Batin, Saudi Arabia | 432 | 269 | east | 11:08 am |
| Tabuk, Saudi Arabia | 512 | 318 | west | 11:08 am |
| Yanbu, Saudi Arabia | 527 | 327 | south west | 11:08 am |
The antipode of Ha'il
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Ha'il, Saudi Arabia and you come out at 27.52 degrees south, 138.31 degrees west. That point is in the South Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Tauranga, New Zealand, 4,366 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 9:08 pm on Friday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 27.52 degrees north becomes 27.52 degrees south, and 41.69 degrees east becomes 138.31 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Ha'il is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-9, roughly twelve hours from Ha'il, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Ha'il
Today the sun rises in Ha'il at 6:27 am and sets at 5:26 pm, giving 10 hours 59 minutes of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Ha'il.
Sun and moon in Ha'il today
The sun is up in Ha'il for 10 hours 59 minutes today, from 6:27 am to 5:26 pm. The moon rises in Ha'il at 3:38 am and sets at 3:31 pm. The next phase is the new moon on November 9, 2026. It is 9% lit at the moment, a waning crescent, thinning by about 6.0 percentage points a day.
| Sun | Time in Ha'il |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:07 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:35 am |
| Civil dawn | 6:03 am |
| Sunrise | 6:27 am |
| Solar noon | 11:57 am |
| Sunset | 5:26 pm |
| Civil dusk | 5:50 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 6:18 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 6:46 pm |
Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.
| Light band | Time in Ha'il | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 6:03 am to 6:12 am | 0h 09m |
| Morning golden hour | 6:12 am to 7:00 am | 0h 48m |
| Evening golden hour | 4:53 pm to 5:41 pm | 0h 48m |
| Evening blue hour | 5:41 pm to 5:50 pm | 0h 09m |
Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.
| Moon | Reading in Ha'il |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 3:38 am |
| Moonset | 3:31 pm |
| Phase | waning crescent, waning |
| Illumination | 9% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 26.7 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 388,300 km |
Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.
Meeting planner: Ha'il and four other places
Every hour of Friday, November 6, 2026 in Ha'il, Saudi Arabia, read across 4 other places. Columns are Ha'il local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
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| Ha'il local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ha'ilUTC+3 UTC+3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPST UTC-8 | 13-1 | 14-1 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| New YorkEST UTC-5 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| LondonGMT UTC+0 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 2:30 | 3:30 | 4:30 | 5:30 | 6:30 | 7:30 | 8:30 | 9:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 22:30 | 23:30 | 0:30+1 | 1:30+1 |
No hour on Friday, November 6, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Los Angeles and Delhi are 13 hours 30 minutes apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 12:00 pm in Ha'il it is working hours in Ha'il, London and Delhi, but outside them in Los Angeles and New York. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Ha'il
Seven days from November 6, 2026, computed for Ha'il, Saudi Arabia at 27.52 degrees north, 41.69 degrees east, on the clock of Asia/Riyadh. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday November 6 | 5:07 am | 6:27 am | 11:57 am | 3:04 pm | 5:26 pm | 6:41 pm |
| Saturday November 7 | 5:08 am | 6:28 am | 11:57 am | 3:03 pm | 5:26 pm | 6:41 pm |
| Sunday November 8 | 5:09 am | 6:29 am | 11:57 am | 3:03 pm | 5:25 pm | 6:40 pm |
| Monday November 9 | 5:09 am | 6:29 am | 11:57 am | 3:03 pm | 5:24 pm | 6:40 pm |
| Tuesday November 10 | 5:10 am | 6:30 am | 11:57 am | 3:02 pm | 5:24 pm | 6:39 pm |
| Wednesday November 11 | 5:11 am | 6:31 am | 11:57 am | 3:02 pm | 5:23 pm | 6:39 pm |
| Thursday November 12 | 5:11 am | 6:32 am | 11:57 am | 3:01 pm | 5:23 pm | 6:39 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Ha'il, Saudi Arabia, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.
Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.
Qibla direction from Ha'il
From Ha'il, Saudi Arabia the qibla is 195.9 degrees on a true compass, which is south-southwest, or 15.9 degrees east of due south. The Kaaba is 704 km away, 437 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Ha'il, Saudi Arabia to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.
The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Ha'il, Saudi Arabia before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.
Put a Ha'il clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Ha'il, Saudi Arabia, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Asia/Riyadh from the time zone database, so it stays right when Ha'il changes its clocks, and it shows UTC+3 to every visitor wherever they are reading from. It is a plain iframe: no account, no script to install, nothing to pay.
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Ha'il time now: common questions
- What time is it in Ha'il, Saudi Arabia right now?
- 11:08 am on Friday November 6, 2026. Ha'il runs on UTC+3, UTC+3.
- What time zone is Ha'il in?
- Asia/Riyadh, currently UTC+3 at UTC+3. 30 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Ha'il?
- UTC+3 at this instant. It is UTC+3 all year round, with no seasonal change.
- Does Ha'il observe daylight saving time?
- No. Ha'il stays on UTC+3 for the whole year.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Ha'il of New York?
- Ha'il is 8 hours ahead of New York, where it is 3:08 am right now.
- What time does the sun set in Ha'il today?
- 5:26 pm, after a sunrise at 6:27 am and 10 hours 59 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Ha'il?
- 27.52 degrees south, 138.31 degrees west, in the South Pacific Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Ha'il from London?
- Between 12:00 pm and 6:00 pm in Ha'il, which is 9:00 am to 3:00 pm in London.
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