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Published 2026-08-04 · last checked 2026-08-04 · written and calculated in-house by timedatelive

Dubai holds UTC+4 all year and never changes its clocks. Tel Aviv changes twice a year on its own schedule. That split is what makes this group worth its own page: 23 of these 44 pairings have a fixed gap you can memorise and 21 do not, and which is which depends entirely on the other city.

The short answer

Dubai holds UTC+4 all year and never changes its clocks. Tel Aviv changes twice a year on its own schedule. That split is what makes this group worth its own page: 23 of these 44 pairings have a fixed gap you can memorise and 21 do not, and which is which depends entirely on the other city.

Dubai's position at UTC+4 has a practical consequence worth stating plainly: it shares at least four working hours with every European and every Southeast Asian city on this site. No other city here manages that with both groups at once, which makes Dubai the one place that can hold a single meeting spanning London and Singapore inside normal hours.

PairGap on 4 August 2026Gap on 14 January 2026Shared working hours
Amsterdam to Dubai2 hours behind3 hours behind6 hours
Auckland to Dubai8 hours ahead9 hours aheadnone
Bengaluru to Dubai1h 30m ahead1h 30m ahead6.5 hours
Bangkok to Dubai3 hours ahead3 hours ahead5 hours
Bangkok to Tel Aviv4 hours ahead5 hours ahead4 hours
Barcelona to Dubai2 hours behind3 hours behind6 hours
Berlin to Dubai2 hours behind3 hours behind6 hours
Berlin to Tel Aviv1 hour behind1 hour behind7 hours
Buenos Aires to Dubai7 hours behind7 hours behind1 hour
Cairo to Dubai1 hour behind2 hours behind7 hours
Cape Town to Dubai2 hours behind2 hours behind6 hours
Chiang Mai to Dubai3 hours ahead3 hours ahead5 hours
Dubai to Ho Chi Minh City3 hours behind3 hours behind5 hours
Dubai to Hong Kong (Central)4 hours behind4 hours behind4 hours
Dubai to Istanbul1 hour ahead1 hour ahead7 hours
Dubai to Jakarta3 hours behind3 hours behind5 hours
Dubai to Kuala Lumpur4 hours behind4 hours behind4 hours
Dubai to Lisbon3 hours ahead4 hours ahead5 hours
Dubai to London3 hours ahead4 hours ahead5 hours
Dubai to Madrid2 hours ahead3 hours ahead6 hours
Dubai to Manila4 hours behind4 hours behind4 hours
Dubai to Melbourne6 hours behind7 hours behind2 hours
Dubai to Mexico City10 hours ahead10 hours aheadnone
Dubai to Mumbai1h 30m behind1h 30m behind6.5 hours
Dubai to Nairobi1 hour ahead1 hour ahead7 hours
Dubai to New York8 hours ahead9 hours aheadnone
Dubai to Paris2 hours ahead3 hours ahead6 hours
Dubai to Rome2 hours ahead3 hours ahead6 hours
Dubai to São Paulo7 hours ahead7 hours ahead1 hour
Dubai to Seoul5 hours behind5 hours behind3 hours
Dubai to Singapore (CBD)4 hours behind4 hours behind4 hours
Dubai to Sydney6 hours behind7 hours behind2 hours
Dubai to Tel Aviv1 hour ahead2 hours ahead7 hours
Dubai to Tokyo5 hours behind5 hours behind3 hours
Dubai to Toronto8 hours ahead9 hours aheadnone
Hong Kong (Central) to Tel Aviv5 hours ahead6 hours ahead3 hours
London to Tel Aviv2 hours behind2 hours behind6 hours
Mumbai to Tel Aviv2h 30m ahead3h 30m ahead5.5 hours
New York to Tel Aviv7 hours behind7 hours behind1 hour
Paris to Tel Aviv1 hour behind1 hour behind7 hours
Singapore (CBD) to Tel Aviv5 hours ahead6 hours ahead3 hours
Sydney to Tel Aviv7 hours ahead9 hours ahead1 hour
Tel Aviv to Tokyo6 hours behind7 hours behind2 hours
Tel Aviv to Toronto7 hours ahead7 hours ahead1 hour

All 44 pairings in this group, both directions available. Gaps as at 4 August 2026 and 14 January 2026.

How this page was built. Offsets come from the IANA time zone database, read through Python's zoneinfo, for two reference instants: midday on 14 January 2026 and midday on 4 August 2026. Two instants are needed because 15 of the 34 cities move their clocks and 19 do not, so a single figure would be wrong for half the year. Gaps are the difference between the two cities' UTC offsets at the same instant. Shared working hours are the overlap of 09:00–17:00 local time in both cities on the same calendar day. Nothing here is estimated or rounded: every figure is recomputed from the tz database each time this page is rebuilt, and the date it was last checked is printed at the top. Full methodology.
The same pairs read the other way 44 pages

Each pairing has a page from each side. The table above links one direction; these link the other.

Dubai to AmsterdamDubai to AucklandDubai to BengaluruDubai to BangkokTel Aviv to BangkokDubai to BarcelonaDubai to BerlinTel Aviv to BerlinDubai to Buenos AiresDubai to CairoDubai to Cape TownDubai to Chiang MaiHo Chi Minh City to DubaiHong Kong (Central) to DubaiIstanbul to DubaiJakarta to DubaiKuala Lumpur to DubaiLisbon to DubaiLondon to DubaiMadrid to DubaiManila to DubaiMelbourne to DubaiMexico City to DubaiMumbai to DubaiNairobi to DubaiNew York to DubaiParis to DubaiRome to DubaiSão Paulo to DubaiSeoul to DubaiSingapore (CBD) to DubaiSydney to DubaiTel Aviv to DubaiTokyo to DubaiToronto to DubaiTel Aviv to Hong Kong (Central)Tel Aviv to LondonTel Aviv to MumbaiTel Aviv to New YorkTel Aviv to ParisTel Aviv to Singapore (CBD)Tel Aviv to SydneyTokyo to Tel AvivToronto to Tel Aviv

Common follow-up questions

Does Dubai observe daylight saving?

No. The UAE stays on UTC+4 for the whole year, so any gap involving Dubai changes only if the other city moves its clocks. 23 of the 44 pairings on this page never change at all.

Why is Dubai good for calls with both Europe and Asia?

At UTC+4 it sits between them. Dubai's 09:00-17:00 overlaps by at least four hours with all nine European cities and all eight Southeast and East Asian cities in this set. Every other city on the site drops to two hours or less against one of the two groups.