Current time in Doha, Qatar
The current local time in Doha is shown below. Doha observes AST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Doha does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- Asia/Qatar
- Standard abbreviation
- AST
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇶🇦 Qatar
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Doha?
Doha uses Arabian Standard Time at UTC+3 year-round with no daylight saving. The offset is shared with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Iraq, putting Qatar in close timezone alignment with the immediate Gulf neighbours but an hour behind the UAE and Oman to the east. The fixed offset and the lack of seasonal changes simplifies the scheduling of LNG cargoes and the substantial financial-services sector.
What are the working hours in Doha?
Doha's working week runs Sunday to Thursday, with Friday and Saturday as the weekend (Qatar did not move to the Monday-Friday schedule that the UAE adopted in 2022). Government offices run 07:00 to 14:00, while private sector hours typically span 08:30 to 17:30 with a one-hour lunch break. Hosting the 2022 international football tournament left significant infrastructure investment and a continuing focus on global sporting events. Ramadan working hours are shortened by federal regulation.
Where is Doha?
Doha sits on the central east coast of Qatar's small peninsula in the Persian Gulf, the capital and largest city of the country with around 660,000 residents in the municipality and a wider metropolitan area of about 2.4 million. The geography is dominated by the artificial palm-frond and crescent island developments along the waterfront, with a striking modern skyline that has emerged through rapid construction since the early 2000s, largely funded by natural gas revenues.