Dubai to London Time

Dubai to London conversion chart

Every full hour of Wednesday, October 14, 2026 in Dubai, and the time in London. Pick another date in the converter and the chart follows.

Daylight saving time in Dubai and London

• Dubai: Gulf Standard Time, GST (UTC+4), with no clock changes: the United Arab Emirates has no daylight saving time.
• London: UK time, GMT (UTC+0) in winter and BST (UTC+1) in summer. Clocks go forward at 1:00 AM on the last Sunday in March and back at 2:00 AM on the last Sunday in October, the dates the UK government publishes.

Only London changes its clocks: on March 29 and October 25 in 2026, and on March 28 and October 31 in 2027. Dubai stays on GST (UTC+4) all year. From March 29, 2026, when London moves its clocks, London is 3 hours behind Dubai; London's change on October 25 returns the gap to 4 hours.

The gap follows the London calendar, because Dubai never switches. With BST in force, London is 3 hours behind Dubai. With GMT in force, London is 4 hours behind Dubai. The highlighted rows are the 303 days on GMT:

Dubai to London hour by hour

The table lists 6 AM to 11 PM on a Dubai clock with the London time for each gap, 3 hours behind, 4 hours behind. Highlighted: the 5 hours when Dubai and London are both inside 9 AM to 5 PM, with a gap of 3 hours.

Office hours and the best time to meet

With a 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM workday on both sides, for each gap of the year:

• 3 hours apart (GST with BST), 210 days of 2026: 5 hours of shared office time: 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM in Dubai is 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM in London. A one-hour call fits if it starts by 4:00 PM Dubai time (1:00 PM for London).
• 4 hours apart (GST with GMT), 155 days of 2026: 4 hours of shared office time: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM in Dubai is 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM in London. Book a one-hour meeting no later than 4:00 PM in Dubai; it then ends at 5:00 PM on the Dubai clock.

The workweek in Dubai and London

For a Monday to Friday week with 9-to-5 office hours in both cities:

The first office hour of the week belongs to Dubai: Monday at 9:00 AM there is Monday at 6:00 AM in London. The last belongs to London, whose Friday 5:00 PM is Friday 8:00 PM in Dubai. All 5 weekdays share office time, 25 hours a week with the usual gap of 3 hours.

From midnight until 3:00 AM in Dubai, London has not reached the new day yet. That is 3 hours out of every 24.

A rule of thumb: subtract 3 hours to go from Dubai to London, or 4 hours in the weeks with the other gap. 9:00 AM in Dubai is 6:00 AM in London.

Dubai and London against UTC

London runs at UTC+0 in January and UTC+1 in July 2026, and Dubai at UTC+4 in both January and July.

Asia/Dubai and Europe/London are the IANA time zone database entries behind Dubai and London here.

Comparing more than two places? Add as many cities as you need in the time zone converter, or find a slot that works for everyone with the meeting planner. For timestamps from logs or APIs, the Unix timestamp converter turns them into readable dates.

Sources

The clock change rules above come from these pages. The dates, the gap table, the hour table and the office hours are computed from them and checked against the time zone data at build time.

• timeanddate.com: time zone in Dubai
• GOV.UK: When do the clocks change?
• IANA: Time Zone Database

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Built by Tobias Kurth, designer. Updated October 14, 2026.

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