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GMT+4 Time Zone Countries list - UTC+4 Time Now

UTC+4 is four hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time: 15:00 UTC is 19:00 here. It runs from the Caucasus through the Gulf to the western Indian Ocean, and none of the countries on it change their clocks.

UTC+4

Friday, 4 September 2026

UTC+4 · Asia/Dubai

Shown for Asia/Dubai — one of the zones with this offset

Cities in UTC+4

Countries in UTC+4

Neighbouring offsets

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UTC+4 time now

Add four hours to UTC. Because every member of this offset holds it permanently, the local clock here is one of the few that can be worked out from UTC with no seasonal caveat at all.

Countries and cities on UTC+4

Four distinct regions share this offset, with the Gulf providing most of its commercial weight. United Arab Emirates — Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. Oman — Muscat. Azerbaijan — Baku. Georgia — Tbilisi.

Armenia — Yerevan. Russia — Samara, Izhevsk, Ulyanovsk and Saratov, in the Samara time zone one hour ahead of Moscow. Mauritius — Port Louis. Seychelles — Victoria. Réunion — Saint-Denis, the French overseas department.

Daylight saving: none of it

This is the notable feature of UTC+4 and the reason it is pleasant to work with. Not one country on the offset observes daylight saving today. Several used to. Azerbaijan and Georgia both ran summer time in the past and abandoned it. Armenia did the same. The Gulf states never adopted it. Mauritius tried it for a single season and dropped it. The result is an offset where the clock reading is stable across the whole year, everywhere on it.

That does not mean your gaps are stable. Dubai is four hours ahead of London in winter and three in summer — London moves, Dubai does not. The same applies to Tbilisi against Berlin, or Port Louis against Paris. The variation always comes from the European end.

Every country on this offset has the same daylight saving policy, which is: no. It is the quietest hour band on the map and it got that way by attrition.

Coordinating with UTC+4

The Gulf working week is the detail that matters more than the clock here. Business hours and weekend days differ across the region, and getting the offset right does not help if you have booked a call on someone's weekend.

Dubai to London: four hours ahead in winter, three in summer. Overlap is the London morning. Dubai to Singapore (UTC+8): four hours behind, fixed all year, since neither changes. Tbilisi to Moscow (UTC+3): one hour ahead, fixed, since neither changes.

Port Louis to Johannesburg (UTC+2): two hours ahead, fixed. Three of those four gaps never move at all — a rarity worth appreciating if you have spent time scheduling across the Atlantic.

Questions and answers

UTC+3
One hour behind. Moscow, Istanbul, Riyadh, Baghdad and Nairobi.
UTC+3:30
Thirty minutes behind. Iran.
UTC+4:30
Thirty minutes ahead. Afghanistan.
UTC+5
One hour ahead. Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan's western regions and Yekaterinburg.
Is Dubai always four hours ahead of UTC?
Yes. Gulf Standard Time is fixed at UTC+4 with no seasonal change, so the offset from UTC never varies.
Why is Samara an hour ahead of Moscow?
Russia spans many zones, and Samara sits in the one immediately east of Moscow's. Both are fixed, so the one-hour gap between them is constant.
Do the Indian Ocean islands on this offset share time with the mainland?
Mauritius, the Seychelles and Réunion all keep UTC+4, the same clock as Dubai and Muscat, despite lying far to the south. None of them observes daylight saving.
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