Current time in the Asia/Beirut time zone

Asia/Beirut is an IANA time zone used in Lebanon. It is on standard time now, UTC+2 (EET), until Sunday, March 28, 2027.

Asia/Beirut at a glance

Rules of the Asia/Beirut time zone

Asia/Beirut switches between two offsets: UTC+2 (EET) for standard time and UTC+3 (EEST) for daylight saving time. Below are the last changes and the ones scheduled next.

Recent and upcoming changes in Asia/Beirut

Where Asia/Beirut is used

Asia/Beirut is used in Lebanon. These are the largest cities in our list that follow it.

• Beirut

Asia/Beirut compared with other time zones

Differences change during the year when one side moves to or from daylight saving time, so the table shows January and July separately.

Other zones on UTC+2 right now

These IANA zones show the same time as Asia/Beirut today. Their clock-change rules may differ.

• Africa/Blantyre
• Africa/Bujumbura
• Africa/Cairo
• Africa/Gaborone
• Africa/Harare
• Africa/Johannesburg
• Africa/Juba
• Africa/Khartoum
• Africa/Kigali
• Africa/Lubumbashi
• Africa/Lusaka
• Africa/Maputo

Using Asia/Beirut in software

Use the zone name Asia/Beirut rather than an abbreviation or a fixed offset. Abbreviations can mean several zones, and offsets ignore future clock changes.

Show the current time in Asia/Beirut:

// JavaScript
new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-GB', { timeZone: 'Asia/Beirut', timeStyle: 'long' }).format(new Date());
# Python
from datetime import datetime
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
datetime.now(ZoneInfo('Asia/Beirut'))
// PHP
(new DateTime('now', new DateTimeZone('Asia/Beirut')))->format('c');
# Shell
TZ=Asia/Beirut date

Plan around the time in Asia/Beirut

• Convert a time to or from Asia/Beirut: pick a date and time and see it in every city on your list.
• Add Beirut to your world clock to keep it next to your own time.
• Find a meeting time that falls inside office hours in Asia/Beirut and the other cities you work with.
• Open a full-screen clock for your own time zone.

Frequently asked questions

Time zone rules: IANA tz database, version 2026e. Place names and coordinates: GeoNames. Sunrise and sunset are calculated from the coordinates and can differ by a minute or two from local almanacs.