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United Arab Emirates

7 cities in the atlas · 7 airports with scheduled flights

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Photo: Fabio Achilli from Milano, Italy · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Abu Dhabi
Currency: AED; United Arab Emirates Dirham
Local time: Gulf Standard TimeUTC+04:00
Calling code: +971
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and G

Facts

United Arab Emirates in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Abu Dhabi
Currency: United Arab Emirates Dirham AEDToday's indicative rate: AED 1 ≈ USD 0.272Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: ArabicSpoken: Arabic, Persian, English, Hindi and Urdu
Time zones: Gulf Standard TimeUTC+04:00
Calling code: +971
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and G220 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 999police998ambulance997civil defence996coast guardOfficial source: UAE Government portal (u.ae). Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 11,513,149 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 82,880 km²
Internet domain: .ae
Land borders: Oman Saudi Arabia

When to go

Climate across United Arab Emirates

In November to March, more than half of the 7 cities with figures in United Arab Emirates have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
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The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Abu Dhabi	22°	23°	26°	30°	35°	36°	38°	39°	37°	34°	29°	25°
Dubai	23°	24°	27°	31°	35°	37°	39°	39°	37°	34°	29°	25°
Sharjah	23°	25°	28°	32°	37°	39°	40°	40°	38°	35°	30°	25°
Al Ain	24°	27°	32°	37°	42°	44°	45°	44°	42°	37°	31°	26°
Ajman	23°	25°	28°	32°	37°	39°	40°	40°	38°	35°	30°	25°
Ras al-Khaimah	22°	23°	26°	31°	35°	37°	37°	36°	35°	33°	28°	24°
Fujairah	24°	26°	30°	35°	40°	41°	40°	39°	38°	35°	30°	26°
Cities good for going, of 7	7	7	6	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	7

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where United Arab Emirates is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

Cities

Cities in United Arab Emirates

All 7 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

Airports

Airports in United Arab Emirates

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Large airports

Photographs

United Arab Emirates in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Dubai
Photo: Tim Reckmann from Hamm, Deutschland · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Abu Dhabi
Photo: Валерий Дед · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Guides

Our guides in United Arab Emirates

Visas and entry

Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.

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Plan it

Plan a trip to United Arab Emirates

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

GeoNames — Place data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Unicode CLDR 48.2.2 (cldr-json) — Unicode CLDR data, © Unicode, Inc., Unicode License v3.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.