Gulf Time · GST · UTC+4
Claude Code Peak Hours in Gulf Time (GST)
When Claude Code is busiest in Gulf Time (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Tbilisi), and when to work so your limits go further. The heatmap below is already converted to GST (UTC+4) and updates live.
Claude Code heatmap in Gulf Time
Messages you send to Claude — the closest measure of load.
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Top countries · 10 countries
- 🇹🇷 Türkiye631
- 🇸🇬 Singapore439
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands158
- 🇷🇺 Russia49
- 🇵🇱 Poland16
- 🇱🇹 Lithuania10
- 🇪🇪 Estonia8
- 🇵🇹 Portugal8
- 🇮🇪 Ireland4
- 🇭🇰 Hong Kong SAR China1
No country data yet — the map fills in as new check-ins arrive.
Activity by country · All time
Country is detected by the network from the connection; the IP address itself is not stored.
Peak and quiet hours in Gulf Time
- Weekday peak12 AM–3 AM
- Quietest hours6 AM–9 AM
- Busiest dayThursday
- Quietest daySunday
- Weekend share8%
Based on community data (1,324 messages), 3-hour windows, in Gulf Time.
Incidents per Anthropic’s status page
- Most incidents5 PM–8 PM
- Fewest incidents6 AM–9 AM
- Most incident-prone dayFriday
171 incident hours with an open incident for Claude, the API or Claude Code, in Gulf Time. Source: status.claude.com, synced hourly.
Anthropic’s stated peak window
4 PM–10 PM
Weekdays, 5–11 AM Pacific, shown in Gulf Time. In March 2026 Anthropic said 5-hour limits drain faster during these hours; on May 6, 2026 that reduction was removed for Claude Code on Pro and Max, but it remains the busiest part of the day.
Planning your day
The global weekday peak is 4 PM–10 PM in Gulf Time. In Gulf Time that window only brushes the edge of your working day. It is when North American mornings overlap with the European afternoon, so slow responses and overloaded errors are most likely then.
- Long agent runs (refactors, migrations, test generation): start them before 4 PM or after 10 PM.
- During the peak, favour short loops — reviews, small edits, questions about code — where a little latency hurts less.
- Weekends are noticeably calmer than weekdays in every time zone.
- If Claude is slow anyway, check the current load and the official status page.
Times account for the current daylight-saving state and are recalculated every time the site rebuilds.
Other time zones
- Pacific TimeUTC−7
- Central TimeUTC−5
- Eastern TimeUTC−4
- Brasília TimeUTC−3
- British TimeUTC+1
- Central European TimeUTC+2
- Eastern European TimeUTC+3
- Moscow TimeUTC+3
- Yekaterinburg TimeUTC+5
- Kazakhstan TimeUTC+5
- India TimeUTC+5:30
- Novosibirsk TimeUTC+7
- Singapore TimeUTC+8
- China TimeUTC+8
- Japan TimeUTC+9
- Korea TimeUTC+9
- Australian Eastern TimeUTC+11