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🇦🇪 Dubai (UTC+4) · 🇺🇸 Chicago (UTC−5) · 9 hours difference — Dubai is ahead
Best Time to Meet
No standard business-hours overlap. Extended window: 16:00–20:00 in DubaiAt least one city will be in early morning or evening hours.
24-Hour Schedule
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| 🇦🇪 Dubai | 04:00 | 05:00 | 06:00 | 07:00 | 08:00 | 09:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 | 00:00 | 01:00 | 02:00 | 03:00 |
| 🇺🇸 Chicago | 19:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 | 00:00 | 01:00 | 02:00 | 03:00 | 04:00 | 05:00 | 06:00 | 07:00 | 08:00 | 09:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 |
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Open Meeting Planner →Dubai is a trade and logistics city and Chicago a finance and derivatives city; the two economies buy from each other rather than compete. Put simply, when it is 09:00 in Chicago it is already 9 hours later in Dubai.
Both cities work Monday to Friday, Dubai typically 08:30–17:30 and Chicago 08:30–17:30 local time. On the Dubai side the dates that break a schedule are Eid al-Fitr (end of Ramadan, about 11 days earlier each year) and Eid al-Adha (roughly 70 days after Eid al-Fitr); on the Chicago side, Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday of November, with the Friday) and Independence Day (4 July).
The office days never overlap; the workable slots are Chicago's early morning against Dubai's evening. Rotate the inconvenience rather than fixing it on one side. Only Chicago changes its clocks, so the gap shifts by an hour twice a year while Dubai stays put.
Dubai is 9 hours ahead of Chicago. The gap changes by an hour around the clock changes.
There is no hour when both offices are open. The closest is early morning in Chicago against the end of the day in Dubai; alternate which side takes the awkward slot.
Alternate. A standing call that is always 07:00 for Chicago or always 19:00 for Dubai is resented within a month; rotating it keeps both sides in the room.
For the working day, yes — the gap is not wide enough to push office hours across midnight.
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