Ramadan 2015 Working Hours

RAMADAN 1436 UPDATE: Kuwait announces Thursday, 18/06/2015 as First day of Ramadan 1436. (CLICK HERE for Source)

RAMADAN 1436 UPDATE: Kuwait's Crescent Sighting Authority is meeting on TUESDAY (16/06/2015) to confirm whether Wednesday or Thursday will be 1st of Ramadan based on the sighting of the Moon.

Ramadan 1436 which coincides with June-July 2015 leads to some changes in Kuwait. The working hours of employees for government sector reduces from 35 hours a week to 25 hours a week. On the other hand, for private firms, it is reduced from 48 hours to 36 hours a week. Basically, 2 hours is removed from each day. This is the privilege that the government of Kuwait provides for the people during the month of Ramadan. The official timings for the government sectors are provided by the Assistant Undersecretary for Diwan Affairs & Manpower at the Civil Service Commission (CSC) which are as follows(Based on Cirular no 1-2015 dated 03/06/2015):

The following government bodies are functioning from 9:30 am to 2:00 pm.

• Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
• Public Authority for Youth and Sports.
• Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs.
• Environment Public Authority.
• Ministry of Justice
• Public Authority for Industry.
• Ministry of Public Works.
• Public Authority of Minor Affairs.
• Ministry of Higher Education.
• Kuwait General Administration of Customs.
• Ministry of Communications.
• Kuwait Fire Service Directorate.
• Ministry of Education.
• Credit and Savings Bank.
• Ministry of Information.
• Zakat House.
• Public Authority for Housing Welfare.
• Kuwait Municipality.
• Kuwait Ports Authority.
• Civil Service Commission.
• Public Authority for Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resources.
• National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters.

Rest of the government bodies will work from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm.

Words of caution, the work pace in the month of Ramadan in Kuwait slow down. Also, for the above mentioned times, people will be taking break during the Noon prayers (Zuhr) which is around 11:50 am. So one will not find people sitting at the tables between 11:50 am till around 12:30 pm. So one should keep this in mind as one's patience will be tested.

Photo Courtesy to Civil Service Commission

CLICK HERE for previous post of Ramadan 2014 Working hours - Timings in Kuwait.

CLICK HERE for precious post of Ramadan 1435-2014.

Kuwait Bank timings for Ramadan have been declared. The working hours for the employees are 9:30 am to 2 pm. While Customer / Client services will be 10 am to 1 pm. This was issued by the Kuwait Banking Association which was received from Central Bank of Kuwait. (CLICK HERE for the article in Indians in Kuwait & CLICK HERE for the article in Kuwait Times)

The Scientific Center of Kuwait has announced its Ramadan Timings (DAILY).

• Before Iftar - 4 pm to 6 pm.
• After Iftar - 9 pm - 12 midnight.

Ticket Prices: 

• Kuwait Aquarium KD 2.500
• Discovery Place KD 1.500
• IMAX (2D) KD 2.500
• IMAX (3D) KD 3.000

The Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) working hours (South Surra):

• Morning 10 am till 2:30 pm. (For counters and Card Delivery)
• Afternoon 2:30 pm till 6 pm. (For Card Delivery only)

20 Seven Fitness Studio

• Morning 4 pm - 6:30 pm
• Afternoon 8:30 pm - 11 pm

360 Mall

• Retail 11 am - 3 pm and 8:30 pm - 1 am
• Restaurants & Cafe 5 pm - 2 am
• Entertainment 8:30 pm - 1:30 am
• Cinemas 9 pm - 3 am (Last 10 days - CLOSED)
• Fitness First - Weekdays 10 am - 1 am ; Weekends 12 pm - 1 am
• Geant Hypermarket 10 am to 1 am (Last 2 days : 10 am - 2 am)
• International Mills : 11 am - 4:30 pm and 8 pm - 1 am

Blink Store Hawally

• Saturday - Thursday 10 am - 4 pm ; 8 pm - 12:30 am
• Friday - 8 pm - 12:30 am

Blue Delivery

• Ordering Hours : 1 pm - 6 pm
• Delivery Hours : 11 am - 6 pm ; 9 pm - 1 am

Brown Diamond

• Commercial Towers - Zahra Co-op - Andalus Co-op : 1 pm - 12 midnight
• Yamouk Co-op - Saveco : 2 pm - 11 pm

Bumper2Bumper Alfa Station Centers

• Saturday - Thursday 9:30 am - 1 pm
• Saturday - Thursday 8:30 pm - 11:30 pm

Bumper2Bumper Centers 

• Saturday to Wednesday 9:30 am - 1 pm
• Saturday to Wednesday 8:30 pm - 11:30 pm
• Thursday 9:30 am to 3 pm

Touristic Enterprises Co (TEC)

• Entertainment City : All Week Long 8:30 pm - 1:30 am
• Touristic Park & Fountain Park : 8 pm - 1 am
• Ice Skating Rink 10:30 am - 4 pm and 8:30 pm - 12 midnight

Eureka Showroom

• Saturday to Thursday - 10 am - 4:30 pm and 8:30 pm - 1 am
• Friday - 1 pm - 4:30 pm and 8:30 pm - 1 am
• Al Shuwaikh and Al Fahaheel Branch Evening Time 8:30 pm to 12:30 am

Avenues Mall

• IKEA Exhibit 10:30 am - 3:30 and 8 pm - 1 am & Restaurants 6:30 pm - 12 midnight
• International Mill : 10 am - 5:30 pm and 7:30 pm - 1:30 am
• Kidzania : 6 pm till 12 Midnight

International Mill

• Salhiya : 10:30 am - 3 pm and 8:30 pm - 12:30 am
• Salmiya : 9 am - 5:30 pm and 8 pm - 12:30 am
• Avenues : 10 am - 5:30 pm and 7:30 pm - 1:30 am
• 360 Mall & Dajeej : 11 am - 4:30 pm and 8 pm - 1 am
• Co-op : 8:30 am - 6 pm and 8:30 pm - 1 am
• Geant Hypermarket : 8 am - 1 am (closed during Iftar)

Q8 Balance

• Boards & Boats - Saturday to Thursday : 8 pm till 11 pm

Quality Net

• Head office (Al Khaleejia Complex) : 10 am - 3 pm and 9 pm - 11:30 pm (Sunday to Thursday)
• Sahari Mall - Jahra : 10 am - 1 pm and 9 pm - 12 midnight (Saturday to Thursday)

Waves Delivery

• 12:30 pm - 6 pm
• 9:30 pm - 12 midnight

X-cite (All Branches)

• Saturday to Thursday : 10 am - 4 pm and 8 pm - 1 am
• Friday : 8 pm - 1 am
• Marina Mall (Saturday to Thursday): 11 am - 4 pm & 8:30 pm - 1 am
• Marina Mall (Friday): 8 pm - 1 am
• Friday (Fahaheel, Avenues, Sahari & Liwan-Fintas) : 10 am - 4 pm & 8 pm - 1 am

AAB World

• Shamiya  Co-op , Symphony Salmiya and Salhiya : 9 am - 3:30 pm & 8 pm - 12 midnight.
• CityCenter Salmiya : 10 am - 4 pm & 8 pm - 12:30 am.

The following are the times posted by Mark on 248am blog (CLICK HERE for the post)

Banks: 10AM to 1:30PM (Airport 24 hours)
Government: 9:30AM to 2PM
360 Mall: 11AM to 3PM & 8:30PM to 1AM
Avenues Mall: 10AM to 4 & 8PM to 1AM
Gate Mall: 10AM to 3PM & 8PM to 12AM
Marina Mall: 11AM to 4PM & 8:30PM to 1AM
Salhiya: 10:30AM to 2:30PM & 8:30PM – 12:30AM
Souq Sharq: 10AM to 4PM & 8:30PM to 1AM

Cinescape - Kuwait National Cinema Company

• First 20 days of Ramadan : 9 pm - 2 am (Across All Screens - All Locations)
• Last 10 days of Ramadan - CLOSED (7th July until 16th July)

Kuwait Central Blood Bank (Jabriya - Mubarak Al Kabeer Hospital Campus opposite Hawally)

• BLOOD Donation : Sunday - Thursday 10 am - 2 pm and 9 pm - 1:30 am
• PLATELET Donation : Sunday - Thursday 8:30 am - 1 pm and 9 pm - 1:30 am
• BLOOD & PLATELET Donation Saturday - 9 pm - 1:30 am
• Friday closed

Kuwait Central Blood Bank ( Jahra and Adan branch)

• Sunday - Thursday 9 pm - 1:30 am

BALADIA (Kuwait Municipality) announces timing for Burials across different cemetery/graveyard (Based on Circular no 3-2015)

• Morning - 10 am
• Afternoon - After Asr Prayers (3:20 pm)
• Night - 10 pm

Photo Courtesy to Baladia/Kuwait Municipality

Sunday 25/01/2015 is a holiday

Three days of mourning has been declared in Kuwait following the news of demise of the Saudi Arabian King Abdulla bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud. He passed away in the early hours of Friday (around 1 am). State of Kuwait declared a three day morning starting Friday, 23/01/2015 and will last up to Sunday, 25/01/2015. Consecutively, other departments and organisations have been declaring their suspension of activities for these three days. (SOURCE: CLICK HERE for the KUNA article)

Civil Service Commission (CSC) Kuwait has decided to shutdown the government ministries and departments for these three days. Therefore everyone will return to active duty starting Monday, 26/01/2015. Union of Kuwaiti Banks has also announced that they will not open on Sunday for business.

In Kuwait, as the events of Hala February is going on and many events are scheduled during January and February, Therefore some of these events have been suspended and postponed. Therefore people should inquire about the events in advance. The Organizing committee of the Fifth National Heritage Festival announced the suspension of their activities.

Circular from Civil Service Commission

Petrol prices in Kuwait's Fuel Stations

Photo Courtesy to Google Images and respective companies

A place were Petrol is cheaper that the Packaged Drinking water. Kuwait is a place where one enjoys driving cars because of petrol prices being low compared to other countries. But driving in Kuwait with the current traffic and high vehicle density is a whole different issue!

Currently the Petrol and other fuel prices in the Fuel stations throughout Kuwait are as follows (1 Kuwaiti Dinar, KD = 1000 Fils):

• Petrol (91 Octane) known as Premium = 60 Fils (KD 0.060) (Available in all the fuel stations in Kuwait). (LATEST UPDATE - 01/01/2018 - 85 Fils (KD 0.085))
• Petrol (95 Octane) known as Super = 65 Fils (KD 0.065) (Also available in all the fuel stations in Kuwait).(LATEST UPDATE - 01/01/2018 - 105 Fils (KD 0.105))
• Petrol (98 Octane) known as Ultra = 90 Fils (KD 0.090) (Available in a few fuel stations).(LATEST UPDATE - 01/01/2018 - 165 Fils (KD 0.165))
• Diesel = 55 Fils (KD 0.055) (This is available on all highways. Not available in Fuel station within Residential areas).(LATEST UPDATE - 01/01/2018 - 110 Fils (KD 0.110))
• Kerosene = 55 Fils (KD 0.055) (Available in a selected few).(LATEST UPDATE - 01/01/2018 - 110 Fils (KD 0.110))

For the details of which Fuel is available in a fuel station out of the 118 Fuel stations across Kuwait, CLICK HERE.

For the past decade, Petrol in Kuwait is Unleaded. Therefore all the above Petrol mentioned are Unleaded. A decade ago, Kuwait was having Leaded Petrol which was sold at 40 Fils. Kuwait decided to be a little environmental friendly by reducing Lead emissions and shifted to Unleaded Petrol which were 60 Fils. This also helped in increasing the other fuel prices such as Diesel and Kerosene from 20 Fils to 55 Fils.

Also Kuwait has 118 Fuel stations across Kuwait which are active. New ones are coming up as and when required. Example, a fuel station for a newly developed areas or on a long distance highways. The company in charge of providing fuel all over the Kuwait is KNPC (Kuwait National Petroleum Company). The maintenance of the Fuel station have been divided equally among 3 companies : KNPC, Oula and Soor. All the Fuel stations are Automatic and self-service. For Female drivers, helpers (maintenance company employees) are available for re-fueling so they do not need to step out of their vehicles. The payment for the fuel is done at the drive through booth by mentioning the fuel pump number in the comfort of your vehicle. Also lately more number of Fuel stations have started putting up close circuit cameras throughout the station.

UPDATE:(01/01/2015): In Mid October 2014, the Government of Kuwait decided to remove the subsidy on Diesel and Kerosene. The implementation of the price change will take effect from 01/01/2015. After removing of the subsidy price, the fuel price will become 170 fils for both Diesel and Kerosene. The government is still going through the study reports on removal of Subsidy on other utilities like Electricity, Water, Petrol, LPG cylinders and other subsidized products. As of date, none of these have changed.

The government is giving restrictive subsidy. One of the first is the Cooperative Societies Union which asked for diesel and kerosene subsidy with regard to Bakeries so that they can be supplied at the old price of 55 fils. (CLICK HERE for the Arabtimes article and CLICK HERE for the Kuwait Times article.)

UPDATE: (28/01/2015): The Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) announced today that the rate for Diesel and Kerosene will be 110 fils (KD 0.110) each. This decision was made after the subsidies committee at the Ministry of Finance made its decision in light of the developments of current oil prices in the global markets. The price will be applied nation wide from 1st February 2015 (01/02/2015). The committee announced that the future prices of Diesel and Kerosene will be in line with the prices in the global markets and will be revised monthly. (SOURCE: CLICK HERE for KUNA article)

UPDATE: (01/01/2018): The measures being taken by the Arabian gulf states with regard to reduction and removal of subsidies from the Oil derivatives is ongoing due to the continuous low price of international crude oil prices and systematic independence from oil dependency economy.
The Arabian Gulf countries have started reducing or removing subsidies as per the dates below:

Saudi Arabia - December 28, 2015 (First Time) (Oct 91 at 0.20$, Oct 95 at 0.24$, Diesel 0.09$)

Bahrain - January 11, 2016

Qatar - January 15, 2016

Oman - January 15, 2016

U.A.E - May 29, 2016

Kuwait - September 01, 2016

Saudi Arabia - December 31, 2017 (Second Time) (Oct 91 at 0.37$, Oct 95 at 0.54, Diesel 0.12$)

Petrol and Diesel prices as of January 2018 for GCC countries (in US Dollars $)
Fuel	Saudi Arabia	UAE	Qatar	Bahrain	Oman	Kuwait
Petrol (Super) Oct 95	0.54	0.61	0.51	0.42	0.55	0.35
Petrol (Premium) Oct 91	0.37	0.56	0.49	0.33	0.52	0.28
Diesel	0.12	0.63	0.48	0.32	0.60	0.36

Reference: 

CLICK HERE for the post in Kuwait Times. (31/08/2016)

CLICK HERE for the post in Arab Times. (02/01/2017)

CLICK HERE to see all the Fuel prices from around the world (Global Petrol Prices)