What time is season five of Stranger Things coming out around the world?

Netflix’s Stranger Things is returning for its fifth and final season, bringing the long-running hit sci-fi drama to its endgame.

After three years, the show heads back to Hawkins as the Upside Down continues to spread and as the core group of characters have one last showdown with the supernatural.

The new season will be released in three parts, with the first four episodes arriving on Wednesday (or Thursday, depending on location), followed by three more at Christmas and a feature-length finale on New Year’s Eve.

Season five release across time zones

The new season of Stranger Things will be released at 8pm (Eastern Time) on Wednesday, which means it will come out at 5am (Gulf Standard Time) on Thursday in the UAE.

Here is when the show is expected to drop in other global time zones:

1am in the UK (GMT)

2am in western and central Europe (CET, UTC+1)

3am in Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt (UTC+2)

4am in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain (UTC+3)

5am in the UAE and Oman (GST, UTC+4)

6.30am in India and Sri Lanka (IST, UTC+5:30)

8am in Western Indonesia, 9am in Central Indonesia and 10am in Eastern Indonesia

9am in the Philippines, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore (UTC+8)

10am in Japan and South Korea (JST/KST, UTC+9)

Noon in Sydney and Melbourne (AEDT, UTC+11)

2pm in New Zealand (NZDT, UTC+13)

3am in South Africa (SAST, UTC+2)

What are the episodes titled?

Episode 1, The Crawl

Episode 2, The Vanishing of …

Episode 3, The Turnbow Trap

Episode 4, Sorcerer

Episode 5, Shock Jock

Episode 6, Escape from Camazotz

Episode 7, The Bridge

Episode 8, The Rightside Up

Who is in the cast?

Most of the Stranger Things cast will return, including its young stars Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Sadie Sink and Noah Schnapp. The series also stars Priah Ferguson, Joe Keery, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Maya Hawke, Jamie Campbell Bower, Winona Ryder and David Harbour.

New to the final season are Nell Fisher, Jake Connelly and Alex Breaux, along with Terminator star Linda Hamilton, who is a longtime fan of the show.

Linda Hamilton as Dr Kay in Stranger Things. Photo: Netflix

“I’ve watched every season with relish. I just love it,” Hamilton told Us Weekly last year. “So it’s kind of like imposter syndrome where I don’t [feel that I] fit in there. That’s a whole world set in the ’80s.”

What happened at the end of season four?

The end of season four came out in July 2022, so it’s been a while.