Time in Addis Ababa
Ethiopia · Africa/Addis Ababa · latitude 9.03°
Reading your clock…
Addis Ababa never changes its clocks
Addis Ababa stays on UTC+03:00 all year round. This is worth being careful about rather than relaxed about: the gap between Addis Ababa and a city that does observe daylight saving still moves twice a year, because the other end moved. A recurring call can drift by an hour without anything changing here at all.
Time difference from Addis Ababa
Where a range is shown, the gap genuinely changes during the year. That is not rounding or hedging — it is two governments moving their clocks on different weekends.
| City | Difference now | Across the year |
|---|---|---|
| London | 2 hours behind | −3h / −2h |
| New York | 7 hours behind | −8h / −7h |
| Los Angeles | 10 hours behind | −11h / −10h |
| Chicago | 8 hours behind | −9h / −8h |
| Toronto | 7 hours behind | −8h / −7h |
| Paris | 1 hour behind | −2h / −1h |
| Berlin | 1 hour behind | −2h / −1h |
| Dubai | 1 hour ahead | constant |
| Mumbai | 2 hours 30 minutes ahead | constant |
| Singapore | 5 hours ahead | constant |
| Hong Kong | 5 hours ahead | constant |
| Tokyo | 6 hours ahead | constant |
| Sydney | 7 hours ahead | +7h / +8h |
| Auckland | 9 hours ahead | +9h / +10h |
| São Paulo | 6 hours behind | constant |
| UTC | 3 hours behind | constant |
Daylight in Addis Ababa through the year
From about 11.6 hours in December to 12.7 hours in June. This is the part a plain clock leaves out: 17:00 is a bright evening in one month and long dark in another.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 06:21 | 18:01 | 11h 40m |
| February | 06:18 | 18:11 | 11h 53m |
| March | 06:05 | 18:12 | 12h 7m |
| April | 05:49 | 18:10 | 12h 21m |
| May | 05:40 | 18:14 | 12h 34m |
| June | 05:42 | 18:21 | 12h 39m |
| July | 05:49 | 18:24 | 12h 35m |
| August | 05:53 | 18:15 | 12h 22m |
| September | 05:50 | 17:57 | 12h 7m |
| October | 05:48 | 17:42 | 11h 54m |
| November | 05:56 | 17:37 | 11h 41m |
| December | 06:10 | 17:46 | 11h 36m |
Daylight length is accurate. The clock times of sunrise and sunset assume each city sits at the centre of its time zone, which can put them up to about an hour and a quarter out for places near a zone's edge — Madrid being the standard example. Day length is unaffected.
Questions
About time in Addis Ababa
What time zone is Addis Ababa in?
Addis Ababa uses the IANA time zone Africa/Addis_Ababa, a fixed UTC+03:00 with no daylight saving.
Does Addis Ababa observe daylight saving time?
No. Addis Ababa stays on UTC+03:00 all year. That does not mean the gap between Addis Ababa and other cities is fixed, though: when a city that does observe daylight saving changes its clocks, the difference between you and them moves even though nothing changed here.
Why does the time difference to Addis Ababa keep changing?
Because the two places do not change their clocks on the same weekend, and in opposite hemispheres they change in opposite directions. London is a clear example: it sits 3 hours behind, then 2 hours behind across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Addis Ababa get?
Around 12.7 hours at the longest, in June, and about 11.6 hours at the shortest, in December. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Addis Ababa's latitude of 9.03° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.