Local time in Ethiopia
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Current local time in Ethiopia (EAT (UTC+3)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — Addis Ababa
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Differences are relative to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Ethiopia
- Standard label
- EAT (UTC+3)
- Standard offset (Addis Ababa)
- UTC+3
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- Addis Ababa
- IANA zones
- Africa/Nairobi
Ethiopia uses EAT (UTC+3) as its standard time. Clocks stay on the same offset all year round — daylight saving time is not observed. Times on this page are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database, so they always match the real current time in Ethiopia.
Sunrise and sunset in Addis Ababa
At 9.0° north, Addis Ababa gets 12 h 39 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 11 h 36 min around the December solstice — a difference of 1 h 03 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 06:46 | 12:37 | 18:27 | 11 h 41 min |
| 21 February | 06:43 | 12:40 | 18:36 | 11 h 53 min |
| 21 March | 06:30 | 12:33 | 18:37 | 12 h 07 min |
| 21 April | 06:13 | 12:24 | 18:35 | 12 h 22 min |
| 21 May | 06:06 | 12:23 | 18:39 | 12 h 34 min |
| 21 June | 06:08 | 12:27 | 18:47 | 12 h 39 min |
| 21 July | 06:15 | 12:32 | 18:49 | 12 h 35 min |
| 21 August | 06:18 | 12:29 | 18:41 | 12 h 23 min |
| 21 September | 06:15 | 12:19 | 18:23 | 12 h 08 min |
| 21 October | 06:14 | 12:10 | 18:07 | 11 h 53 min |
| 21 November | 06:21 | 12:12 | 18:02 | 11 h 41 min |
| 21 December | 06:36 | 12:24 | 18:12 | 11 h 36 min |
Calculated for Addis Ababa (9.04°, 38.75°; coordinates from Wikidata) with the standard solar-position formulas used by NOAA, for a sea-level horizon. Results are accurate to about a minute; hills, buildings and altitude shift what you actually see. Times change by only a minute or two from year to year.
Daylight saving time in Ethiopia
Ethiopia does not change its clocks: it stays on EAT (UTC+3) all year in 2026 and 2027.
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.