| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −2h | Becomes −3h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −1h | Becomes −2h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +1h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +6h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +7h | Becomes +8h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −7h | Becomes −8h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −10h | Becomes −11h on 1 Nov |
Asmara, Eritrea runs on UTC+3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Asmara and New York is 7 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 16:00–18:00 in Asmara lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Asmara and London is 2 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 7 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 11:00–18:00 in Asmara lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Asmara and Tokyo is 6 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–12:00 in Asmara lines up with 15:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Moscow, Istanbul, Nairobi. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Asmara.
Asmara (Eritrea) is home to roughly 963K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:13, sunset at 18:14. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 15° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Eritrea
Capital
Asmara 👑
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Africa/Asmara
Coordinates
15.33°N, 38.93°E
Currency
ERN (Nfk)
Calling Code
+291
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Tigrinya, Arabic, English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Asmara holds around 400 buildings of 1930s Italian rationalist and futurist design, including a petrol station shaped like an aeroplane. UNESCO listed the whole city in 2017 as a modernist ensemble.
The clock: Asmara keeps UTC+3 at about 2,325 metres, high enough that it is temperate all year while the Red Sea coast a few hours below is among the hottest places on Earth.
Asmara lies at 38.9°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The 6.1° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 24 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:24 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+3 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 13h 2m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 13m. The swing between them is 1h 49m. Inside the tropics the day length stays within a narrow band all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Asmara the sun comes up earliest on 4 June at 05:53, while the latest sunset waits until 10 July at 18:59. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Asmara that civil twilight runs about 21 minutes at the equinox.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Asmara, Eritrea is Africa/Asmara with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Asmara has an estimated population of 963K and is located at coordinates 15.33°N, 38.93°E. It is the capital city of Eritrea.
Asmara gets 13h 2m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 13m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Asmara falls at about 12:24 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 6.1° from the meridian its zone is built on.
An Italian Modernist City in Africa: Asmara holds around 400 buildings of 1930s Italian rationalist and futurist design, including a petrol station shaped like an aeroplane. UNESCO listed the whole city in 2017 as a modernist ensemble.