| 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 |
Bahir Dar, Ethiopia runs on UTC+3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Bahir Dar 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 Bahir Dar lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Bahir Dar 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 Bahir Dar lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Bahir Dar 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 Bahir Dar 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 Bahir Dar.
Bahir Dar (Ethiopia) is home to roughly 350K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:19, sunset at 18:21. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 12° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Ethiopia
Capital
Addis Ababa
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Africa/Addis_Ababa
Coordinates
11.59°N, 37.39°E
Currency
ETB (Br)
Calling Code
+251
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Amharic
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Lake Tana beside Bahir Dar is Ethiopia's largest lake and the source of the Blue Nile, which supplies the majority of the Nile's water downstream. Monasteries on its islands hold manuscripts going back centuries.
The clock: Bahir Dar keeps UTC+3 at about 1,800 metres. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile is the largest hydroelectric project in Africa.
Bahir Dar lies at 37.4°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The 7.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 30 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:30 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 12h 48m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 27m. The swing between them is 1h 22m. 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 Bahir Dar the sun comes up earliest on 31 May at 06:05, while the latest sunset waits until 13 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 Bahir Dar 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 Bahir Dar, Ethiopia is Africa/Addis_Ababa with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Bahir Dar has an estimated population of 350K and is located at coordinates 11.59°N, 37.39°E.
Bahir Dar gets 12h 48m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 27m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Bahir Dar falls at about 12:30 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 7.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Source of the Blue Nile: Lake Tana beside Bahir Dar is Ethiopia's largest lake and the source of the Blue Nile, which supplies the majority of the Nile's water downstream. Monasteries on its islands hold manuscripts going back centuries.