| 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 |
Dire Dawa, 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 Dire Dawa 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 Dire Dawa lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Dire Dawa 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 Dire Dawa lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Dire Dawa 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 Dire Dawa 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 Dire Dawa.
Dire Dawa (Ethiopia) is home to roughly 500K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:01, sunset at 18:04. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 10° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Ethiopia
Capital
Addis Ababa
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Africa/Addis_Ababa
Coordinates
9.59°N, 41.86°E
Currency
ETB (Br)
Calling Code
+251
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Amharic
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Dire Dawa was founded in 1902 because the Addis Ababa–Djibouti railway could not economically climb to Harar, so the station was placed on the plain below and a city grew around it.
The clock: Dire Dawa keeps UTC+3. Ethiopia also keeps its own calendar, seven to eight years behind the Gregorian, and counts hours from dawn.
Dire Dawa lies at 41.9°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The 3.1° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 13 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:13 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 41m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 34m. The swing between them is 1h 7m. Within a few degrees of the equator the length of the day barely moves all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Dire Dawa the sun comes up earliest on 29 May at 05:51, while the latest sunset waits until 15 July at 18:37. 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 Dire Dawa 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 Dire Dawa, Ethiopia is Africa/Addis_Ababa with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Dire Dawa has an estimated population of 500K and is located at coordinates 9.59°N, 41.86°E.
Dire Dawa gets 12h 41m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 34m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Dire Dawa falls at about 12:13 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 3.1° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City the Railway Built: Dire Dawa was founded in 1902 because the Addis Ababa–Djibouti railway could not economically climb to Harar, so the station was placed on the plain below and a city grew around it.