| 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 |
Massawa, 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 Massawa 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 Massawa lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Massawa 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 Massawa lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Massawa 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 Massawa 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 Massawa.
Massawa (Eritrea) is home to roughly 55K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:11, sunset at 18:12. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 16° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Eritrea
Capital
Asmara
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Africa/Asmara
Coordinates
15.61°N, 39.45°E
Currency
ERN (Nfk)
Calling Code
+291
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Tigrinya, Arabic, English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Massawa records average annual temperatures around 30°C, among the highest of any inhabited place on Earth, with summer highs regularly above 40°C. Its old town is built of coral blocks in Ottoman and Egyptian styles.
The clock: Massawa keeps UTC+3. The Danakil Depression inland, partly in Eritrea, is one of the lowest and hottest places on the planet.
Massawa lies at 39.5°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The 5.5° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 22 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:22 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 3m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 12m. The swing between them is 1h 51m. 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 Massawa the sun comes up earliest on 4 June at 05:50, while the latest sunset waits until 10 July at 18:57. 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 Massawa 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 Massawa, Eritrea is Africa/Asmara with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Massawa has an estimated population of 55K and is located at coordinates 15.61°N, 39.45°E.
Massawa gets 13h 3m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 12m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Massawa falls at about 12:22 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 5.5° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Among the Hottest Inhabited Places: Massawa records average annual temperatures around 30°C, among the highest of any inhabited place on Earth, with summer highs regularly above 40°C. Its old town is built of coral blocks in Ottoman and Egyptian styles.