| 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 |
Mogadishu, Somalia runs on UTC+3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Mogadishu 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 Mogadishu lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Mogadishu 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 Mogadishu lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Mogadishu 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 Mogadishu 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 Mogadishu.
Mogadishu (Somalia) is home to roughly 2.4M people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:45, sunset at 17:51. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 2° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Somalia
Capital
Mogadishu 👑
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Africa/Mogadishu
Coordinates
2.05°N, 45.32°E
Currency
SOS (Sh)
Calling Code
+252
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Somali, Arabic
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Mogadishu was a major Indian Ocean trading port by the 10th century, and Ibn Battuta described it in 1331 as an exceedingly large city. Its Arba'a Rukun mosque dates to around 1269.
The clock: Mogadishu keeps UTC+3 and lies almost on the equator, where the sun rises and sets within about a quarter of an hour of 06:00 and 18:00 throughout the year.
Mogadishu lies at 45.3°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The two very nearly coincide: solar noon — the moment the sun is highest — falls at about 11:59, which is as close to true solar time as a zone this wide can get. The zone holds UTC+3 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 12h 14m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 12h. The swing between them is 14 minutes. 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 Mogadishu the sun comes up earliest on 29 October at 05:41, while the latest sunset waits until 18 February at 18:15. 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 Mogadishu 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 Mogadishu, Somalia is Africa/Mogadishu with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Mogadishu has an estimated population of 2.4M and is located at coordinates 2.05°N, 45.32°E. It is the capital city of Somalia.
Mogadishu gets 12h 14m of daylight on its longest day and 12h on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Mogadishu falls at about 11:59 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 0.3° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City Older Than Most Nations: Mogadishu was a major Indian Ocean trading port by the 10th century, and Ibn Battuta described it in 1331 as an exceedingly large city. Its Arba'a Rukun mosque dates to around 1269.