| 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 |
Sanaa, Yemen runs on UTC+3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Sanaa 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 Sanaa lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Sanaa 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 Sanaa lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Sanaa 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 Sanaa 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 Sanaa.
Sanaa (Yemen) is home to roughly 3.0M people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:52, sunset at 17:53. 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
Yemen
Capital
Sanaa 👑
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Asia/Aden
Coordinates
15.37°N, 44.19°E
Currency
YER (﷼)
Calling Code
+967
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Arabic
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Sanaa's old city holds over 6,000 tower houses, many of them several storeys of rammed earth and fired brick with white gypsum tracery, some standing for more than 400 years. The city has been inhabited for over 2,500.
The clock: Sanaa keeps UTC+3 at about 2,250 metres, one of the highest capital cities in the world.
Sanaa lies at 44.2°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 12:03, 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 13h 2m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 13m. The swing between them is 1h 50m. 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 Sanaa the sun comes up earliest on 4 June at 05:31, while the latest sunset waits until 10 July at 18:38. 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 Sanaa 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 Sanaa, Yemen is Asia/Aden with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Sanaa has an estimated population of 3.0M and is located at coordinates 15.37°N, 44.19°E. It is the capital city of Yemen.
Sanaa 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 Sanaa falls at about 12:03 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 0.8° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Tower Houses Built Before Skyscrapers: Sanaa's old city holds over 6,000 tower houses, many of them several storeys of rammed earth and fired brick with white gypsum tracery, some standing for more than 400 years. The city has been inhabited for over 2,500.