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About Addis Ababa
Home to roughly 3,384,569 residents, Addis Ababa is a large regional centre in Ethiopia. Its terrain rests around 2355 m of elevation, giving the area cooler nights than its latitude alone would suggest.
The Africa/Addis_Ababa zone governs civic time in Addis Ababa; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the equatorial belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (9.02°).
Beyond the live clock, every datapoint on this page — sun events, holidays, time-zone offsets — is also available as machine-readable JSON, ready for agents and integrations.
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Questions about time in Addis Ababa
The current local time in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Addis Ababa uses the IANA time zone Africa/Addis_Ababa, currently UTC+3.
Whether Addis Ababa observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Africa/Addis_Ababa) is the source of truth.
Addis Ababa is currently 7 hours ahead of New York.
Addis Ababa is currently 2 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Addis Ababa are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (9.0249, 38.7469).
Currency and dialing-code information is not available for this entry.
Addis Ababa sits at 9.0249° N, 38.7469° E, 2355 m above sea level, in Ethiopia.