Current time in Asmara, Eritrea right now
It is 8:08 pm in Asmara, Eritrea 🇪🇷 right now, on Thursday, November 5, 2026. The city keeps Africa/Asmara, which is UTC+3 at UTC+3, so Asmara is 3 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 5:08 pm. The sun rose in Asmara at 6:22 am and sets at 5:54 pm, which is 11 hours 32 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Asmara right now?
The time in Asmara, Eritrea is 8:08 pm, 20:08 on a 24 hour clock, on Thursday November 5, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Africa/Asmara rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Asmara sits at 15.34 degrees north and 38.93 degrees east, inside the tropics, north of the equator and 1,706 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 45.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 6.1 degrees west of that line. Those 6.1 degrees are worth 24 minutes 16 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:08 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Asmara time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Asmara, Eritrea is Africa/Asmara. Right now it is running at UTC+3 and the abbreviation in force is UTC+3. Asmara does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC+3 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving Asmara ever needs a seasonal footnote.
Daylight hours in Asmara today
The sun rose in Asmara at 6:22 am and sets at 5:54 pm, which is 11 hours 32 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Asmara, is at 12:08 pm, which is 8 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -15.73 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 58.9 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Asmara |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 6:22 am |
| Sunset | 5:54 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:08 pm |
| Day length | 11 hours 32 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 5:24 pm to 6:07 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 6:16 pm |
The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Asmara, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Asmara is on the map
The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.
An interactive map of Asmara. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Asmara on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Asmara and major cities
Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Asmara.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Asmara |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 9:08 am | -11 | 11 hours behind of Asmara |
| Chicago, Illinois | 11:08 am | -9 | 9 hours behind of Asmara |
| New York, New York | 12:08 pm | -8 | 8 hours behind of Asmara |
| Toronto, Canada | 12:08 pm | -8 | 8 hours behind of Asmara |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 2:08 pm | -6 | 6 hours behind of Asmara |
| London, United Kingdom | 5:08 pm | -3 | 3 hours behind of Asmara |
| Paris, France | 6:08 pm | -2 | 2 hours behind of Asmara |
| Berlin, Germany | 6:08 pm | -2 | 2 hours behind of Asmara |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 7:08 pm | -1 | 1 hour behind of Asmara |
| Moscow, Russia | 8:08 pm | 0 | same time as Asmara |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 9:08 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Asmara |
| Delhi, India | 10:38 pm | +2:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes ahead of Asmara |
| Singapore, Singapore | 1:08 am | +5 | 5 hours ahead of Asmara |
| Hong Kong, China | 1:08 am | +5 | 5 hours ahead of Asmara |
| Tokyo, Japan | 2:08 am | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Asmara |
| Sydney, Australia | 4:08 am | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Asmara |
Best time to call Asmara
Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Asmara | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -8 | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 10:00 am |
| Los Angeles | -11 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| London | -3 | 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 3:00 pm |
| Delhi | +2:30 | 9:00 am to 3:30 pm | 11:30 am to 6:00 pm |
| Sydney | +8 | 9:00 am to 10:00 am | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
Other cities in Eritrea
Asmara is the only city we cover in Eritrea, so there is no second clock in the country to compare it against here. The full city index has its neighbours across the border.
Cities on Africa/Asmara time
Asmara is the only city in our catalogue on Africa/Asmara. Other cities may share its UTC+3 offset today without sharing its rules, which is the distinction that matters the moment a clock change comes round.
Moon phase over Asmara tonight
The moon is a waning crescent tonight, 26.1 days into its cycle and about 13% lit. The next full moon falls on November 24, 2026 at 5:53 pm Asmara time, and the next new moon on November 9, 2026 at 10:01 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Asmara clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Asmara
There is no clock change scheduled in Africa/Asmara within the next 400 days, so Asmara stays at UTC+3 for the whole of that stretch.
That makes Asmara an easy city to schedule against: a meeting fixed at a given hour here holds its relationship to UTC all year, and only the other end of the call can move.
How far Asmara is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Asmara is Adigrat, Ethiopia at 131 km, and the furthest is Hilo, Hawaii at 15,825 km, which is 79% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adigrat, Ethiopia | 131 | 81 | south east | 8:08 pm |
| Inda Silase, Ethiopia | 154 | 96 | south west | 8:08 pm |
| Mek'ele, Ethiopia | 213 | 132 | south | 8:08 pm |
| Kassala, Sudan | 272 | 169 | west | 7:08 pm |
| Gonder, Ethiopia | 343 | 213 | south west | 8:08 pm |
| Weldiya, Ethiopia | 397 | 247 | south | 8:08 pm |
| Debre Tabor, Ethiopia | 400 | 249 | south | 8:08 pm |
| Al Qadarif, Sudan | 408 | 254 | west | 7:08 pm |
| Jizan, Saudi Arabia | 423 | 263 | north east | 8:08 pm |
| Al Hudaydah, Yemen | 436 | 271 | east | 8:08 pm |
The antipode of Asmara
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Asmara, Eritrea and you come out at 15.34 degrees south, 141.07 degrees west. That point is in the South Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Hilo, Hawaii, 4,190 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 7:08 am on Thursday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 15.34 degrees north becomes 15.34 degrees south, and 38.93 degrees east becomes 141.07 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Asmara is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-9, roughly twelve hours from Asmara, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Asmara
Today the sun rises in Asmara at 6:22 am and sets at 5:54 pm, giving 11 hours 32 minutes of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Asmara.
Sun and moon in Asmara today
The sun is up in Asmara for 11 hours 32 minutes today, from 6:22 am to 5:54 pm. The moon rises in Asmara at 2:53 am and sets at 3:14 pm. The next phase is the new moon on November 9, 2026. It is 15% lit at the moment, a waning crescent, thinning by about 7.7 percentage points a day.
| Sun | Time in Asmara |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:08 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:34 am |
| Civil dawn | 6:00 am |
| Sunrise | 6:22 am |
| Solar noon | 12:08 pm |
| Sunset | 5:54 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:16 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 6:41 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:07 pm |
Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.
| Light band | Time in Asmara | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 6:00 am to 6:08 am | 0h 09m |
| Morning golden hour | 6:08 am to 6:51 am | 0h 43m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:24 pm to 6:07 pm | 0h 43m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:07 pm to 6:16 pm | 0h 09m |
Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.
| Moon | Reading in Asmara |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 2:53 am |
| Moonset | 3:14 pm |
| Phase | waning crescent, waning |
| Illumination | 15% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 25.7 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 384,900 km |
Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.
Meeting planner: Asmara and four other places
Every hour of Thursday, November 5, 2026 in Asmara, Eritrea, read across 4 other places. Columns are Asmara local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
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| Asmara local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AsmaraUTC+3 UTC+3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPST UTC-8 | 13-1 | 14-1 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| New YorkEST UTC-5 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| LondonGMT UTC+0 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 2:30 | 3:30 | 4:30 | 5:30 | 6:30 | 7:30 | 8:30 | 9:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 22:30 | 23:30 | 0:30+1 | 1:30+1 |
No hour on Thursday, November 5, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Los Angeles and Delhi are 13 hours 30 minutes apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 12:00 pm in Asmara it is working hours in Asmara, London and Delhi, but outside them in Los Angeles and New York. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Asmara
Seven days from November 5, 2026, computed for Asmara, Eritrea at 15.34 degrees north, 38.93 degrees east, on the clock of Africa/Asmara. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday November 5 | 5:08 am | 6:22 am | 12:08 pm | 3:26 pm | 5:54 pm | 7:03 pm |
| Friday November 6 | 5:09 am | 6:22 am | 12:08 pm | 3:26 pm | 5:53 pm | 7:03 pm |
| Saturday November 7 | 5:09 am | 6:23 am | 12:08 pm | 3:26 pm | 5:53 pm | 7:02 pm |
| Sunday November 8 | 5:09 am | 6:23 am | 12:08 pm | 3:26 pm | 5:53 pm | 7:02 pm |
| Monday November 9 | 5:10 am | 6:23 am | 12:08 pm | 3:26 pm | 5:52 pm | 7:02 pm |
| Tuesday November 10 | 5:10 am | 6:24 am | 12:08 pm | 3:26 pm | 5:52 pm | 7:02 pm |
| Wednesday November 11 | 5:10 am | 6:24 am | 12:08 pm | 3:26 pm | 5:52 pm | 7:02 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Asmara, Eritrea, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.
Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.
Qibla direction from Asmara
From Asmara, Eritrea the qibla is 7.8 degrees on a true compass, which is north, or 7.8 degrees east of due north. The Kaaba is 683 km away, 424 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Asmara, Eritrea to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.
The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Asmara, Eritrea before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.
Put a Asmara clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Asmara, Eritrea, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Africa/Asmara from the time zone database, so it stays right when Asmara changes its clocks, and it shows UTC+3 to every visitor wherever they are reading from. It is a plain iframe: no account, no script to install, nothing to pay.
The box needs 183 pixels of height for these settings, which is what the code above sets, and the numbers show at full size from 305 pixels of width up. Narrower than that they scale down rather than wrapping, and turning a line off makes the box shorter. The code updates with either.
Asmara time now: common questions
- What time is it in Asmara, Eritrea right now?
- 8:08 pm on Thursday November 5, 2026. Asmara runs on UTC+3, UTC+3.
- What time zone is Asmara in?
- Africa/Asmara, currently UTC+3 at UTC+3. 1 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Asmara?
- UTC+3 at this instant. It is UTC+3 all year round, with no seasonal change.
- Does Asmara observe daylight saving time?
- No. Asmara stays on UTC+3 for the whole year.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Asmara of New York?
- Asmara is 8 hours ahead of New York, where it is 12:08 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Asmara today?
- 5:54 pm, after a sunrise at 6:22 am and 11 hours 32 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Asmara?
- 15.34 degrees south, 141.07 degrees west, in the South Pacific Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Asmara from London?
- Between 12:00 pm and 6:00 pm in Asmara, which is 9:00 am to 3:00 pm in London.
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