Indexed entity
Mek'ele is the mek-ele-ET record in Ethiopia: country slug ethiopia, city slug mek-ele, ISO ET, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Addis_Ababa.
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Live local time
Mek'ele, Ethiopia
01:44:50 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Addis_Ababa
Quick answer
It is currently 01:44:50 PM (EAT, UTC+03:00) in Mek'ele, Ethiopia — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
24°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
30°C
14°C
Wed
30°C
15°C
Thu
29°C
16°C
35% rain
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
ETB
Live ECB rate not available for this currency.
Conversion rates aren’t published for this currency by the ECB. The local code is shown for reference.
Today
Sunrise
05:53 AM
Sunset
06:46 PM
Day length
12h 52m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Mek'ele, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:44 AM UTC.
Current local time
01:44:50 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
EAT
Africa/Addis_Ababa · UTC+03:00
Next holiday
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Mek'ele right now
Nearest airport
ADD
Addis Ababa Bole International Airport · 508 km
Indexed airports
1
Curated airport references available for Ethiopia
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Mek'ele, Ethiopia.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 13:44 GMT+3
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Mek'ele is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+03:00
Zone label
GMT+3
London
11:44 AM / -2h
Dubai
02:44 PM / +1h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
ADD Addis Ababa, 508 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:53 AM to 06:46 PM, with solar noon around 12:20 PM and total daylight of 12h 53m.
Mapped location
13.50°N, 39.48°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:44 AM / -2h
Good live-call window with Mek'ele right now.
New York
06:44 AM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:44 AM / -10h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:44 PM / +1h
Good live-call window with Mek'ele right now.
Singapore
06:44 PM / +5h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Mek'ele.
ADD · Addis Ababa Bole International Airport
Addis Ababa
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Addis_Ababa for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+03:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+03:00.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Mek'ele right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest curated airport reference: ADD Addis Ababa, 508 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Addis_Ababa. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Mek'ele has no near-term DST change or holiday interruption in view, but future rules can still be revised by local authorities.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Mek'ele.
Canonical route
/time/ethiopia/mek-ele/
Catalog identity
mek-ele-ET · ET · Africa
Coordinate cell
13.50°N, 39.48°E · lat 13.497 · lon 39.475 · cell 1350:3948
Population record
457,900 residents · country rank 4
Zone snapshot
Africa/Addis_Ababa · GMT+3 · UTC+03:00
January / July offsets
UTC+03:00 / UTC+03:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Asmara, Eritrea · 213 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 2,104 km
Closest airport references
ADD Addis Ababa 508 km
Zone peer roster
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia · Jijiga, Ethiopia · Gonder, Ethiopia
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Mek'ele: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Mek'ele is the mek-ele-ET record in Ethiopia: country slug ethiopia, city slug mek-ele, ISO ET, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Addis_Ababa.
13.50°N, 39.48°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 13 and longitude band 39; exact decimal pair 13.49667, 39.47528.
Ethiopia: official name Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; capital Addis Ababa; region Africa; subregion Eastern Africa; country population 111,652,998; area 1,104,300 km²; languages Amharic; currencies ETB Ethiopian birr. This is the country layer behind the Mek'ele clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Ethiopia: Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. Ethiopia covers a land area of 1,104,300 square kilometres (426,400 sq mi). As of 2025, it has around 135 million inhabitants, making it the 14th-most populous country. The national capital and largest city, Addis Ababa, lies several kilometres west of the East African Rift that splits the country into the African and Somali tectonic plates. Source: Wikipedia.
Asmara [asmara-ER, ER, Africa/Asmara, 213 km]; Massawa [massawa-ER, ER, Africa/Asmara, 235 km]; Gonder [gonder-ET, ET, Africa/Addis_Ababa, 239 km]; Keren [keren-ER, ER, Africa/Asmara, 277 km]; Himora [himora-ER, ER, Africa/Asmara, 322 km]; Dikhil [dikhil-DJ, DJ, Africa/Djibouti, 412 km]; Tadjoura [tadjoura-DJ, DJ, Africa/Djibouti, 416 km]; Ali Sabih [ali-sabih-DJ, DJ, Africa/Djibouti, 437 km]
Mek'ele is part of this indexed country cluster: Addis Ababa [addis-ababa-ET, Africa/Addis_Ababa, pop 3,860,000]; Jijiga [jijiga-ET, Africa/Addis_Ababa, pop 483,000]; Gonder [gonder-ET, Africa/Addis_Ababa, pop 466,000]; Mek'ele [mek-ele-ET, Africa/Addis_Ababa, pop 457,900].
Dubai 2,104 km; London 5,508 km; Singapore 7,201 km; Tokyo 10,029 km; São Paulo 10,216 km; New York 10,912 km; Sydney 12,833 km; Los Angeles 14,226 km
ADD Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa [ET, 508 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include ADD Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa [ET].
Mek'ele renders Jun 2, 2026 · 13:44 GMT+3; GMT+3 at UTC+03:00; January UTC+03:00; July UTC+03:00; next holiday not currently surfaced.
This evidence pack is what keeps smaller city pages from reading like timezone templates: concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Mek'ele.
Mek'ele is a context-and-reference city; rank #4 of 4 retained Ethiopia city pages. The route is /time/ethiopia/mek-ele/ and the city id is mek-ele-ET.
Mek'ele has 14 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Mek'ele is pinned at 13.50°N, 39.48°E; Asmara (213 km); Dubai (2,104 km).
Africa/Addis_Ababa resolves to stable UTC+03:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Ethiopia.
ADD Addis Ababa Bole International Airport (508 km) · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 1 country airport reference · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Mek'ele uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Mekelle: Mekelle, or Mek'ele, is a special zone and capital of the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Mekelle was formerly the capital of Enderta awraja in Tigray. It is located around 780 kilometres (480 mi) north of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, with an elevation of 2,254 metres (7,395 ft) above sea level. Administratively, Mekelle is considered a Special Zone, which is divided into seven sub-cities. It is the economic, cultural, and political hub of northern Ethiopia.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+03:00) is constant year-round.
Mek'ele is listed in the dataset snapshot as 3 hours ahead of UTC (offset +03:00). 2 hours ahead of London, 6 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 39.48°, Mek'ele's mean solar noon falls about 22 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Mek'ele sits at 13.50°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Mek'ele sits at 13.50°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Jun 11 (12h 55m)
Shortest day
Dec 12 (11h 20m)
Year-round average
12h 8m
Annual swing
1h 35m
See the full daylight curve for Mek'ele at /sun/mek-ele/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Mek'ele local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Mek'ele |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 16:00 - 00:00 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 06:30 - 14:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 04:00 - 12:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 04:00 - 12:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 03:00 - 11:00 |
Reference fields include Mek'ele's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 01:44:50 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Mek'ele (UTC+03:00, EAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:53 AM to 06:46 PM
Day length 12h 53m · Solar noon 12:20 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Mek'ele local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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34 days to go
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Population
457.9K
Coordinates
13.50, 39.48
Timezone
Africa/Addis_Ababa
Indexed airports
1
Capital
Addis Ababa
Languages
Amharic
Currency
ETB (Br)
Country area
1,104,300 km²
Mek'ele, Ethiopia (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Addis_Ababa (EAT, UTC+03:00); population ~457.9K.
Coordinates: 13.50°N, 39.48°E. Northern Hemisphere tropics, ~1498 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:53 AM and sets around 06:46 PM in Mek'ele — about 12h 53m of daylight. Ethiopia stays on standard time here, so UTC+03:00 is stable through the year.
Asmara (213 km from Mek'ele) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Ethiopia.
Mek'ele is indexed as a Africa city in the ET country record, using Africa/Addis_Ababa as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/ethiopia/mek-ele/.
Location context: 13.50°N, 39.48°E; population 457,900; nearest indexed city Asmara is about 213 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 2,104 km away.
Country planning context: capital Addis Ababa; subregion Eastern Africa; languages Amharic; currency ETB (Br); area 1,104,300 km²; 1 curated airport references; no upcoming holiday signal currently in view.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+03:00) is constant year-round.
Mek'ele is listed in the dataset snapshot as 3 hours ahead of UTC (offset +03:00). 2 hours ahead of London, 6 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 39.48°, Mek'ele's mean solar noon falls about 22 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Mek'ele sits at 13.50°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Mid-sized city with around 458 thousand residents — busy enough to keep regular international business hours, small enough to retain a regional character. (Mek'ele city-proper figure.)
Related clock anchors for Mek'ele: Addis Ababa (same time), San Francisco (−10h), Los Angeles (−10h), Mumbai (+2.5h), São Paulo (−6h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
ethiopia
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
EAT
IANA Zone
Africa/Addis Ababa
UTC Offset
UTC+03:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+03:00
Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan, Syria
Other cities in this timezone
London
-2h
New York
-7h
Los Angeles
-10h
Dubai
+1h
Singapore
+5h
Tokyo
+6h
Sydney
+7h
São Paulo
-6h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Mek'ele.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Mek'ele: closest hubs Dubai (~2,104 km), London (~5,508 km), Singapore (~7,201 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~14,226 km).
Mek'ele sits inside Ethiopia — the Eastern Africa subregion, capital Addis Ababa, languages Amharic, currency ETB (Br).
Closest indexed cities to Mek'ele: Asmara (213 km), Massawa (235 km), Gonder (239 km), Keren (277 km).
Closest curated airport references from Mek'ele: ADD Addis Ababa (508 km).
Addis Ababa Bole International AirportADD
Addis Ababa · 508 km from Mek'ele
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 24m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
2 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:44 AM | -2h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:44 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:44 AM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:44 PM | +1h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:44 PM | +5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:44 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:44 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:44 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
Mek'ele is in the Africa/Addis_Ababa timezone (EAT), with a UTC offset of +03:00.
Mek'ele does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+03:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Mek'ele is UTC+03:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Mek'ele, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 13:44 GMT+3. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Mek'ele sits at 13.50°N, 39.48°E in Ethiopia, with about 457.9K residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Mek'ele is Dubai, about 2,104 km away as the crow flies.
Asmara is the closest indexed city, roughly 213 km from Mek'ele.
Addis Ababa Bole International Airport (ADD) is the closest curated airport reference, about 508 km from Mek'ele.
Mek'ele uses Ethiopian birr (ETB, symbol Br) as the local currency of Ethiopia.
The longest day of 2026 in Mek'ele falls on Jun 11 with about 12h 55m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 12 with 11h 20m; the year-round average is 12h 8m.
In Mek'ele local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 16:00-00:00 (next day); London 11:00-19:00; Frankfurt 10:00-18:00; Dubai 08:00-16:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.