What time is it in Somalia?

Somalia stays on UTC+3:00 all year. Its offset from UTC never moves, so its relationship to places that do change shifts twice a year instead — which is usually why someone checks. Right now it is 3 hours ahead of UTC, and 8 hours ahead of New York.

Mogadishu is 8 hours ahead of New York and 11 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 5:00 pm in Mogadishu.

To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.

The day is 12 hours 2 minutes long in Mogadishu, and holding steady — within a minute of yesterday’s. The sun peaks at 11:42 am, 18 minutes before noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Mogadishu sits 1 minutes of solar time east of UTC+3:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

Mogadishu is close enough to the equator that the solar year barely happens: the longest day of 2026 is 12 hours 14 minutes and the shortest 12 hours — a swing of 14 minutes across the whole year, against more than nine hours in northern Europe. There is no long summer evening here and no dark afternoon in December; sunset lands at much the same time every day.

Somalia’s offset has not moved once since 1970 — no daylight saving, and no change of zone.

On UTC+3:00 right now, the same clock as Somalia: