Current time in Yemen
Local time in Yemen
The time in Yemen is 3 hours ahead of UTC and 8 hours ahead of Columbus. The timezone in Yemen is Arabia Standard Time (AST). Yemen is not using Daylight Saving Time (DST) but used to in the past. The last DST transition was in 1947.
Details for the time in Yemen
| Current time | 11:53 a.m.
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| Time zone | Arabia Standard Time (AST) |
| IANA time zone | Asia/Aden |
| Your time difference | 8 hours ahead of Columbus |
| UTC time difference | UTC+3 3 hours ahead of UTC |
Yemen Daylight Saving Time (DST)
Yemen is not using Daylight Saving Time.
Yemen
Yemen uses Arabia Standard Time AST. AST is UTC +0300. Yemen’s latitude and longitude is 15° 0' N and 48° 0 ' E. Therefore a three hours offset between UTC and AST is perfect for Yemen. Because Yemen isn’t far north of the equator the country has no need for daylight savings time. Is not a very big country. It takes the sun about 30 minutes to “travel” from the east to the west of the country.
Important cities in Yemen
The current time in some important cities in Yemen is shown below.
Time in Yemen