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CURRENT LOCAL TIME

Time in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

· East Africa Time

EAT · UTC+3—— H FROM YOUAFRICA/DAR_ES_SALAAM

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Dar es Salaam against your time zone

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Dar es Salaam compared with your time zone, hour by hour, with the working-hour overlap shaded
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Dar es Salaam time zone facts

IANA time zoneAfrica/Dar_es_Salaam
Offset nowUTC+3 (EAT)
Offset all yearUTC+3 (EAT)
Next clock changeNone — this zone does not change clocks
CountryTanzania (TZ)
Population2,698,652
Coordinates-6.82, 39.27
Places in this zone16

Best hours to reach Dar es Salaam

From New York
7 hours behind Dar es Salaam · their morning
16:00–18:00
09:00–11:00 EDT
From San Francisco
10 hours behind Dar es Salaam · their morning
19:00–21:00
09:00–11:00 PDT
From Bengaluru
2½ hours ahead of Dar es Salaam · their morning
09:00–16:00
11:00–18:00 IST

Local times in Dar es Salaam on the left, the caller’s own clock on the right. Computed from the working-hour overlap for today’s offsets.

About time in Dar es Salaam

Dar es Salaam keeps East Africa Time, UTC+3 from UTC all year. The offset never changes, so any difference between you and Dar es Salaam moves only when your own clocks do.

Dar es Salaam shares the zone Africa/Dar_es_Salaam with Mwanza, Zanzibar, Arusha, Mbeya, so a time here is also the time there. One canonical page per zone keeps the difference honest: the settlement name changes, the clock does not.

Offsets and daylight saving rules come from the IANA time zone database — see IANA time zone notes for what that data does and does not promise about future dates.

Dar es Salaam converted to other zones

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Cities on the same offset today

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COMMON QUESTIONS

What time is it in Dar es Salaam right now?

The clock at the top of this page reads the current time in Dar es Salaam to the second. Dar es Salaam is on East Africa Time, UTC+3 — the same clock as every other place in the zone Africa/Dar_es_Salaam.

Does Dar es Salaam observe daylight saving time?

No. Dar es Salaam stays on UTC+3 all year, so the difference between you and Dar es Salaam only changes when your own clocks do.

What time zone is Dar es Salaam in?

Dar es Salaam uses the IANA zone Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, currently EAT (UTC+3). Abbreviations are for reading — the zone identifier is the unambiguous name, and it is what you should store in your own systems.

Which other places read the same time as Dar es Salaam?

Mwanza, Zanzibar, Arusha, Mbeya, Morogoro all sit in Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, so they read exactly the same clock, daylight saving changes included.