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Muhafazat Hadramaout, Yemen

Muhafazat Hadramaout keeps UTC+3 all year without daylight saving time. The governorate extends across coast, plateau and inland valleys, so sunrise should be calculated for the particular city rather than the region as a whole.

Mukalla, Yemen

3:24:27 AM

Saturday, 17 October 2026

UTC+3 · Asia/Aden

Time and sun data for Mukalla — the largest city of Muhafazat Hadramaout

The sun in Mukalla

Sunrise 5:36 AM Solar noon 11:30 AM Sunset 5:24 PM Daylight 11 h 48 min Night 12 h 12 min Civil twilight 5:14 AM – 5:45 PM

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Current time in Muhafazat Hadramaout, Yemen

Local civil time is Arabia Standard Time, three hours ahead of UTC. Digital services normally represent it with the IANA identifier Asia/Aden. The same rule applies from the Arabian Sea coast to the interior of Hadramaut, and clocks do not undergo a seasonal change.

A UTC timestamp can therefore be converted by adding three hours. Travel within the governorate requires no clock adjustment, despite the long distances separating coastal and valley communities. When arranging a call abroad, verify the other participant’s current offset because their daylight-saving rules may change the difference.

Hadramaut is broad enough for a long journey, but not broad enough to require a second watch.

Major cities of coast and valley

Mukalla is the governorate’s capital and leading coastal city. Hadramaut’s urban geography also has a distinct inland group in Wadi Hadramaut, where Seiyun, Tarim and Shibam are prominent centres. Ash Shihr is another major coastal city. This coast-and-valley pattern is more informative than treating every settlement as part of a single compact urban area.

Mukalla, the capital and principal seaport Seiyun, a major centre in Wadi Hadramaut Tarim, another important valley city Ash Shihr, a coastal city east of Mukalla Shibam, a historic town in the inland valley

Population tables may rank these places differently depending on their dates and boundaries. A city, municipal district and surrounding settlement area can yield different totals. None of those definitions affects timekeeping: each place follows UTC+3 and uses the same calendar date at any given moment.

Sunrise from Mukalla to the valley

The region’s geographic breadth makes location important in sunrise calculations. An eastern settlement generally reaches sunrise before a western one at a similar latitude. Seasonal movement changes the clock time and day length, while differences in latitude create further variation between northern interior sites and the southern coast.

The physical horizon also changes the experience. Mukalla faces a coastal landscape but is backed by steep terrain. Inland communities sit among plateaus and valley walls. A standard sunrise result describes the Sun crossing an idealized horizon; a nearby escarpment can postpone the first direct rays visible from the ground.

Select Mukalla coordinates for a coastal appointment there, Seiyun or Tarim for the central valley, and the exact destination for remote travel. Confirm that the result is expressed in Asia/Aden time rather than UTC. For photography, navigation or fieldwork, distinguish astronomical sunrise from first visible sunlight at a site with an obstructed horizon.

Questions and answers

Does Mukalla have a different time from Seiyun?: No. Both cities, along with the rest of Hadramaut, use UTC+3.
Is daylight saving time observed in Hadramaut?: No. Local clocks retain the same offset throughout the year.
Which sunrise location should I select?: Choose the nearest city or use the site’s coordinates. A single value for this extensive governorate is less precise.