Mek'eleEthiopia
Mek'ele time at a glance
- Country
- Ethiopia
- Location
- City in Tigray
- Time zone
Africa/Addis_Ababa- UTC offset now
UTC+03:00- Current zone label
- GMT+3
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Weather now
Weather in Mek'ele
Conditions near Mek'ele and a 3-day forecast. Local conditions can differ across large urban areas, mountains and coastlines.
Cloudy
- Feels like
- 17°C
- Humidity
- 81%
- Wind
- 3.6 km/h NW
- Recent precipitation
- 0 mm
3-day forecast
- Partly Cloudy16°C to 27°C36% chance of precipitationWind up to 29.9 km/h
- Thundery outbreaks in nearby16°C to 27°C19% chance of precipitationWind up to 29.2 km/h
- Patchy rain nearby16°C to 26°C57% chance of precipitationWind up to 28.1 km/h
Forecast valid from 05:30 local time. Updated 2026-08-31T02:40:34.553Z; refresh due by 2026-08-31T02:55:34.553Z.
Time-zone identity for Mek'ele
- IANA zone
Africa/Addis_Ababa- UTC offset now
- UTC+03:00
- Current zone label
- GMT+3
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Mek'ele is currently 3 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Mek'ele
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Sunday, 5 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Mek'ele
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Africa/Addis_Ababa, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the previous 5 years.
Next 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the next 5 years.
Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.
Location context
About Mek'ele
Location details for Mek'ele in Tigray, Ethiopia.
- Administrative area
- Tigray, Ethiopia
- Population
- 457,900
- Coordinates
- 13.4967° N, 39.4753° E. The elevation is 2,068 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Mek'ele
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Mek'ele. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- DoloTigray, Ethiopia18 km east
Africa/Addis_AbabaSame local time - Wik’roTigray, Ethiopia36 km northeast
Africa/Addis_AbabaSame local time - Ābīy ĀdīTigray, Ethiopia55 km west
Africa/Addis_AbabaSame local time - Idaga HamusTigray, Ethiopia77 km north
Africa/Addis_AbabaSame local time - Maych’ewTigray, Ethiopia79 km south
Africa/Addis_AbabaSame local time - ĀdīgratTigray, Ethiopia87 km north
Africa/Addis_AbabaSame local time
Sources for Mek'ele time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 4 sources
- GeoNames cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.
- Weather and Geolocation APIWeatherAPI.com · Forecast API v1; free plan · WeatherAPI.com terms; commercial and non-commercial use permitted by plan · AccessedCurrent weather conditions, the next 24 hours and a three-day forecast.