Current time in Atbara, Sudan right now

It is 1:42 am in Atbara, Sudan 🇸🇩 right now, on Sunday, September 27, 2026. The city keeps Africa/Khartoum, which is UTC+2 at UTC+2, so Atbara is 2 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 11:42 pm. The sun rose in Atbara at 5:34 am and sets at 5:36 pm, which is 12 hours 2 minutes of daylight.

What time is it in Atbara right now?

The time in Atbara, Sudan is 1:42 am, 01:42 on a 24 hour clock, on Sunday September 27, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Africa/Khartoum rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.

Atbara sits at 17.70 degrees north and 33.99 degrees east, inside the tropics, north of the equator and 1,968 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 30.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 4.0 degrees east of that line. Those 4.0 degrees are worth 15 minutes 57 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 11:35 am rather than on the stroke of twelve.

Atbara time zone and UTC offset

The IANA zone for Atbara, Sudan is Africa/Khartoum. Right now it is running at UTC+2 and the abbreviation in force is UTC+2. Atbara does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC+2 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving Atbara ever needs a seasonal footnote.

Daylight hours in Atbara today

The sun rose in Atbara at 5:34 am and sets at 5:36 pm, which is 12 hours 2 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Atbara, is at 11:35 am, which is 25 minutes before clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.71 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 70.6 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.

The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Atbara, which works from the same coordinates.

Where Atbara is on the map

The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.

Time difference between Atbara and major cities

Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Atbara.

Best time to call Atbara

Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.

Other cities in Sudan

We cover 23 cities in Sudan. These are the ones nearest to Atbara, with the time on their clocks right now.

Cities on Africa/Khartoum time

23 of our cities keep Africa/Khartoum, so every one of them reads 1:42 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Atbara. Nearest first:

Moon phase over Atbara tonight

The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 15.8 days into its cycle and about 99% lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 at 6:11 am Khartoum time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 5:49 pm. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Atbara clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.

When the clocks change in Atbara

There is no clock change scheduled in Africa/Khartoum within the next 400 days, so Atbara stays at UTC+2 for the whole of that stretch.

That makes Atbara an easy city to schedule against: a meeting fixed at a given hour here holds its relationship to UTC all year, and only the other end of the call can move.

How far Atbara is from other cities

Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Atbara is Ad-Damir, Sudan at 12 km, and the furthest is Suva, Fiji at 16,261 km, which is 81% of the way to being exactly opposite.

The antipode of Atbara

Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Atbara, Sudan and you come out at 17.70 degrees south, 146.01 degrees west. That point is in the South Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Suva, Fiji, 3,754 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 11:42 am on Sunday.

The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 17.70 degrees north becomes 17.70 degrees south, and 33.99 degrees east becomes 146.01 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Atbara is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-10, roughly twelve hours from Atbara, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.

Sunrise and sunset in Atbara

Today the sun rises in Atbara at 5:34 am and sets at 5:36 pm, giving 12 hours 2 minutes of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Atbara.

Sun and moon in Atbara today

The sun is up in Atbara for 12 hours 2 minutes today, from 5:34 am to 5:36 pm. The moon sets in Atbara at 6:00 am and comes up again at 6:02 pm. The next phase is the last quarter on October 3, 2026. The moon is full, or as near to it as makes no difference, and the whole of the face turned towards us is lit.

Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.

Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.

Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.

Prayer times in Atbara

Seven days from September 27, 2026, computed for Atbara, Sudan at 17.70 degrees north, 33.99 degrees east, on the clock of Africa/Khartoum. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.

Dhuhr is solar noon at Atbara, Sudan, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.

Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.

Qibla direction from Atbara

From Atbara, Sudan the qibla is 55.0 degrees on a true compass, which is northeast, or 35.0 degrees north of due east. The Kaaba is 738 km away, 459 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Atbara, Sudan to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.

The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Atbara, Sudan before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.

Atbara time now: common questions

What time is it in Atbara, Sudan right now?

1:42 am on Sunday September 27, 2026. Atbara runs on UTC+2, UTC+2.

What time zone is Atbara in?

Africa/Khartoum, currently UTC+2 at UTC+2. 23 of the cities on this site keep that zone.

What is the UTC offset for Atbara?

UTC+2 at this instant. It is UTC+2 all year round, with no seasonal change.

Does Atbara observe daylight saving time?

No. Atbara stays on UTC+2 for the whole year.

How many hours ahead or behind is Atbara of New York?

Atbara is 6 hours ahead of New York, where it is 7:42 pm right now.

What time does the sun set in Atbara today?

5:36 pm, after a sunrise at 5:34 am and 12 hours 2 minutes of daylight.

What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Atbara?

17.70 degrees south, 146.01 degrees west, in the South Pacific Ocean.

When is the best time to call Atbara from London?

Between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm in Atbara, which is 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in London.

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