City comparison · time difference and converter
San Francisco is 10 hours behind Addis Ababa right now. Addis Ababa sits in Ethiopia on Addis Ababa; San Francisco sits in United States on Los Angeles. They are roughly 14,455 km apart (8,982 mi), a flight of about 18h 00m. Addis Ababa's metro holds around 3.9 million people; San Francisco's around 4.7 million.
Slot 1
00:00 / 14:00
Addis Ababa / San Francisco
Partial overlapSlot 2
01:00 / 15:00
Addis Ababa / San Francisco
Partial overlapSlot 3
02:00 / 16:00
Addis Ababa / San Francisco
Partial overlapEach row is one hour in Addis Ababa. Green rows are inside business hours in both cities; amber means only one side is at their desk; grey rows fall outside business hours in both.
Juneteenth
San Francisco, United States
Fri, Jun 19
Great-circle distance
14,455 km
(8,982 mi)
Approximate flight
18h 00m
850 km/h cruise + 1h taxi/climb/descent
Jet lag
10h
Roughly 1 day to adjust per timezone crossed
The heatmap gives you the shape of the day. If you need to convert one specific hour — say a customer call or a release window — open the converter with both cities already loaded.
Open in converter →The difference between Addis Ababa and San Francisco is not really a number, it's a daily rhythm. San Francisco is 10 hours behind Addis Ababa on the clock today, but the lived version is that Addis Ababa is ahead in the calendar, so by the time San Francisco comes online, half of Addis Ababa's day is already gone. That gap, more than the raw offset, is what teams have to design around.
In Addis Ababa, the working day picks up earliest in the financial districts — Addis Ababa's downtown core wakes early and breaks for lunch at the usual hour. The mood in San Francisco is its own story: SoMa and FiDi quiet around 18:00, with Mission bars taking the after-work crowd. If you are scheduling between the two, the heatmap above marks the rows where both patterns line up.
Daylight saving is the other thing to keep an eye on. Ethiopia either observes DST or holds a fixed offset year-round; United States shifts on the second Sunday of March and the first Sunday of November. When the two changes are weeks apart, the offset between Addis Ababa and San Francisco is one hour off the usual for that stretch — a cliff that catches recurring calendar invites unless your calendar app rebases them automatically. Pin the meeting to a city, not an offset, and the tool handles the rest.
For travellers, the 18h 00m flight is the short version of the story. The longer one is jet lag: roughly one day of adjustment per timezone crossed, which means a trip across the 10-hour gap costs about 10 groggy days on each side. Pilots and cabin crew swear by morning sunlight and an early walk; whatever your routine, the wall-clock numbers above are the source of truth for your first morning in the new city.