Dhahaban (Arabic: ذهبان Dhahabān), also Dhahban, is a town in Yemen, located on the outskirts of the capital Sanaa in Bani al-Harith District of Amanat al-Asimah Governorate.

[1] It is on the Sanaa plain, a bit south of the point where the Wadi Zahr opens out onto the plain.

[2] Before 2015, Dhahaban's power station was the main source of power in the Sanaa metro area, although the city's main supplier of electricity was the power plant in Ma'rib.

[3] According to the 10th-century writer al-Hamdani, Dhahaban was named after Dhahabān b. Nawf Dhī Thaʽlabān b. Sharaḥbīl, of the tribe of Himyar.

Wilson described Dhahaban as a small village and wrote that, while the name was vocalized as Dhahbān by al-Hamdani, as well as by the modern writers Muhammad al-Akwa and Hermann von Wissmann, "the pronunciation of this name is now closer to Dhahabān.