Local time in Egypt
Arab Republic of Egypt
Current local time in Egypt (EET (UTC+2)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — Cairo
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Differences are relative to Cairo, Egypt, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Egypt
- Standard label
- EET (UTC+2)
- Standard offset (Cairo)
- UTC+2
- Daylight saving time
- Observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- Cairo
- IANA zones
- Africa/Cairo
Egypt uses EET (UTC+2) as its standard time. Clocks move forward in summer for daylight saving time, so the local offset alternates seasonally around the UTC+2 standard. Times on this page are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database, so they always match the real current time in Egypt.
Sunrise and sunset in Cairo
At 30.0° north, Cairo gets 14 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 10 h 12 min around the December solstice — a difference of 3 h 52 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 06:51 | 12:07 | 17:23 | 10 h 31 min |
| 21 February | 06:31 | 12:10 | 17:49 | 11 h 18 min |
| 21 March | 05:59 | 12:03 | 18:07 | 12 h 08 min |
| 21 April | 05:23 | 11:54 | 18:26 | 13 h 03 min |
| 21 May | 05:59 | 12:53 | 19:46 | 13 h 46 min |
| 21 June | 05:55 | 12:58 | 20:00 | 14 h 05 min |
| 21 July | 06:08 | 13:02 | 19:56 | 13 h 48 min |
| 21 August | 06:27 | 12:59 | 19:32 | 13 h 05 min |
| 21 September | 06:43 | 12:49 | 18:55 | 12 h 11 min |
| 21 October | 07:01 | 12:40 | 18:19 | 11 h 18 min |
| 21 November | 06:26 | 11:42 | 16:58 | 10 h 32 min |
| 21 December | 06:48 | 11:54 | 17:00 | 10 h 12 min |
Calculated for Cairo (30.04°, 31.24°; coordinates from Wikidata) with the standard solar-position formulas used by NOAA, for a sea-level horizon. Results are accurate to about a minute; hills, buildings and altitude shift what you actually see. Times change by only a minute or two from year to year.
Daylight saving time in Egypt
Clocks in Cairo change twice a year. Clock changes in 2026 and 2027, in local time:
- ForwardFriday 24 April 2026
Clocks go forward 1 hour: 00:00 becomes 01:00 (UTC+2 → UTC+3) - BackThursday 29 October 2026
Clocks go back 1 hour: 00:00 becomes 23:00 (UTC+3 → UTC+2) - ForwardFriday 30 April 2027
Clocks go forward 1 hour: 00:00 becomes 01:00 (UTC+2 → UTC+3) - BackThursday 28 October 2027
Clocks go back 1 hour: 00:00 becomes 23:00 (UTC+3 → UTC+2)
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.