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Current Time in Alexandria, Egypt

Time and Sun Facts for Alexandria

Local time
2:27 am
Date
Sunday, 25 October 2026
Time zone
Africa/Cairo
UTC offset
UTC+3
Daylight saving
In effect now
Next clock change
29 October 2026 — clocks go back
Sunrise
7:09 am
Sunset
6:19 pm
Day length
11 hours 10 minutes
Coordinates
31.20, 29.92

How Alexandria Keeps Time

Alexandria keeps EEST, UTC+3. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Alexandria; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.

Alexandria runs on the Africa/Cairo zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC+3 right now. The clocks change twice a year here: UTC+2 on standard time and UTC+3 while daylight saving is in force. The next change is on 29 October 2026, when clocks go back one hour.

The sun rises in Alexandria at 7:09 am today and sets at 6:19 pm — 11 hours 10 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:44 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (31.20, 29.92), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Alexandria has about 14 hours 11 minutes of daylight in June and 10 hours 7 minutes in December. The difference is about 4 hours 4 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

At the current civil offset, Alexandria’s longitude corresponds to a difference of about 1 hour between zone time and longitude-based mean solar time. Today’s calculated solar noon is 12:44 pm rather than 12:00 on the clock.

The whole of Egypt keeps one time, so the clock on this page is also the clock in Cairo and in every other city listed below.

Alexandria at a Glance

Coordinates31.2000, 29.9200
IANA time zoneAfrica/Cairo
Current UTC offsetUTC+3
Daylight savingObserved seasonally
Sunrise today7:09 am
Sunset today6:19 pm
Solar noon12:44 pm
Daylight today11 hours 10 minutes
Straight-line distance to Cairo181 km
Current clock difference vs CairoSame civil time

How Alexandria Compares with Other Cities

Read the last column as the other city relative to Alexandria. Where either place uses daylight saving, the gap changes for part of the year — the time difference calculator always shows today’s figure.

CityLocal timeCompared with Alexandria
London12:27 am2 hours behind
New York7:27 pm7 hours behind
Los Angeles4:27 pm10 hours behind
Dubai3:27 am1 hour ahead
Karachi4:27 am2 hours ahead
Singapore7:27 am5 hours ahead
Tokyo8:27 am6 hours ahead
Sydney10:27 am8 hours ahead

Nearby Listed Cities to Alexandria

Distances are straight-line geographic distances between the coordinates used by the directory; road or rail distances will be longer.

CityApprox. distanceLocal time
Cairo181 km2:27 am
Giza181 km2:27 am
Port Said226 km2:27 am
Luxor668 km2:27 am
Aswan843 km2:27 am

Other Cities in Egypt

All of these read UTC+3, the same as Alexandria, because Egypt keeps one zone nationally. Each page adds that city’s own sunrise, sunset and prayer times, which do differ.

Questions People Ask

When does Alexandria next change its clocks?

The next transition is 29 October 2026. Use Africa/Cairo in calendar software instead of pinning an event to one fixed UTC offset.

Why is solar noon in Alexandria far from 12:00?

The current civil offset and the city longitude do not place mean solar noon at twelve on the clock. Today the calculated solar noon is 12:44 pm.