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
| Coordinates | 31.2000, 29.9200 |
|---|---|
| IANA time zone | Africa/Cairo |
| Current UTC offset | UTC+3 |
| Daylight saving | Observed seasonally |
| Sunrise today | 7:09 am |
| Sunset today | 6:19 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:44 pm |
| Daylight today | 11 hours 10 minutes |
| Straight-line distance to Cairo | 181 km |
| Current clock difference vs Cairo | Same 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.
| City | Local time | Compared with Alexandria |
|---|---|---|
| London | 12:27 am | 2 hours behind |
| New York | 7:27 pm | 7 hours behind |
| Los Angeles | 4:27 pm | 10 hours behind |
| Dubai | 3:27 am | 1 hour ahead |
| Karachi | 4:27 am | 2 hours ahead |
| Singapore | 7:27 am | 5 hours ahead |
| Tokyo | 8:27 am | 6 hours ahead |
| Sydney | 10:27 am | 8 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.
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.
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