Current Time in Cairo, Egypt

How Cairo Keeps Time

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

Cairo 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 Cairo at 7:03 am today and sets at 6:15 pm — 11 hours 12 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:39 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (30.04, 31.24), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Cairo has about 14 hours 5 minutes of daylight in June and 10 hours 13 minutes in December. The difference is about 3 hours 52 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

At the current civil offset, Cairo’s longitude corresponds to a difference of about 55 minutes between zone time and longitude-based mean solar time. Today’s calculated solar noon is 12:39 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.

Cairo at a Glance

How Cairo Compares with Other Cities

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

Nearby Listed Cities to Cairo

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 Cairo, because Egypt keeps one zone nationally. Each page adds that city’s own sunrise, sunset and prayer times, which do differ.