Time in Cairo
Egypt · Africa/Cairo · latitude 30.04°
Reading your clock…
Cairo changes its clocks twice a year
Standard time is UTC+02:00 and daylight saving time is UTC+03:00. The shift is 1 hour, and it is the reason the distance between Cairo and anywhere else is not a single number.
| Date | Local time | Change | New offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, 29 October 2026 | 00:00 → 23:00 | Back 60 min | UTC+02:00 |
| Friday, 30 April 2027 | 00:00 → 01:00 | Forward 60 min | UTC+03:00 |
| Thursday, 28 October 2027 | 00:00 → 23:00 | Back 60 min | UTC+02:00 |
Time difference from Cairo
Where a range is shown, the gap genuinely changes during the year. That is not rounding or hedging — it is two governments moving their clocks on different weekends.
| City | Difference now | Across the year |
|---|---|---|
| London | 2 hours behind | −3h / −2h / −1h |
| New York | 7 hours behind | −7h / −6h |
| Los Angeles | 10 hours behind | −10h / −9h |
| Chicago | 8 hours behind | −8h / −7h |
| Toronto | 7 hours behind | −7h / −6h |
| Paris | 1 hour behind | −2h / −1h / 0 |
| Berlin | 1 hour behind | −2h / −1h / 0 |
| Dubai | 1 hour ahead | +1h / +2h |
| Mumbai | 2 hours 30 minutes ahead | +2h30 / +3h30 |
| Singapore | 5 hours ahead | +5h / +6h |
| Hong Kong | 5 hours ahead | +5h / +6h |
| Tokyo | 6 hours ahead | +6h / +7h |
| Sydney | 7 hours ahead | +7h / +8h / +9h |
| Auckland | 9 hours ahead | +9h / +10h / +11h |
| São Paulo | 6 hours behind | −6h / −5h |
| UTC | 3 hours behind | −3h / −2h |
Daylight in Cairo through the year
From about 10.2 hours in December to 14.1 hours in June. This is the part a plain clock leaves out: 17:00 is a bright evening in one month and long dark in another.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 06:56 | 17:27 | 10h 31m |
| February | 06:36 | 17:53 | 11h 17m |
| March | 06:05 | 18:12 | 12h 7m |
| April | 05:28 | 18:31 | 13h 3m |
| May | 05:04 | 18:50 | 13h 46m |
| June | 04:59 | 19:04 | 14h 5m |
| July | 05:12 | 19:01 | 13h 49m |
| August | 05:31 | 18:37 | 13h 6m |
| September | 05:47 | 18:00 | 12h 13m |
| October | 06:05 | 17:24 | 11h 19m |
| November | 06:30 | 17:03 | 10h 33m |
| December | 06:52 | 17:05 | 10h 13m |
Daylight length is accurate. The clock times of sunrise and sunset assume each city sits at the centre of its time zone, which can put them up to about an hour and a quarter out for places near a zone's edge — Madrid being the standard example. Day length is unaffected.
Questions
About time in Cairo
What time zone is Cairo in?
Cairo uses the IANA time zone Africa/Cairo, which is UTC+02:00 in standard time and UTC+03:00 while daylight saving is in force.
Does Cairo observe daylight saving time?
Yes. Clocks in Cairo move by 1 hour, and the next change is on Thursday, 29 October 2026.
Why does the time difference to Cairo keep changing?
Because the two places do not change their clocks on the same weekend, and in opposite hemispheres they change in opposite directions. London is a clear example: it sits 3 hours behind, then 2 hours behind, then 1 hour behind across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Cairo get?
Around 14.1 hours at the longest, in June, and about 10.2 hours at the shortest, in December. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Cairo's latitude of 30.04° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.