Timetate
A world clock on a live 3D globe, turned to Cairo.
Egypt · GMT+3
Cairo runs on GMT+3. Add 3 hours to Coordinated Universal Time to get the current time in Cairo.
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24h schedule
Sunrise
06:40
Sunset
18:40
Timezone
Cairo is located in Egypt and uses the Africa/Cairo timezone, currently GMT+3 from UTC. The clocks change on 30 October 2026 to GMT+2. Sunrise is at 06:40 and sunset at 18:40 local time. The coordinates of Cairo are 30.04°N, 31.24°E.
Today Cairo gets 12 hours 0 minutes of daylight. Solar noon — when the sun is highest — falls at 12:40, about 40 minutes after clock noon.
Right now Cairo shares its GMT+3 offset with Moscow, Istanbul, Minsk, Baghdad, Riyadh, Jeddah. Clocks in these places read the same, even where the calendar date differs.
Offices in Cairo work Sunday to Thursday, typically 09:00–17:00 local time. Lunch is usually 14:00–15:00, and a meeting proposed inside it will be moved. The city's economy runs on government, construction, tourism and telecoms, which is who you are most likely to be calling. The weekend is Friday and Saturday, so a Thursday afternoon is the last chance of the week and Sunday is a full day.
The dates that most often break a cross-border schedule are Eid al-Fitr (end of Ramadan), Eid al-Adha (roughly 70 days later), Coptic Christmas (7 January) and Revolution Day (23 July). Expect slow replies during Ramadan, when the working day is shortened.
| From | Gap | Call at (Cairo time) |
|---|---|---|
| 🇿🇼 Harare | −1h | 10:00–17:00 |
| 🇿🇦 Durban | −1h | 10:00–17:00 |
| 🇷🇼 Kigali | −1h | 10:00–17:00 |
| 🇸🇩 Khartoum | −1h | 10:00–17:00 |
| 🇬🇧 London | −3h | 12:00–17:00 |
| 🇺🇸 New York | −7h | 16:00–17:00 |
| 🇸🇬 Singapore | +5h | 09:00–12:00 |
| 🇦🇪 Dubai | +1h | 09:00–16:00 |
Office hours taken as 09:00–17:00 on both sides. A row opens the meeting page for the two cities where one exists, otherwise the converter.
Cairo is in the Africa/Cairo timezone, currently GMT+3.
Yes. Cairo observes daylight saving time. The clocks change on 30 October 2026 to GMT+2.
Cairo is currently GMT+3 from UTC (GMT+3). Clocks change on 30 October 2026.
Right now Cairo is 3 hours ahead of London and 7 hours ahead of New York. The gaps move by an hour when either side changes its clocks.
09:00 in Cairo is 06:00 UTC today, because the city is GMT+3 from UTC.
Today the sun rises in Cairo at 06:40 and sets at 18:40 local time. These times were calculated when this page was built and drift by a few minutes a week.
Times on this page were calculated on .
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