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Kenya · GMT+3
Nairobi runs on GMT+3. Add 3 hours to Coordinated Universal Time to get the current time in Nairobi.
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24h schedule
Sunrise
05:52
Sunset
18:43
Nairobi is located in Kenya and uses the Africa/Nairobi timezone, currently GMT+3 from UTC. Nairobi does not observe daylight saving time. Sunrise is at 05:52 and sunset at 18:43 local time. The coordinates of Nairobi are 1.29°S, 36.82°E.
Today Nairobi gets 12 hours 51 minutes of daylight. Solar noon — when the sun is highest — falls at 12:17, about 17 minutes after clock noon.
Right now Nairobi 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 Nairobi work Monday to Friday, typically 08:00–17:00 local time. Lunch is usually 13:00–14:00, and a meeting proposed inside it will be moved. The city's economy runs on fintech, development agencies, agriculture export and telecoms, which is who you are most likely to be calling. The regional hub for East Africa, with a large NGO and agency community that keeps European reporting cycles.
The dates that most often break a cross-border schedule are Madaraka Day (1 June), Mashujaa Day (20 October), Jamhuri Day (12 December) and Christmas (25–26 December). Expect slow replies during mid-December to early January.
| From | Gap | Call at (Nairobi time) |
|---|---|---|
| 🇪🇹 Addis Ababa | same time | 09:00–17:00 |
| 🇹🇿 Dar es Salaam | same time | 09:00–17:00 |
| 🇺🇬 Kampala | same time | 09:00–17:00 |
| 🇲🇿 Maputo | −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.
Nairobi is in the Africa/Nairobi timezone, currently GMT+3.
No. Nairobi does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset is always GMT+3.
Nairobi is currently GMT+3 from UTC (GMT+3).
Right now Nairobi 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 Nairobi is 06:00 UTC today, because the city is GMT+3 from UTC.
Today the sun rises in Nairobi at 05:52 and sets at 18:43 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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