CairoEgypt
Current time in Cairo, Egypt
Friday, 25 September 2026
Eastern European Summer TimeUTC+03:00
⛶ Full-screen clockCairo time at a glance
- Country
- Egypt
- Location
- Capital city of Egypt
- Time zone
Africa/Cairo- UTC offset now
UTC+03:00- Current zone label
- EEST
- Next clock change
- 29 October 2026 at 23:00 EET
Cairo time guide
Does Cairo change its clocks?
UTC+03:00.- Standard time
- Eastern European Time, UTC+02:00
- Daylight time
- UTC+03:00 during Egypt’s daylight-saving period
- Time-zone identifier
- Africa/Cairo
- Cairo and London
- Usually 2 hours ahead; the gap can briefly vary around different transition dates
City, governorate and metropolitan area
Cairo Governorate is not the entire metro area
Egypt’s official population estimates are published by governorate and split into urban and rural components. Cairo Governorate is classified as urban, while the continuous Greater Cairo area extends into neighboring Giza and Qalyubia governorates.
Time-zone identity for Cairo
- IANA zone
Africa/Cairo- UTC offset now
- UTC+03:00
- Current zone label
- EEST
- Clock-change status
- An offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Cairo is currently 3 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Next clock change in Cairo
This change comes from the IANA Time Zone Database. It is described as an offset change unless its daylight-saving purpose can be verified.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Cairo
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Africa/Cairo, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
- UTC+03:00 UTC+03:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+02:00 UTC+02:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+03:00 UTC+03:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+02:00 UTC+02:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+03:00 UTC+03:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+02:00 UTC+02:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+03:00 UTC+03:00UTC offset decreased by
Next 5 years
- UTC+02:00 UTC+02:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+03:00 UTC+03:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+02:00 UTC+02:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+03:00 UTC+03:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+02:00 UTC+02:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+03:00 UTC+03:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+02:00 UTC+02:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+03:00 UTC+03:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+02:00 UTC+02:00UTC offset decreased by
- UTC+03:00 UTC+03:00UTC offset decreased by
Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.
Capital city context
About Cairo, capital of Egypt
Cairo is the capital of Egypt. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Egypt
- Administrative area
- Egypt
- Population
- 9,606,916
- Coordinates
- 30.0626° N, 31.2497° E. The elevation is 23 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Cairo
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Cairo. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- Būlāq Abū al ‘IlāCairo, Egypt1.8 km west
Africa/CairoSame local time - Ḩadā’iq al QubbahCairo, Egypt4.3 km northeast
Africa/CairoSame local time - Madīnat an NaşrCairo, Egypt4.9 km east
Africa/CairoSame local time - New CairoCairo, Egypt22 km east
Africa/CairoSame local time - ḨalwānCairo, Egypt25 km south
Africa/CairoSame local time - El ShoroukCairo, Egypt36 km east
Africa/CairoSame local time
Sources for Cairo time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 4 sources
- GeoNames cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.
- Population estimates by governorateCentral Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics of Egypt · Estimates at 2024-01-01 · AccessedOfficial governorate-level urban and rural population estimates.