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Idkū, Ägypten
04:00:35 AMWednesday, April 29, 2026 · Africa/Cairo

RAF Idku
Reference image used to make the Idkū time page feel like a place, not just a timezone label.
Aktuelle Ortszeit
04:00:35 AM
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Zeitzone
EEST
Africa/Cairo · UTC+03:00
Nächster Feiertag
Labour Day
Freitag, 1. Mai 2026 · Public
Geschäftsüberschneidung jetzt
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Idkū right now
Nächster Flughafen
HBE
Alexandria International Airport · 71 km
Indexierte Flughäfen
3
Curated airport references available for Ägypten
Snapshot at render time: 04:00:35 AM on Wednesday, April 29, 2026 in Idkū (UTC+03:00, EEST).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
Current weather
17°C, Partly cloudy
Feels like 18°C · Humidity 90% · Wind 7 km/h
Sunrise and sunset
06:15 AM to 07:36 PM
Day length 13h 21m · Solar noon 12:56 PM
Next country holiday
Labour Day
Freitag, 1. Mai 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Idkū local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
CAA Supreme Court Final Constitutional Hearing
judicialDienstag, 5. Mai 2026
6 days to go
Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower 2026 Peak
spaceMittwoch, 6. Mai 2026
7 days to go
Code with Claude San Francisco 2026
keynoteMittwoch, 6. Mai 2026
7 days to go
Mother's Day (US) 2026
festival-secularSonntag, 10. Mai 2026
11 days to go
Gemini 3 Launch (rumored at Google I/O)
release-techDienstag, 12. Mai 2026
13 days to go
48th ASEAN Summit — Cebu
politicalFreitag, 15. Mai 2026
16 days to go
Population
177.2K
Coordinates
31.31, 30.30
Timezone
Africa/Cairo
Indexierte Flughäfen
3
Capital
Cairo
Languages
Arabic
Currency
EGP (£)
Country area
1,002,450 km²
For Ägypten, Idkū (rank #40 by population in this dataset) reads EEST, UTC+03:00 on the IANA zone Africa/Cairo, and the city's roughly 177.2K residents make it a practical scheduling anchor.
Geographically, Idkū is at 31.31°N, 30.30°E — that places it in the Northern Hemisphere's subtropics, about 3475 km from the equator, with warmer-half daylight that stretches noticeably in summer.
Today the sun rises around 06:15 AM and sets around 07:36 PM in Idkū — about 13h 21m of daylight. Ägypten observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Rosetta (15 km from Idkū) gives this page its nearest commuter and travel cluster, with 3 curated airport pages indexed for Ägypten.
On 2026-05-01, Labour Day is the next holiday flag for Idkū — worth blocking out for launches or logistics.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Timezone
EEST
IANA Zone
Africa/Cairo
UTC Offset
UTC+03:00
DST Status
Observing DST
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+03:00
Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan, Syria
Other cities in this timezone
London
-2h
New York
-7h
Los Angeles
-10h
Dubai
+1h
Singapore
+5h
Tokyo
+6h
Sydney
+7h
São Paulo
-6h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Idkū.
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 02:00 AM | -2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 09:00 PM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 06:00 PM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 05:00 AM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 09:00 AM | +5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 10:00 AM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 11:00 AM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 10:00 PM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
Idkū liegt in der Zeitzone Africa/Cairo (EEST), mit einem UTC-Versatz von +03:00.
Ja, Idkū beachtet derzeit die Sommerzeit (DST).
Der aktuelle UTC-Versatz für Idkū ist UTC+03:00.
Idkū sits at 31.31°N, 30.30°E in Ägypten, with about 177.2K residents (rank #40 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Idkū is Dubai, about 2,532 km away as the crow flies.
Rosetta is the closest indexed city, roughly 15 km from Idkū.
Alexandria International Airport (HBE) is the closest curated airport reference, about 71 km from Idkū.
Labour Day is the next upcoming holiday in Ägypten, on Freitag, 1. Mai 2026.
Royal Air Force Idku or more simply RAF Idku (LG-229) was a World War II Royal Air Force station located in Idku, Egypt. It was established in 1941 and served as a strategic base of the Royal Air Force in the Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II, before abandonment in 1945.
From Idkū the nearest of our reference hubs are Dubai (~2,532 km), London (~3,346 km), Singapore (~8,368 km), while Sydney sits about 14,549 km away — useful framing when someone needs a feel for whether a meeting is a regional hop or an intercontinental call.
Idkū sits inside Ägypten — the Northern Africa subregion, capital Cairo, languages Arabic, currency EGP (£).
Rosetta (15 km), Muţūbas (21 km), ‘Izbat ‘Alī as Sayyid (22 km), Abū Ḩummuş (24 km) are the nearest cities WorldClockTools indexes around Idkū — that's the cluster to use when scheduling spills past the city limits.
Upcoming country holiday signals around Idkū: Labour Day, June 30 Revolution, Revolution Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Ägypten.
Closest curated airport references from Idkū: HBE Alexandria (71 km), SPX Al Jiza (145 km), CAI Cairo (169 km).
In 2015, A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
Egypt is a useful bridge market for MENA scheduling and travel planning.
Alexandria International AirportHBE
Alexandria · 71 km from Idkū
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 50m
Sphinx International AirportSPX
Al Jiza · 145 km from Idkū
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 56m
Cairo International AirportCAI
Cairo · 169 km from Idkū
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 58m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
On this day
2015: A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
2013: A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people.
2013: National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing all seven people on board.
Coordination pulse
0 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now