Live local time
Cairo, Ägypten
09:02:50 PMSunday, April 26, 2026 · Africa/Cairo

Cairo
Capital and largest city of Egypt
Aktuelle Ortszeit
09:02:50 PM
Sunday, April 26, 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 Cairo right now
Nächster Flughafen
CAI
Cairo International Airport · 15 km
Indexierte Flughäfen
3
Curated airport references available for Ägypten
Snapshot at render time: 09:02:50 PM on Sunday, April 26, 2026 in Cairo (UTC+03:00, EEST).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 17
Day of Year
Day 116
Days Remaining
249
Current weather
24°C, Partly cloudy
Feels like 22°C · Humidity 37% · Wind 5 km/h
Sunrise and sunset
06:16 AM to 07:29 PM
Day length 13h 13m · Solar noon 12:53 PM
Next country holiday
Labour Day
Freitag, 1. Mai 2026 · Public
Population
9.6M
Coordinates
30.06, 31.25
Timezone
Africa/Cairo
Indexierte Flughäfen
3
Capital
Cairo
Languages
Arabic
Currency
EGP (£)
Country area
1,002,450 km²
Read time for Cairo from the Africa/Cairo zone (EEST, UTC+03:00); the city carries roughly 9.6M residents and ranks #1 among curated Ägypten entries.
Geographically, Cairo is at 30.06°N, 31.25°E — that places it in the Northern Hemisphere's subtropics, about 3337 km from the equator, with warmer-half daylight that stretches noticeably in summer.
Today the sun rises around 06:16 AM and sets around 07:29 PM in Cairo — about 13h 13m of daylight. Ägypten observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Būlāq Abū al ‘Ilā (2 km from Cairo) 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 Cairo — worth blocking out for launches or logistics.
Sunday, April 26, 2026
Timezone
EEST
IANA Zone
Africa/Cairo
UTC Offset
UTC+03:00
DST Status
Observing DST
Week Number
Week 17
Day of Year
Day 116
Days Remaining
249
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 Cairo.
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 07:02 PM | -2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 02:02 PM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 11:02 AM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 10:02 PM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 02:02 AM | +5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 03:02 AM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 04:02 AM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 03:02 PM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
Cairo liegt in der Zeitzone Africa/Cairo (EEST), mit einem UTC-Versatz von +03:00.
Ja, Cairo beachtet derzeit die Sommerzeit (DST).
Der aktuelle UTC-Versatz für Cairo ist UTC+03:00.
Cairo sits at 30.06°N, 31.25°E in Ägypten, with about 9.6M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Cairo is Dubai, about 2,422 km away as the crow flies.
Būlāq Abū al ‘Ilā is the closest indexed city, roughly 2 km from Cairo.
Cairo International Airport (CAI) is the closest curated airport reference, about 15 km from Cairo.
Labour Day is the next upcoming holiday in Ägypten, on Freitag, 1. Mai 2026.
Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate. It is home to more than 9.8 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world, and the Middle East. The Greater Cairo metropolitan area is one of the largest in the world by population with over 22 million people. Areas of what would become Cairo were inhabited from pre-dynastic and early-dynastic ancient Egypt c. 6000 years ago, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are today within the city.
From Cairo the nearest of our reference hubs are Dubai (~2,422 km), London (~3,511 km), Singapore (~8,259 km), while Sydney sits about 14,416 km away — useful framing when someone needs a feel for whether a meeting is a regional hop or an intercontinental call.
Cairo sits inside Ägypten — the Northern Africa subregion, capital Cairo, languages Arabic, currency EGP (£).
Būlāq Abū al ‘Ilā (2 km), Ḩadā’iq al Qubbah (4 km), Madīnat an Naşr (5 km), Shubrā al Khaymah (7 km) are the nearest cities WorldClockTools indexes around Cairo — that's the cluster to use when scheduling spills past the city limits.
Upcoming country holiday signals around Cairo: Labour Day, June 30 Revolution, Revolution Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Ägypten.
Closest curated airport references from Cairo: CAI Cairo (15 km), SPX Al Jiza (34 km), HBE Alexandria (177 km).
In 2025, A car ramming attack at a Lapu-Lapu Day festival kills 11 people and injures at least 30 in Vancouver, Canada.
Egypt is a useful bridge market for MENA scheduling and travel planning.
Cairo International AirportCAI
Cairo · 15 km from Cairo
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Sphinx International AirportSPX
Al Jiza · 34 km from Cairo
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 48m
Alexandria International AirportHBE
Alexandria · 177 km from Cairo
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 59m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
On this day
2025: A car ramming attack at a Lapu-Lapu Day festival kills 11 people and injures at least 30 in Vancouver, Canada.
2015: Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97.7% of the vote, one of the biggest vote shares in Kazakhstan's history.
Cedar Revolution: Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
Coordination pulse
0 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now