Indexed entity
Cairo is the cairo-EG record in Egypt: country slug egypt, city slug cairo, ISO EG, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Cairo.
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Live local time
Cairo, Egypt
01:01:33 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Cairo
Quick answer
It is currently 01:01:33 PM (EEST, UTC+03:00) in Cairo, Egypt — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
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3-day forecast
Tue
31°C
19°C
Wed
31°C
19°C
Thu
33°C
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In 30 days
ثورة 30 يونيو (June 30 Revolution)
Thu, Jul 2, 2026
PublicIn 51 days
عيد ثورة 23 يوليو (Revolution Day)
Thu, Jul 23, 2026
PublicIn 126 days
عيد القوات المسلحة (Armed Forces Day)
Tue, Oct 6, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Egyptian Pound
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Today
Sunrise
05:54 AM
Sunset
07:52 PM
Day length
13h 58m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Cairo, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:01 AM UTC.
Current local time
01:01:33 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
EEST
Africa/Cairo · UTC+03:00
Next holiday
June 30 Revolution
Thursday, July 2, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Cairo right now
Nearest airport
CAI
Cairo International Airport · 15 km
Indexed airports
3
Curated airport references available for Egypt
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Cairo, Egypt.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 13:01 GMT+3
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Cairo is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+03:00
Zone label
GMT+3
London
11:01 AM / -2h
Dubai
02:01 PM / +1h
Schedule risk
June 30 Revolution on Thursday, July 2, 2026
Travel cue
CAI Cairo, 15 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:54 AM to 07:52 PM, with solar noon around 12:53 PM and total daylight of 13h 58m.
Mapped location
30.06°N, 31.25°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:01 AM / -2h
Good live-call window with Cairo right now.
New York
06:01 AM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:01 AM / -10h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:01 PM / +1h
Good live-call window with Cairo right now.
Singapore
06:01 PM / +5h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Cairo.
CAI · Cairo International Airport
Cairo
SPX · Sphinx International Airport
Al Jiza
HBE · Alexandria International Airport
Alexandria
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Cairo for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+03:00; seasonal offset, UTC+02:00 in January and UTC+03:00 in July.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Cairo right now.
Check local interruptions
June 30 Revolution on Thursday, July 2, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: CAI Cairo, 15 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
Next detected clock change: October 29, 2026, moving back from 2026-10-29 23:59 (GMT+3) to 2026-10-29 23:00 (GMT+2).
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Cairo has a detected clock-change edge. Re-check recurring meetings within two weeks of October 29, 2026, especially if the other city does not change clocks on the same weekend.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Cairo.
Canonical route
/time/egypt/cairo/
Catalog identity
cairo-EG · EG · Africa
Coordinate cell
30.06°N, 31.25°E · lat 30.063 · lon 31.250 · cell 3006:3125
Population record
9,606,916 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Africa/Cairo · GMT+3 · UTC+03:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+03:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Shubrā al Khaymah, Egypt · 7 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 2,422 km
Closest airport references
CAI Cairo 15 km · SPX Al Jiza 34 km · HBE Alexandria 177 km
Zone peer roster
Alexandria, Egypt · Giza, Egypt · Shubrā al Khaymah, Egypt
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Cairo: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Cairo is the cairo-EG record in Egypt: country slug egypt, city slug cairo, ISO EG, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Cairo.
30.06°N, 31.25°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 30 and longitude band 31; exact decimal pair 30.06263, 31.24967.
Egypt: official name Arab Republic of Egypt; capital Cairo; region Africa; subregion Northern Africa; country population 107,271,260; area 1,002,450 km²; languages Arabic; currencies EGP Egyptian pound. This is the country layer behind the Cairo clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Egypt: Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Palestine and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan and the Sahara to the south, and Libya to the west. The Gulf of Aqaba in the northeast separates Egypt from Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Cairo is the capital, largest city, and leading cultural centre, while Alexandria is the second-largest city and an important hub of industry and tourism. With over 107 million inhabitants, Egypt is the most populous country in the Arab world, third-most populous country in Africa, and 15th-most populated in the world. Source: Wikipedia.
Shubrā al Khaymah [shubra-al-khaymah-EG, EG, Africa/Cairo, 7 km]; Giza [giza-EG, EG, Africa/Cairo, 7 km]; Alexandria [alexandria-EG, EG, Africa/Cairo, 180 km]; Khān Yūnis [khan-yunis-PS, PS, Asia/Hebron, 325 km]; Gaza [gaza-PS, PS, Asia/Hebron, 346 km]; Jabālyā [jabalya-PS, PS, Asia/Hebron, 349 km]; Tel Aviv [tel-aviv-IL, IL, Asia/Jerusalem, 404 km]; Jerusalem [jerusalem-IL, IL, Asia/Jerusalem, 423 km]
Cairo is part of this indexed country cluster: Cairo [cairo-EG, Africa/Cairo, pop 9,606,916]; Alexandria [alexandria-EG, Africa/Cairo, pop 5,263,542]; Giza [giza-EG, Africa/Cairo, pop 4,367,343]; Shubrā al Khaymah [shubra-al-khaymah-EG, Africa/Cairo, pop 1,240,289].
Dubai 2,422 km; London 3,511 km; Singapore 8,259 km; New York 9,022 km; Tokyo 9,560 km; São Paulo 10,222 km; Los Angeles 12,200 km; Sydney 14,416 km
CAI Cairo International Airport in Cairo [EG, 15 km]; SPX Sphinx International Airport in Al Jiza [EG, 34 km]; HBE Alexandria International Airport in Alexandria [EG, 177 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include CAI Cairo International Airport in Cairo [EG]; HBE Alexandria International Airport in Alexandria [EG]; SPX Sphinx International Airport in Al Jiza [EG].
Cairo renders Jun 2, 2026 · 13:01 GMT+3; GMT+3 at UTC+03:00; January UTC+02:00; July UTC+03:00; next holiday June 30 Revolution on 2026-07-02.
This evidence pack keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Cairo.
Cairo is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained Egypt city pages. The route is /time/egypt/cairo/ and the city id is cairo-EG.
Cairo has 16 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Cairo is pinned at 30.06°N, 31.25°E; Shubrā al Khaymah (7 km); Dubai (2,422 km).
Africa/Cairo resolves to seasonal offset split: UTC+02:00 in January and UTC+03:00 in July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Egypt.
CAI Cairo International Airport (15 km) · June 30 Revolution (Thursday, July 2, 2026) · 3 country airport references · 7 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Cairo uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Cairo: 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.
Egypt abolished DST in 2014, then reinstated seasonal clock changes in April 2023 after a nine-year pause.
Egypt abolished DST in 2014, then reinstated seasonal clock changes in April 2023 after a nine-year pause.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC+02:00 and summer UTC+03:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone Africa/Cairo.
Cairo is listed in the dataset snapshot as 3 hours ahead of UTC (offset +03:00). 2 hours ahead of London, 6 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 31.25°, Cairo's mean solar noon falls about 55 minutes after civil 12:00 under the sampled +03:00 civil offset; during the alternate seasonal offset this shifts by about one hour on the clock — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Jun 17 (14h 5m)
Shortest day
Dec 20 (10h 12m)
Year-round average
12h 10m
Annual swing
3h 53m
See the full daylight curve for Cairo at /sun/cairo/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Cairo local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Cairo |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 16:00 - 00:00 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 06:30 - 14:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 04:00 - 12:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 04:00 - 12:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 03:00 - 11:00 |
Public holidays in 2026
7
Capital status
National capital of Egypt
Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt, with about 10 million residents in the city proper and roughly 22 million in the Greater Cairo metropolitan area, making it the largest urban agglomeration in Africa and the Arab world. Eastern European Time (EET, UTC+2) and Eastern European Summer Time (EEST, UTC+3) apply; Egypt reinstated daylight saving in 2023 after a near-decade pause. The Pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx, located on the western edge of the metropolitan area, are part of the Memphis and its Necropolis UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 1979 — the Great Pyramid is the only one of the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still substantially intact. Cairo houses Al-Azhar University (founded 970 CE, one of the oldest continuously operating universities in the world) and the headquarters of the Arab League.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-11 (manual).
Reference fields include Cairo's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 01:01:33 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Cairo (UTC+03:00, EEST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:54 AM to 07:52 PM
Day length 13h 58m · Solar noon 12:53 PM
Next country holiday
June 30 Revolution
Thursday, July 2, 2026 · Public
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Population
9.6M
Coordinates
30.06, 31.25
Timezone
Africa/Cairo
Indexed airports
3
Capital
Cairo
Languages
Arabic
Currency
EGP (£)
Country area
1,002,450 km²
Cairo, Egypt (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Cairo (EEST, UTC+03:00); population ~9.6M.
Coordinates: 30.06°N, 31.25°E. Northern Hemisphere subtropics, ~3337 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:54 AM and sets around 07:52 PM in Cairo — about 13h 58m of daylight. Egypt observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Shubrā al Khaymah (7 km from Cairo) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 3 curated airport pages indexed for Egypt.
Next national holiday: June 30 Revolution, 2026-07-02.
Cairo is indexed as a Africa city in the EG country record, using Africa/Cairo as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/egypt/cairo/.
Location context: 30.06°N, 31.25°E; population 9,606,916; nearest indexed city Shubrā al Khaymah is about 7 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 2,422 km away.
Country planning context: capital Cairo; subregion Northern Africa; languages Arabic; currency EGP (£); area 1,002,450 km²; 3 curated airport references; next holiday June 30 Revolution on 2026-07-02.
Egypt abolished DST in 2014, then reinstated seasonal clock changes in April 2023 after a nine-year pause.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC+02:00 and summer UTC+03:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone Africa/Cairo.
Cairo is listed in the dataset snapshot as 3 hours ahead of UTC (offset +03:00). 2 hours ahead of London, 6 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 31.25°, Cairo's mean solar noon falls about 55 minutes after civil 12:00 under the sampled +03:00 civil offset; during the alternate seasonal offset this shifts by about one hour on the clock — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Cairo sits at 30.06°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 13 hours 56 minutes on the June solstice and about 10 hours 4 minutes on the December solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 9.6 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Cairo: Alexandria (same time), San Francisco (−10h), Los Angeles (−10h), Dubai (+1h), Tokyo (+6h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
egypt
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
EEST
IANA Zone
Africa/Cairo
UTC Offset
UTC+03:00
DST Status
Observing DST
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
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 time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Cairo: closest hubs Dubai (~2,422 km), London (~3,511 km), Singapore (~8,259 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~14,416 km).
Cairo sits inside Egypt — the Northern Africa subregion, capital Cairo, languages Arabic, currency EGP (£).
Closest indexed cities to Cairo: Shubrā al Khaymah (7 km), Giza (7 km), Alexandria (180 km), Khān Yūnis (325 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Cairo: June 30 Revolution, Revolution Day, Armed Forces Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Egypt.
Closest curated airport references from Cairo: CAI Cairo (15 km), SPX Al Jiza (34 km), HBE Alexandria (177 km).
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
Coordination pulse
2 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:01 AM | -2h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:01 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:01 AM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:01 PM | +1h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:01 PM | +5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:01 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:01 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:01 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
Shubrā al Khaymah
Egypt
Approx. 7 km away
Giza
Egypt
Approx. 7 km away
Alexandria
Egypt
Approx. 180 km away
Khān Yūnis
Palestinian Territories
Approx. 325 km away
Gaza
Palestinian Territories
Approx. 346 km away
Jabālyā
Palestinian Territories
Approx. 349 km away
Tel Aviv
Israel
Approx. 404 km away
Jerusalem
Israel
Approx. 423 km away
Cairo is in the Africa/Cairo timezone (EEST), with a UTC offset of +03:00.
Cairo uses seasonal daylight saving rules in Africa/Cairo. The current offset is UTC+03:00; January resolves to UTC+02:00 and July resolves to UTC+03:00.
The current UTC offset for Cairo is UTC+03:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Cairo, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 13:01 GMT+3. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Cairo sits at 30.06°N, 31.25°E in Egypt, 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.
Shubrā al Khaymah is the closest indexed city, roughly 7 km from Cairo.
Cairo International Airport (CAI) is the closest curated airport reference, about 15 km from Cairo.
June 30 Revolution is the next upcoming holiday in Egypt, on Thursday, July 2, 2026.
Cairo uses Egyptian pound (EGP, symbol £) as the local currency of Egypt.
The longest day of 2026 in Cairo falls on Jun 17 with about 14h 5m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 20 with 10h 12m; the year-round average is 12h 10m.
In Cairo local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 16:00-00:00 (next day); London 11:00-19:00; Frankfurt 10:00-18:00; Dubai 08:00-16:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.