Indexed entity
Nairobi is the nairobi-KE record in Kenya: country slug kenya, city slug nairobi, ISO KE, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Nairobi.
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Live local time
Nairobi, Kenya
01:42:02 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Nairobi
Quick answer
It is currently 01:42:02 PM (EAT, UTC+03:00) in Nairobi, Kenya — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
17°C
Partly cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
25°C
17°C
47% rain
Wed
25°C
16°C
59% rain
Thu
25°C
16°C
79% rain
In 130 days
Mazingira Day
Sat, Oct 10, 2026
PublicIn 140 days
Mashujaa Day
Tue, Oct 20, 2026
PublicIn 193 days
Jamhuri Day
Sat, Dec 12, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Kenyan Shilling
Live ECB rate not available for this currency.
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Today
Sunrise
06:29 AM
Sunset
06:32 PM
Day length
12h 3m
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 Nairobi, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:42 AM UTC.
Current local time
01:42:02 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
EAT
Africa/Nairobi · UTC+03:00
Next holiday
Mazingira Day
Saturday, October 10, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Nairobi right now
Nearest airport
NBO
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport · 13 km
Indexed airports
4
Curated airport references available for Kenya
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Nairobi, Kenya.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 13:42 GMT+3
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Nairobi 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
11:42 AM / -2h
Dubai
02:42 PM / +1h
Schedule risk
Mazingira Day on Saturday, October 10, 2026
Travel cue
NBO Nairobi, 13 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:29 AM to 06:32 PM, with solar noon around 12:31 PM and total daylight of 12h 3m.
Mapped location
1.28°S, 36.82°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:42 AM / -2h
Good live-call window with Nairobi right now.
New York
06:42 AM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:42 AM / -10h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:42 PM / +1h
Good live-call window with Nairobi right now.
Singapore
06:42 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 Nairobi.
NBO · Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
Nairobi
EDL · Eldoret International Airport
Eldoret
KIS · Kisumu International Airport
Kisumu
MBA · Moi International Airport
Mombasa
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Nairobi for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+03:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+03:00.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Nairobi right now.
Check local interruptions
Mazingira Day on Saturday, October 10, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: NBO Nairobi, 13 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Nairobi. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Nairobi has no near-term DST change in view, but Mazingira Day can still affect office coverage and local response times.
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 Nairobi.
Canonical route
/time/kenya/nairobi/
Catalog identity
nairobi-KE · KE · Africa
Coordinate cell
1.28°S, 36.82°E · lat -1.283 · lon 36.817 · cell -128:3682
Population record
4,397,073 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Africa/Nairobi · GMT+3 · UTC+03:00
January / July offsets
UTC+03:00 / UTC+03:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Nakuru, Kenya · 136 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 3,553 km
Closest airport references
NBO Nairobi 13 km · EDL Eldoret 257 km · KIS Kisumu 268 km · MBA Mombasa 434 km
Zone peer roster
Kakamega, Kenya · Mombasa, Kenya · Nakuru, Kenya
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Nairobi: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Nairobi is the nairobi-KE record in Kenya: country slug kenya, city slug nairobi, ISO KE, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Nairobi.
1.28°S, 36.82°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -2 and longitude band 36; exact decimal pair -1.28333, 36.81667.
Kenya: official name Republic of Kenya; capital Nairobi; region Africa; subregion Eastern Africa; country population 53,330,978; area 580,367 km²; languages English, Swahili; currencies KES Kenyan shilling. This is the country layer behind the Nairobi clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Kenya: Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country located in East Africa. With an estimated population of more than 53.3 million as of mid-2025, it is the 27th-most populous country in the world and the seventh-most populous in Africa. Kenya's capital and largest city is Nairobi. The second-largest and oldest city is Mombasa, a port city located on Mombasa Island. Other major cities within the country include Kisumu, Nakuru and Eldoret. Going clockwise, Kenya is bordered by South Sudan to the northwest, Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the east, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, Tanzania to the southwest, and Lake Victoria and Uganda to the west. Its geography, climate and population vary. In western Rift Valley counties, the landscape includes cold, snow-capped mountaintops with surrounding forests, wildlife, and fertile agricultural regions in temperate climates. In other areas there are dry, arid, and semi-arid climates, as well as absolute deserts. Source: Wikipedia.
Nakuru [nakuru-KE, KE, Africa/Nairobi, 136 km]; Kakamega [kakamega-KE, KE, Africa/Nairobi, 288 km]; Mombasa [mombasa-KE, KE, Africa/Nairobi, 442 km]; Mwanza [mwanza-TZ, TZ, Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, 456 km]; Kira [kira-UG, UG, Africa/Kampala, 501 km]; Kampala [kampala-UG, UG, Africa/Kampala, 503 km]; Bunamwaya [bunamwaya-UG, UG, Africa/Kampala, 503 km]; Nansana [nansana-UG, UG, Africa/Kampala, 511 km]
Nairobi is part of this indexed country cluster: Nairobi [nairobi-KE, Africa/Nairobi, pop 4,397,073]; Kakamega [kakamega-KE, Africa/Nairobi, pop 1,867,579]; Mombasa [mombasa-KE, Africa/Nairobi, pop 1,208,333]; Nakuru [nakuru-KE, Africa/Nairobi, pop 570,674].
Dubai 3,553 km; London 6,819 km; Singapore 7,455 km; São Paulo 9,283 km; Tokyo 11,248 km; New York 11,842 km; Sydney 12,152 km; Los Angeles 15,543 km
NBO Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi [KE, 13 km]; EDL Eldoret International Airport in Eldoret [KE, 257 km]; KIS Kisumu International Airport in Kisumu [KE, 268 km]; MBA Moi International Airport in Mombasa [KE, 434 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include EDL Eldoret International Airport in Eldoret [KE]; KIS Kisumu International Airport in Kisumu [KE]; MBA Moi International Airport in Mombasa [KE]; NBO Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi [KE].
Nairobi renders Jun 2, 2026 · 13:42 GMT+3; GMT+3 at UTC+03:00; January UTC+03:00; July UTC+03:00; next holiday Mazingira Day on 2026-10-10.
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 Nairobi.
Nairobi is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained Kenya city pages. The route is /time/kenya/nairobi/ and the city id is nairobi-KE.
Nairobi 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.
Nairobi is pinned at 1.28°S, 36.82°E; Nakuru (136 km); Dubai (3,553 km).
Africa/Nairobi resolves to stable UTC+03:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Kenya.
NBO Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (13 km) · Mazingira Day (Saturday, October 10, 2026) · 4 country airport references · 10 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Nairobi 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.
Nairobi: Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya, located in the south-central part of the country. As of 2024, it has a population of 4.8 million and a metropolitan population of 5.7 million, making it the 11th most populous city in Africa. Nicknamed the "Green City under the Sun", Nairobi is uniquely notable for being the only capital city in the world that hosts a national park within its boundaries. Its name originates from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nyirobi, meaning "place of cool waters".
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+03:00) is constant year-round.
Nairobi 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 36.82°, Nairobi's mean solar noon falls about 33 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Nairobi sits at 1.28°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Nairobi sits at 1.28°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
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
Jan 1 (12h 12m)
Shortest day
May 16 (12h 3m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 9m
See the full daylight curve for Nairobi at /sun/nairobi/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Nairobi local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Nairobi |
|---|---|---|
| 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
10
Capital status
National capital of Kenya
Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya, with about 4.4 million residents in the city proper and roughly 5.5 million in the wider metropolitan area. East Africa Time (EAT, UTC+3) is fixed year-round with no daylight saving. The city sits at about 1,795 metres elevation on the edge of the Kenyan Highlands, giving it a mild climate despite being only about 150 kilometres south of the equator. Nairobi is the only major capital in the world to contain a national park within its city limits — Nairobi National Park (117 square kilometres) hosts lions, rhinos, and giraffes within sight of the central business district skyline. The city is the headquarters of UN-Habitat and the UN Environment Programme — the only UN agencies headquartered in the Global South — and the regional headquarters location for many multinationals operating in East and Central Africa.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-11 (manual).
Reference fields include Nairobi's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 01:42:02 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Nairobi (UTC+03:00, EAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:29 AM to 06:32 PM
Day length 12h 3m · Solar noon 12:31 PM
Next country holiday
Mazingira Day
Saturday, October 10, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Nairobi local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
4.4M
Coordinates
-1.28, 36.82
Timezone
Africa/Nairobi
Indexed airports
4
Capital
Nairobi
Languages
English, Swahili
Currency
KES (Sh)
Country area
580,367 km²
Nairobi, Kenya (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Nairobi (EAT, UTC+03:00); population ~4.4M.
Coordinates: 1.28°S, 36.82°E. Equatorial Hemisphere deep tropics, ~142 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:29 AM and sets around 06:32 PM in Nairobi — about 12h 3m of daylight. Kenya stays on standard time here, so UTC+03:00 is stable through the year.
Nakuru (136 km from Nairobi) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 4 curated airport pages indexed for Kenya.
Next national holiday: Mazingira Day, 2026-10-10.
Nairobi is indexed as a Africa city in the KE country record, using Africa/Nairobi as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/kenya/nairobi/.
Location context: 1.28°S, 36.82°E; population 4,397,073; nearest indexed city Nakuru is about 136 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 3,553 km away.
Country planning context: capital Nairobi; subregion Eastern Africa; languages English, Swahili; currency KES (Sh); area 580,367 km²; 4 curated airport references; next holiday Mazingira Day on 2026-10-10.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+03:00) is constant year-round.
Nairobi 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 36.82°, Nairobi's mean solar noon falls about 33 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Nairobi sits at 1.28°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Major metropolitan area with around 4.4 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Nairobi: Kakamega (same time), San Francisco (−10h), Los Angeles (−10h), Singapore (+5h), Mumbai (+2.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
kenya
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
EAT
IANA Zone
Africa/Nairobi
UTC Offset
UTC+03:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
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 Nairobi.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Nairobi: closest hubs Dubai (~3,553 km), London (~6,819 km), Singapore (~7,455 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~15,543 km).
Nairobi sits inside Kenya — the Eastern Africa subregion, capital Nairobi, languages English, Swahili, currency KES (Sh).
Closest indexed cities to Nairobi: Nakuru (136 km), Kakamega (288 km), Mombasa (442 km), Mwanza (456 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Nairobi: Mazingira Day, Mashujaa Day, Jamhuri Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Kenya.
Closest curated airport references from Nairobi: NBO Nairobi (13 km), EDL Eldoret (257 km), KIS Kisumu (268 km).
Jomo Kenyatta International AirportNBO
Nairobi · 13 km from Nairobi
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Eldoret International AirportEDL
Eldoret · 257 km from Nairobi
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 5m
Kisumu International AirportKIS
Kisumu · 268 km from Nairobi
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 6m
Moi International AirportMBA
Mombasa · 434 km from Nairobi
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 18m
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 | 11:42 AM | -2h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:42 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:42 AM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:42 PM | +1h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:42 PM | +5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:42 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:42 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:42 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
Nairobi is in the Africa/Nairobi timezone (EAT), with a UTC offset of +03:00.
Nairobi does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+03:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Nairobi is UTC+03:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Nairobi, 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 · 13:42 GMT+3. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Nairobi sits at 1.28°S, 36.82°E in Kenya, with about 4.4M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Nairobi is Dubai, about 3,553 km away as the crow flies.
Nakuru is the closest indexed city, roughly 136 km from Nairobi.
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO) is the closest curated airport reference, about 13 km from Nairobi.
Mazingira Day is the next upcoming holiday in Kenya, on Saturday, October 10, 2026.
Nairobi uses Kenyan shilling (KES, symbol Sh) as the local currency of Kenya.
The longest day of 2026 in Nairobi falls on Jan 1 with about 12h 12m of daylight. The shortest is May 16 with 12h 3m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
In Nairobi 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.