Indexed entity
Nakuru is the nakuru-KE record in Kenya: country slug kenya, city slug nakuru, ISO KE, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Nairobi.
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Live local time
Nakuru, Kenya
01:42:27 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Nairobi
Quick answer
It is currently 01:42:27 PM (EAT, UTC+03:00) in Nakuru, Kenya — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
15°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
24°C
15°C
Wed
25°C
15°C
76% rain
Thu
24°C
16°C
57% 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.
Conversion rates aren’t published for this currency by the ECB. The local code is shown for reference.
Today
Sunrise
06:30 AM
Sunset
06:36 PM
Day length
12h 6m
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 Nakuru, 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
01:42:27 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 Nakuru right now
Nearest airport
EDL
Eldoret International Airport · 122 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 Nakuru, Kenya.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 13:42 GMT+3
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Nakuru 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
EDL Eldoret, 122 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:30 AM to 06:36 PM, with solar noon around 12:33 PM and total daylight of 12h 6m.
Mapped location
0.31°S, 36.07°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 Nakuru 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 Nakuru 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 Nakuru.
EDL · Eldoret International Airport
Eldoret
NBO · Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
Nairobi
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 Nakuru right now.
Check local interruptions
Mazingira Day on Saturday, October 10, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: EDL Eldoret, 122 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
Nakuru 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 Nakuru.
Canonical route
/time/kenya/nakuru/
Catalog identity
nakuru-KE · KE · Africa
Coordinate cell
0.31°S, 36.07°E · lat -0.307 · lon 36.072 · cell -31:3607
Population record
570,674 residents · country rank 4
Zone snapshot
Africa/Nairobi · GMT+3 · UTC+03:00
January / July offsets
UTC+03:00 / UTC+03:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Nairobi, Kenya · 136 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 3,508 km
Closest airport references
EDL Eldoret 122 km · NBO Nairobi 147 km · KIS Kisumu 151 km · MBA Mombasa 570 km
Zone peer roster
Nairobi, Kenya · Kakamega, Kenya · Mombasa, Kenya
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Nakuru: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Nakuru is the nakuru-KE record in Kenya: country slug kenya, city slug nakuru, ISO KE, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Nairobi.
0.31°S, 36.07°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -1 and longitude band 36; exact decimal pair -0.30719, 36.07225.
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 Nakuru 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.
Nairobi [nairobi-KE, KE, Africa/Nairobi, 136 km]; Kakamega [kakamega-KE, KE, Africa/Nairobi, 161 km]; Kira [kira-UG, UG, Africa/Kampala, 390 km]; Kampala [kampala-UG, UG, Africa/Kampala, 394 km]; Bunamwaya [bunamwaya-UG, UG, Africa/Kampala, 396 km]; Nansana [nansana-UG, UG, Africa/Kampala, 401 km]; Mwanza [mwanza-TZ, TZ, Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, 430 km]; Mombasa [mombasa-KE, KE, Africa/Nairobi, 577 km]
Nakuru 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 3,508 km; London 6,686 km; Singapore 7,535 km; São Paulo 9,251 km; Tokyo 11,250 km; New York 11,708 km; Sydney 12,284 km; Los Angeles 15,407 km
EDL Eldoret International Airport in Eldoret [KE, 122 km]; NBO Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi [KE, 147 km]; KIS Kisumu International Airport in Kisumu [KE, 151 km]; MBA Moi International Airport in Mombasa [KE, 570 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].
Nakuru 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 is what keeps smaller city pages from reading like timezone templates: concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Nakuru.
Nakuru is a context-and-reference city; rank #4 of 4 retained Kenya city pages. The route is /time/kenya/nakuru/ and the city id is nakuru-KE.
Nakuru has 15 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.
Nakuru is pinned at 0.31°S, 36.07°E; Nairobi (136 km); Dubai (3,508 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.
EDL Eldoret International Airport (122 km) · Mazingira Day (Saturday, October 10, 2026) · 4 country airport references · 10 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Nakuru 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.
Nakuru: Nakuru, sometimes referred to as Nakuru City, is the capital city of Nakuru County, Kenya. As of 2019, Nakuru had an urban population of 570,674. The city lies along the Nairobi–Nakuru Highway, 160 kilometres (99 mi) from Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya. In December 2021, Nakuru City became the fourth urban area in Kenya to be assigned the status of "city".
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+03:00) is constant year-round.
Nakuru 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 36.07°, Nakuru's mean solar noon falls about 36 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.
Nakuru sits at 0.31°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Nakuru sits at 0.31°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 8m)
Shortest day
Mar 31 (12h 6m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 2m
See the full daylight curve for Nakuru at /sun/nakuru/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Nakuru local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Nakuru |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Reference fields include Nakuru's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 01:42:27 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Nakuru (UTC+03:00, EAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:30 AM to 06:36 PM
Day length 12h 6m · Solar noon 12:33 PM
Next country holiday
Mazingira Day
Saturday, October 10, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Nakuru local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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34 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
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161 days to go
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187 days to go
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8 days to go
Population
570.7K
Coordinates
-0.31, 36.07
Timezone
Africa/Nairobi
Indexed airports
4
Capital
Nairobi
Languages
English, Swahili
Currency
KES (Sh)
Country area
580,367 km²
Nakuru, Kenya (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Nairobi (EAT, UTC+03:00); population ~570.7K.
Coordinates: 0.31°S, 36.07°E. Equatorial Hemisphere deep tropics, ~34 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:30 AM and sets around 06:36 PM in Nakuru — about 12h 6m of daylight. Kenya stays on standard time here, so UTC+03:00 is stable through the year.
Nairobi (136 km from Nakuru) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 4 curated airport pages indexed for Kenya.
Next national holiday: Mazingira Day, 2026-10-10.
Nakuru 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/nakuru/.
Location context: 0.31°S, 36.07°E; population 570,674; nearest indexed city Nairobi is about 136 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 3,508 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.
Nakuru 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 36.07°, Nakuru's mean solar noon falls about 36 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.
Nakuru sits at 0.31°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Sizeable city with about 571 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Nakuru: Nairobi (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 Nakuru.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Nakuru: closest hubs Dubai (~3,508 km), London (~6,686 km), Singapore (~7,535 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~15,407 km).
Nakuru sits inside Kenya — the Eastern Africa subregion, capital Nairobi, languages English, Swahili, currency KES (Sh).
Closest indexed cities to Nakuru: Nairobi (136 km), Kakamega (161 km), Kira (390 km), Kampala (394 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Nakuru: Mazingira Day, Mashujaa Day, Jamhuri Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Kenya.
Closest curated airport references from Nakuru: EDL Eldoret (122 km), NBO Nairobi (147 km), KIS Kisumu (151 km).
Eldoret International AirportEDL
Eldoret · 122 km from Nakuru
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 54m
Jomo Kenyatta International AirportNBO
Nairobi · 147 km from Nakuru
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 56m
Kisumu International AirportKIS
Kisumu · 151 km from Nakuru
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 57m
Moi International AirportMBA
Mombasa · 570 km from Nakuru
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 29m
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 |
Nakuru is in the Africa/Nairobi timezone (EAT), with a UTC offset of +03:00.
Nakuru 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 Nakuru is UTC+03:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Nakuru, 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.
Nakuru sits at 0.31°S, 36.07°E in Kenya, with about 570.7K residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Nakuru is Dubai, about 3,508 km away as the crow flies.
Nairobi is the closest indexed city, roughly 136 km from Nakuru.
Eldoret International Airport (EDL) is the closest curated airport reference, about 122 km from Nakuru.
Mazingira Day is the next upcoming holiday in Kenya, on Saturday, October 10, 2026.
Nakuru uses Kenyan shilling (KES, symbol Sh) as the local currency of Kenya.
The longest day of 2026 in Nakuru falls on Jan 1 with about 12h 8m of daylight. The shortest is Mar 31 with 12h 6m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
In Nakuru 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.