Indexed entity
Kampala is the kampala-UG record in Uganda: country slug uganda, city slug kampala, ISO UG, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Kampala.
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Live local time
Kampala, Uganda
01:39:52 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Kampala
Quick answer
It is currently 01:39:52 PM (EAT, UTC+03:00) in Kampala, Uganda — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
22°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
27°C
20°C
29% rain
Wed
27°C
20°C
80% rain
Thu
26°C
19°C
88% rain
Tomorrow
Martyrs' Day
Wed, Jun 3, 2026
PublicIn 7 days
National Heroes' Day
Tue, Jun 9, 2026
PublicIn 129 days
Fri, Oct 9, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
UGX
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
06:43 AM
Sunset
06:51 PM
Day length
12h 8m
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 Kampala, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:39 AM UTC.
Current local time
01:39:52 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
EAT
Africa/Kampala · UTC+03:00
Next holiday
Martyrs' Day
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Kampala right now
Nearest airport
EBB
Entebbe International Airport · 34 km
Indexed airports
1
Curated airport references available for Uganda
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Kampala, Uganda.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 13:39 GMT+3
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Kampala 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
11:39 AM / -2h
Dubai
02:39 PM / +1h
Schedule risk
Martyrs' Day on Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Travel cue
EBB Entebbe, 34 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:43 AM to 06:51 PM, with solar noon around 12:47 PM and total daylight of 12h 8m.
Mapped location
0.32°N, 32.58°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:39 AM / -2h
Good live-call window with Kampala right now.
New York
06:39 AM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:39 AM / -10h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:39 PM / +1h
Good live-call window with Kampala right now.
Singapore
06:39 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 Kampala.
EBB · Entebbe International Airport
Entebbe
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Kampala 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 Kampala right now.
Check local interruptions
Martyrs' Day on Wednesday, June 3, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: EBB Entebbe, 34 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Kampala. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Kampala has no near-term DST change in view, but Martyrs' 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 Kampala.
Canonical route
/time/uganda/kampala/
Catalog identity
kampala-UG · UG · Africa
Coordinate cell
0.32°N, 32.58°E · lat 0.316 · lon 32.582 · cell 32:3258
Population record
1,680,600 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Africa/Kampala · GMT+3 · UTC+03:00
January / July offsets
UTC+03:00 / UTC+03:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Bunamwaya, Uganda · 8 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 3,688 km
Closest airport references
EBB Entebbe 34 km
Zone peer roster
Nansana, Uganda · Kira, Uganda · Bunamwaya, Uganda
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Kampala: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Kampala is the kampala-UG record in Uganda: country slug uganda, city slug kampala, ISO UG, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Kampala.
0.32°N, 32.58°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 0 and longitude band 32; exact decimal pair 0.31628, 32.58219.
Uganda: official name Republic of Uganda; capital Kampala; region Africa; subregion Eastern Africa; country population 45,905,417; area 241,550 km²; languages English, Swahili; currencies UGX Ugandan shilling. This is the country layer behind the Kampala clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Uganda: Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southern part includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda is in the African Great Lakes region, lies within the Nile basin, and has a varied equatorial climate. As of 2024, it had a population of 45.9 million, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital and largest city, Kampala. Source: Wikipedia.
Bunamwaya [bunamwaya-UG, UG, Africa/Kampala, 8 km]; Nansana [nansana-UG, UG, Africa/Kampala, 8 km]; Kira [kira-UG, UG, Africa/Kampala, 11 km]; Kakamega [kakamega-KE, KE, Africa/Nairobi, 241 km]; Nyagatare [nyagatare-RW, RW, Africa/Kigali, 309 km]; Mwanza [mwanza-TZ, TZ, Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, 317 km]; Kigali [kigali-RW, RW, Africa/Kigali, 377 km]; Musanze [musanze-RW, RW, Africa/Kigali, 385 km]
Kampala is part of this indexed country cluster: Kampala [kampala-UG, Africa/Kampala, pop 1,680,600]; Nansana [nansana-UG, Africa/Kampala, pop 532,800]; Kira [kira-UG, Africa/Kampala, pop 462,900]; Bunamwaya [bunamwaya-UG, Africa/Kampala, pop 413,400].
Dubai 3,688 km; London 6,464 km; Singapore 7,921 km; São Paulo 8,924 km; New York 11,374 km; Tokyo 11,520 km; Sydney 12,635 km; Los Angeles 15,132 km
EBB Entebbe International Airport in Entebbe [UG, 34 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include EBB Entebbe International Airport in Entebbe [UG].
Kampala renders Jun 2, 2026 · 13:39 GMT+3; GMT+3 at UTC+03:00; January UTC+03:00; July UTC+03:00; next holiday Martyrs' Day on 2026-06-03.
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 Kampala.
Kampala is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained Uganda city pages. The route is /time/uganda/kampala/ and the city id is kampala-UG.
Kampala 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.
Kampala is pinned at 0.32°N, 32.58°E; Bunamwaya (8 km); Dubai (3,688 km).
Africa/Kampala resolves to stable UTC+03:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Uganda.
EBB Entebbe International Airport (34 km) · Martyrs' Day (Wednesday, June 3, 2026) · 1 country airport reference · 12 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Kampala 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.
Kampala: Kampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda. The city proper has a population of 1,797,722 and is divided into the five political divisions of Kampala Central, Kawempe, Makindye, Nakawa, and Rubaga.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+03:00) is constant year-round.
Kampala 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 32.58°, Kampala's mean solar noon falls about 50 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.
Kampala sits at 0.32°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Kampala sits at 0.32°N, 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
Apr 28 (12h 8m)
Shortest day
Jan 1 (12h 6m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 2m
See the full daylight curve for Kampala at /sun/kampala/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Kampala local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Kampala |
|---|---|---|
| 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
12
Capital status
National capital of Uganda
Kampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda, with a population of roughly 1.7 million in the city proper and considerably more across its metropolitan area. It observes East Africa Time (EAT, UTC+3) year-round, with no daylight saving. Built across a series of hills near the northern shore of Lake Victoria, Kampala is the political, administrative, commercial, and educational centre of Uganda, hosting the national government and Makerere University, one of East Africa's oldest universities. The city grew around the historic seat of the Buganda kingdom and remains the cultural heart of the Baganda people, as well as the country's dominant economic hub.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Kampala's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 01:39:52 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Kampala (UTC+03:00, EAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:43 AM to 06:51 PM
Day length 12h 8m · Solar noon 12:47 PM
Next country holiday
Martyrs' Day
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Kampala local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
1.7M
Coordinates
0.32, 32.58
Timezone
Africa/Kampala
Indexed airports
1
Capital
Kampala
Languages
English, Swahili
Currency
UGX (Sh)
Country area
241,550 km²
Kampala, Uganda (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Kampala (EAT, UTC+03:00); population ~1.7M.
Coordinates: 0.32°N, 32.58°E. Equatorial Hemisphere deep tropics, ~35 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:43 AM and sets around 06:51 PM in Kampala — about 12h 8m of daylight. Uganda stays on standard time here, so UTC+03:00 is stable through the year.
Bunamwaya (8 km from Kampala) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Uganda.
Next national holiday: Martyrs' Day, 2026-06-03.
Kampala is indexed as a Africa city in the UG country record, using Africa/Kampala as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/uganda/kampala/.
Location context: 0.32°N, 32.58°E; population 1,680,600; nearest indexed city Bunamwaya is about 8 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 3,688 km away.
Country planning context: capital Kampala; subregion Eastern Africa; languages English, Swahili; currency UGX (Sh); area 241,550 km²; 1 curated airport references; next holiday Martyrs' Day on 2026-06-03.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+03:00) is constant year-round.
Kampala 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 32.58°, Kampala's mean solar noon falls about 50 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.
Kampala sits at 0.32°N, 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 1.7 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Kampala: Nansana (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.
uganda
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
EAT
IANA Zone
Africa/Kampala
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 Kampala.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Kampala: closest hubs Dubai (~3,688 km), London (~6,464 km), Singapore (~7,921 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~15,132 km).
Kampala sits inside Uganda — the Eastern Africa subregion, capital Kampala, languages English, Swahili, currency UGX (Sh).
Closest indexed cities to Kampala: Bunamwaya (8 km), Nansana (8 km), Kira (11 km), Kakamega (241 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Kampala: Martyrs' Day, National Heroes' Day, Independence Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Uganda.
Closest curated airport references from Kampala: EBB Entebbe (34 km).
Entebbe International AirportEBB
Entebbe · 34 km from Kampala
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 48m
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 | 11:39 AM | -2h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:39 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:39 AM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:39 PM | +1h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:39 PM | +5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:39 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:39 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:39 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
Kampala is in the Africa/Kampala timezone (EAT), with a UTC offset of +03:00.
Kampala 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 Kampala is UTC+03:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Kampala, 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 · 13:39 GMT+3. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Kampala sits at 0.32°N, 32.58°E in Uganda, with about 1.7M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Kampala is Dubai, about 3,688 km away as the crow flies.
Bunamwaya is the closest indexed city, roughly 8 km from Kampala.
Entebbe International Airport (EBB) is the closest curated airport reference, about 34 km from Kampala.
Martyrs' Day is the next upcoming holiday in Uganda, on Wednesday, June 3, 2026.
Kampala uses Ugandan shilling (UGX, symbol Sh) as the local currency of Uganda.
The longest day of 2026 in Kampala falls on Apr 28 with about 12h 8m of daylight. The shortest is Jan 1 with 12h 6m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
In Kampala 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.