Current local time in Egypt
Current time in Egypt
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Africa/Cairo · UTC+2
Depending on the date, Egypt is either UTC+2 on EET or UTC+3 on EEST. Egypt Summer Time runs from the last Friday in April to the last Thursday in October. Rather than guess, read the live clock above: it follows the Africa/Cairo zone and changes over on its own. Egypt reinstated daylight saving in 2023 after an eight-year break, and its summer period is bounded by a Friday and a Thursday rather than the Sundays used across Europe.
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Time zone facts
- Standard time
- Eastern European Time (EET), UTC+2
- Summer time
- Egypt Summer Time (EEST), UTC+3
- Daylight saving
- Observed from the last Friday in April to the last Thursday in October
- IANA timezone
- Africa/Cairo
Common questions
- What time is it in Egypt right now?
- The clock at the top of this page shows the current time in Egypt, updated every second, with today's date and the day of the week beneath it. It reads your device's clock and converts it using the Africa/Cairo rules, so it stays correct across daylight-saving changes.
- What is the UTC offset in Egypt?
- EET is UTC+2 and EEST is UTC+3. Egypt is on EEST from the last Friday in April to the last Thursday in October, and on EET for the rest of the year.
- Does Egypt observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. Clocks go forward an hour for Egypt Summer Time, which runs from the last Friday in April to the last Thursday in October, and back again at the end of it.
- What is the IANA timezone for Egypt?
- Africa/Cairo. That is the identifier to use in code (a database column, a cron schedule, an Intl.DateTimeFormat call), because it carries the full history of offset and daylight-saving changes for Egypt rather than one fixed number.