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9–17 in Cairo vs UTC
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- عيد الأضحى27 May 2026
- رأس السنة الهجرية16 Jun 2026
- عيد ثورة 30 يونيو30 Jun 2026
- يوم الثورة23 Jul 2026
- المولد النبويّ25 Aug 2026
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About Cairo
Home to roughly 9,540,000 residents, Cairo is a large regional centre in Egypt. Its terrain rests around 23 m of elevation.
For computers and clocks, Cairo is anchored to the Africa/Cairo time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. The subtropical, northern-hemisphere setting at 30.04° latitude defines its day-length swing across the year — long summer evenings and shorter winter days.
Egypt's currency is EGP and its calling prefix is +20. Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent Cairo's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in Cairo
The current local time in Cairo, Egypt is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Cairo uses the IANA time zone Africa/Cairo, currently UTC+3.
Whether Cairo observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Africa/Cairo) is the source of truth.
Cairo is currently 7 hours ahead of New York.
Cairo is currently 2 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Cairo are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (30.0444, 31.2357).
Egypt uses the EGP currency and the +20 international dialing code.
Cairo sits at 30.0444° N, 31.2357° E, 23 m above sea level, in Egypt.