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9–17 in Nairobi vs UTC
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- Siku ya Jamhuri12 Dec 2026
- Krismasi25 Dec 2026
- Boxing Day26 Dec 2026
- Mwaka mpya1 Jan 2027
- Idd-ul-Fitr9 Mar 2027
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About Nairobi
Home to roughly 4,397,073 residents, Nairobi is a major metropolitan hub in Kenya. Its terrain rests around 1795 m of elevation, giving the area cooler nights than its latitude alone would suggest.
The Africa/Nairobi zone governs civic time in Nairobi; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. Lying in the southern hemisphere within the equatorial belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (-1.29°).
Visitors will find prices listed in KES; phones reach Kenya via the +254 country code. This page exposes Nairobi's exact local time alongside sunrise, sunset, public holidays, and a structured-data feed at the JSON link below — useful for spreadsheets, scheduling tools, and AI assistants alike.
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Questions about time in Nairobi
The current local time in Nairobi, Kenya is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Nairobi uses the IANA time zone Africa/Nairobi, currently UTC+3.
Whether Nairobi observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Africa/Nairobi) is the source of truth.
Nairobi is currently 8 hours ahead of New York.
Nairobi is currently 3 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Nairobi are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (-1.2921, 36.8219).
Kenya uses the KES currency and the +254 international dialing code.
Nairobi sits at -1.2921° S, 36.8219° E, 1795 m above sea level, in Kenya.