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Time in Egypt now

07:56:30PM

Thursday, 23 April, 2026, week 17

World Book and Copyright Day

Egypt switches to daylight saving time at 12:00AM on Friday, 24 April. The time is set one hour forward.
Sun: ↑ 05:28AM ↓ 06:28PM (13h 0m) - More info - Make Egypt time default - Add to favourite locations

Time zone info for Egypt

UTC +2

Egypt Standard Time (GMT +2)
now 6 hours ahead of New York

From 24 April 2026: UTC +3 / Egypt Daylight Time (GMT +3)
The time in Egypt is normally 6 or 7 hours ahead of the time in New York, but because these time zones don't share the same start and end times for daylight saving time, the time in Egypt can for a short while be 6 hours ahead of the time in New York.
Latest time zone news: Egypt brings back DST
The IANA time zone identifier for Egypt is Africa/Cairo.

Friday October 31 2025

Latest change: Winter time started

Switched to UTC +2 / Egypt Standard Time (GMT +2).
The time was set back one hour from 12:00AM to 11:00PM local time.

Friday April 24 2026

Next change: Summer time starts

Switching to UTC +3 / Egypt Daylight Time (GMT +3).
The time will be set forward one hour from 12:00AM to 01:00AM local time.

Time difference
from Egypt

Los Angeles	−9 hours	−9 hours
Chicago	−7 hours	−7 hours
New York	−6 hours	−6 hours
Toronto	−6 hours	−6 hours
São Paulo	−5 hours	−5 hours
UTC	−2 hours	−2 hours
Lagos	−1 hours	−1 hours
London	−1 hours	−1 hours
Cairo	0
Johannesburg	0
Paris	0
Zurich	0
Istanbul	+1 hours
Moscow	+1 hours
Dubai	+2 hours
Mumbai	+3.5 hours
Hong Kong	+6 hours
Shanghai	+6 hours
Singapore	+6 hours
Tokyo	+7 hours
Sydney	+8 hours

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Egypt on the map

Continent: Africa and Asia
Area: 1,001,450 km²
Capital: Cairo
Currency: Pound (EGP)
Calling code: +20
Internet top level domain: .eg
Latitude: 27.00. Longitude: 30.00
Population: 98,424,000

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Annual average temperatures
for Egypt 1901-2021

Each of the stripes represents one year.
Graphics by Ed Hawkins, using data from Berkeley Earth.
See showyourstripes.info.