| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −2h | Becomes −3h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −1h | Becomes −2h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +1h | Becomes +2h on 30 Oct |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +6h | Becomes +7h on 30 Oct |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +7h | Becomes +8h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −7h | Becomes −6h on 29 Oct |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −10h | Becomes −9h on 29 Oct |
Alexandria, Egypt runs on UTC+3. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 29 Oct. The time difference between Alexandria and New York is 7 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 16:00–18:00 in Alexandria lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Alexandria and London is 2 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 7 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 11:00–18:00 in Alexandria lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Alexandria and Tokyo is 6 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–12:00 in Alexandria lines up with 15:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Athens, Cairo, Beirut. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Alexandria.
Alexandria (Egypt) is home to roughly 5.2M people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:53, sunset at 18:47. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 29 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 31° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Egypt
Capital
Cairo
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Africa/Cairo
Coordinates
31.20°N, 29.92°E
Currency
EGP (E£)
Calling Code
+20
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Arabic
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina opened in 2002 with shelf space for eight million books, on a site near the ancient library it commemorates. Its exterior wall is carved with characters from 120 scripts.
The clock: Alexandria keeps UTC+2, and UTC+3 in summer. The Pharos lighthouse stood here for roughly 1,600 years until earthquakes finished it in the 14th century — one of the longest-serving structures of the ancient world.
Alexandria lies at 29.9°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The two very nearly coincide: solar noon — the moment the sun is highest — falls at about 12:00, which is as close to true solar time as a zone this wide can get. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 60 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:00.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 11m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 10h 7m. The swing between them is 4h 4m. At this latitude the seasons are visible in the clock, but never dramatic.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Alexandria the sun comes up earliest on 23 April at 05:24, while the latest sunset waits until 2 July at 20:08. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Alexandria that civil twilight runs about 24 minutes at the equinox.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Alexandria, Egypt is Africa/Cairo with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Alexandria has an estimated population of 5.2M and is located at coordinates 31.20°N, 29.92°E.
Alexandria gets 14h 11m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 7m on its shortest, averaging 12h 10m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Alexandria falls at about 12:00 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 0.1° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Library Rebuilt After 2,000 Years: The Bibliotheca Alexandrina opened in 2002 with shelf space for eight million books, on a site near the ancient library it commemorates. Its exterior wall is carved with characters from 120 scripts.