| 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 | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +6h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +7h | Becomes +8h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −7h | Becomes −8h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −10h | Becomes −11h on 1 Nov |
Gulu, Uganda runs on UTC+3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Gulu 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 Gulu lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Gulu 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 Gulu lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Gulu 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 Gulu lines up with 15:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Moscow, Istanbul, Nairobi. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Gulu.
Gulu (Uganda) is home to roughly 150K people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:38, sunset at 18:43. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 3° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Uganda
Capital
Kampala
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Africa/Kampala
Coordinates
2.77°N, 32.30°E
Currency
UGX (USh)
Calling Code
+256
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English, Swahili
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Northern Uganda's insurgency displaced up to 1.8 million people into camps at its height, many of them around Gulu. The region has been peaceful since 2006, and the city has grown quickly since.
The clock: Gulu keeps UTC+3. Murchison Falls nearby squeezes the entire Nile through a gap about seven metres wide.
Gulu lies at 32.3°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The 12.7° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 51 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:51 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+3 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 12h 17m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 58m. The swing between them is 19 minutes. Within a few degrees of the equator the length of the day barely moves all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Gulu the sun comes up earliest on 28 October at 06:34, while the latest sunset waits until 19 February at 19:06. 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 Gulu that civil twilight runs about 21 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 Gulu, Uganda is Africa/Kampala with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Gulu has an estimated population of 150K and is located at coordinates 2.77°N, 32.30°E.
Gulu gets 12h 17m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 58m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Gulu falls at about 12:51 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 12.7° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City That Rebuilt After a War: Northern Uganda's insurgency displaced up to 1.8 million people into camps at its height, many of them around Gulu. The region has been peaceful since 2006, and the city has grown quickly since.