Egypt · EEST
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Hurghada, Egypt runs on UTC+3. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 30 Oct. There is a 7-hour difference between Hurghada and New York. 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 Hurghada lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. There is a 2-hour difference between Hurghada and London. 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 Hurghada lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. There is a 6-hour difference between Hurghada and Tokyo. 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 Hurghada lines up with 15:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Moscow, Athens, Istanbul. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Hurghada.
Practical Info
Hurghada (Egypt) is home to roughly 260K people. Today brings about 13.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:54, sunset at 19:42. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 30 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 27° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Egypt
Capital
Cairo
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
EEST · Africa/Cairo
Coordinates
27.26°N, 33.81°E
Currency
EGP (£)
Calling Code
+20
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Arabic
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Hurghada had a few thousand residents in the 1980s and now holds several hundred thousand, built on Red Sea diving. Its reefs support around 1,200 fish species, roughly 10% of them found nowhere else.
The clock: Hurghada keeps UTC+2, and Egypt reinstated daylight saving in 2023 after nine years without it.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
9h overlapSame timezone as your location.