| 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 |
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: 29 Oct. The time difference between Hurghada 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 Hurghada lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Hurghada 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 Hurghada lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Hurghada 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 Hurghada 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 Hurghada.
Hurghada (Egypt) is home to roughly 260K people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:36, sunset at 18:32. 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 27° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Egypt
Capital
Cairo
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Africa/Cairo
Coordinates
27.26°N, 33.81°E
Currency
EGP (E£)
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. The Red Sea's 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 eight years without it.
Hurghada lies at 33.8°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 3.8° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 15 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:45 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 45 minutes and pushing solar noon to 12:45.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 13h 52m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 10h 25m. The swing between them is 3h 27m. 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 Hurghada the sun comes up earliest on 23 April at 05:14, while the latest sunset waits until 3 July at 19:43. 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 Hurghada that civil twilight runs about 23 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 Hurghada, Egypt is Africa/Cairo with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Hurghada has an estimated population of 260K and is located at coordinates 27.26°N, 33.81°E.
Hurghada gets 13h 52m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 25m on its shortest, averaging 12h 10m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Hurghada falls at about 11:45 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 3.8° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Fishing Village That Became a Resort: Hurghada had a few thousand residents in the 1980s and now holds several hundred thousand, built on Red Sea diving. The Red Sea's reefs support around 1,200 fish species, roughly 10% of them found nowhere else.