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Hurghada

UTC+3

Egypt · EEST

Summer
03:45:19Live

Tue, 15 Sept 2026

00:00↑ 05:54↓ 19:4224:00
Sunrise
05:54
Sunset
19:42
Daylight
13.8hrs
Population
260K
Season
Summer
Next full moon
14 Jul
Buck Moon

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

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?

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. 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

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Working Hours

9h overlap

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