| 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 |
Kampala, 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 Kampala 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 Kampala lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Kampala 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 Kampala lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Kampala 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 Kampala 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 Kampala.
Kampala (Uganda) is home to roughly 1.7M people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:36, sunset at 18:42. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 0° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Uganda
Capital
Kampala 👑
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Africa/Kampala
Coordinates
0.35°N, 32.58°E
Currency
UGX (USh)
Calling Code
+256
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English, Swahili
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Lake Victoria, on Kampala's doorstep, is the largest tropical lake in the world at about 68,800 square kilometres, and the White Nile leaves it at Jinja nearby — a source that Europeans spent most of the 19th century arguing about.
The clock: Kampala keeps UTC+3 almost exactly on the equator, where the sun rises between about 06:30 and 07:00 and sets between about 18:35 and 19:10 all year.
Kampala lies at 32.6°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The 12.4° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 50 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:50 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 8m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 12h 6m. The swing between them is 2 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 Kampala the sun comes up earliest on 1 November at 06:30, while the latest sunset waits until 14 February at 19:07. 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 Kampala 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 Kampala, Uganda is Africa/Kampala with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Kampala has an estimated population of 1.7M and is located at coordinates 0.35°N, 32.58°E. It is the capital city of Uganda.
Kampala gets 12h 8m of daylight on its longest day and 12h 6m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Kampala falls at about 12:50 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 12.4° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Source of the Nile: Lake Victoria, on Kampala's doorstep, is the largest tropical lake in the world at about 68,800 square kilometres, and the White Nile leaves it at Jinja nearby — a source that Europeans spent most of the 19th century…