Uganda · EAT
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Kampala, Uganda runs on UTC+3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. There is a 7-hour difference between Kampala 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 Kampala lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. There is a 2-hour difference between Kampala 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 Kampala lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. There is a 6-hour difference between Kampala 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 Kampala 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 Kampala.
Practical Info
Kampala (Uganda) is home to roughly 1.7M people. Today brings about 12.2 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:48, sunset at 19:00. 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.
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Uganda
Capital
Kampala 👑
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
EAT · 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 sunrise and sunset stay within a few minutes of 07:00 and 19:00 all year.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
9h overlapSame timezone as your location.