| 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 |
Kisumu, Kenya runs on UTC+3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Kisumu 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 Kisumu lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Kisumu 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 Kisumu lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Kisumu 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 Kisumu 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 Kisumu.
Kisumu (Kenya) is home to roughly 600K people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:27, sunset at 18:34. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 0° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Kenya
Capital
Nairobi
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Africa/Nairobi
Coordinates
0.09°S, 34.77°E
Currency
KES (KSh)
Calling Code
+254
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
Swahili, English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Kisumu sits on Lake Victoria, which at about 68,800 square kilometres is the largest lake in Africa. The introduction of Nile perch in the 1950s collapsed hundreds of endemic cichlid species while creating a major export fishery.
The clock: Kisumu keeps UTC+3 essentially on the equator, where the sun rises between about 06:20 and 06:50 and sets between about 18:30 and 19:00 all year.
Kisumu lies at 34.8°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The 10.2° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 41 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:41 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+3 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 12h 8m of daylight. The shortest is 6 April, with 12h 7m. The swing between them is 1 minute. 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 Kisumu the sun comes up earliest on 2 November at 06:21, while the latest sunset waits until 13 February at 18:59. 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 Kisumu 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 Kisumu, Kenya is Africa/Nairobi with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Kisumu has an estimated population of 600K and is located at coordinates 0.09°S, 34.77°E.
Kisumu gets 12h 8m of daylight on its longest day and 12h 7m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Kisumu falls at about 12:41 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 10.2° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Port on an Inland Sea: Kisumu sits on Lake Victoria, which at about 68,800 square kilometres is the largest lake in Africa.