| 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 |
Mombasa, 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 Mombasa 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 Mombasa lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Mombasa 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 Mombasa lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Mombasa 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 Mombasa 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 Mombasa.
Mombasa (Kenya) is home to roughly 1.2M people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:07, sunset at 18:15. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 4° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Kenya
Capital
Nairobi
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Africa/Nairobi
Coordinates
4.04°S, 39.67°E
Currency
KES (KSh)
Calling Code
+254
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
Swahili, English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Fort Jesus was built by the Portuguese in 1593 and changed hands at least nine times between Portuguese, Omani and British forces. One siege lasted nearly three years.
The clock: Mombasa keeps UTC+3. In Swahili tradition the day is counted from sunrise, so what a clock calls 07:00 is locally the first hour — a system still in everyday use.
Mombasa lies at 39.7°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The 5.3° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 21 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:21 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 21m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 11h 53m. The swing between them is 28 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 Mombasa the sun comes up earliest on 8 November at 05:57, while the latest sunset waits until 6 February at 18:43. 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 Mombasa 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 Mombasa, Kenya is Africa/Nairobi with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Mombasa has an estimated population of 1.2M and is located at coordinates 4.04°S, 39.67°E.
Mombasa gets 12h 21m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 53m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Mombasa falls at about 12:21 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 5.3° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Fort That Changed Hands Nine Times: Fort Jesus was built by the Portuguese in 1593 and changed hands at least nine times between Portuguese, Omani and British forces. One siege lasted nearly three years.