| 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 | Becomes +2h on 30 Oct |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +6h | Becomes +7h on 30 Oct |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +7h | Becomes +8h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −7h | Becomes −6h on 29 Oct |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −10h | Becomes −9h on 29 Oct |
Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt runs on UTC+3. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 29 Oct. The time difference between Sharm El Sheikh 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 Sharm El Sheikh lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Sharm El Sheikh 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 Sharm El Sheikh lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Sharm El Sheikh 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 Sharm El Sheikh lines up with 15:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Athens, Cairo, Beirut. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Sharm El Sheikh.
Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt) is home to roughly 73K people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:35, sunset at 18:30. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 29 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 28° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Egypt
Capital
Cairo
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Africa/Cairo
Coordinates
27.92°N, 34.33°E
Currency
EGP (E£)
Calling Code
+20
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Arabic
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Ras Muhammad, at the tip of Sinai near Sharm, holds coral reefs supporting over 1,000 fish species where the Gulfs of Aqaba and Suez meet. The Red Sea is unusually warm and salty, which is why its corals have proven more heat-tolerant than most.
The clock: Sharm keeps UTC+2, and UTC+3 in summer since Egypt restored daylight saving in 2023. Its dive sites are scheduled around the sun rather than the clock, since visibility depends on the light angle.
Sharm El Sheikh lies at 34.3°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 4.3° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 17 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:43 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 43 minutes and pushing solar noon to 12:43.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 13h 55m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 10h 22m. The swing between them is 3h 33m. At this latitude the seasons are visible in the clock, but never dramatic.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Sharm El Sheikh the sun comes up earliest on 23 April at 05:11, while the latest sunset waits until 3 July at 19:43. 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 Sharm El Sheikh that civil twilight runs about 23 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 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt is Africa/Cairo with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Sharm El Sheikh has an estimated population of 73K and is located at coordinates 27.92°N, 34.33°E.
Sharm El Sheikh gets 13h 55m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 22m on its shortest, averaging 12h 10m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Sharm El Sheikh falls at about 11:43 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 4.3° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Reef Where Two Gulfs Meet: Ras Muhammad, at the tip of Sinai near Sharm, holds coral reefs supporting over 1,000 fish species where the Gulfs of Aqaba and Suez meet.