What is the time zone of Egypt?
Egypt is in the Eastern European Time zone. All places including the touristic places Luxor, Giza, Aswan and capital Cairo have the same time, there are no exceptions. The country is not observing daylight savings so the clock is the same all year round.
- Eastern European Time (EET): +2:00 UTC (ahead)
Travel to neighboring provinces and countries
These are the times differences if you travel outside of Egypt.
To Israel: You will enter the Israel Time zone:
- November to March: no time difference
- March to October: +1:00 hour (ahead)
To Iran: You will enter the Iran Time zone:
- November to March: +1:30 hour (ahead)
- March to October: +2:30 hour (ahead)
To Saudi Arabia: You will enter the Arabia Time zone, which is +1 hour ahead
To Sudan: You will enter the Central Africa Time zone, but there is no time difference
To Libya: There is no time difference as you remain in the same time zone all year round
Egypt Daylight Savings Time (DST)
There is no daylight savings.
Other Middle Eastern countries
You can check out information and maps of other Middle Eastern countries by clicking on the below links.
| Eastern European Time & Israel Time | Arabia Standard Time & Turkey Time | Iran Standard Time | Gulf Standard Time |
| Cyprus | Bahrain | Iran | Oman |
| Egypt * | Iraq | United Arab Emirates | |
| Israel | Kuwait | Abu Dhabi | |
| Jordan | Qatar | Ajman | |
| Lebanon | Saudi Arabia | Dubai | |
| State of Palestine | Turkey | Fujairah | |
| Syria | Yemen | Ras Al Khaimah | |
| Sharjah | |||
| Umm Al Quwain | |||
| * no daylight savings |