Time in Alexandria, Egypt | Alexandria Now
Saturday, 7 November 2026
EET (UTC+02:00)
Time zone information for Alexandria
UTC +2
Eastern European Time (EET) , currently 5 hours behind Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh
▪Part of the year: UTC +3 / Eastern European Summer Time (EEST)
▪Time in Alexandria is 5 hours behind Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh when on standard time, and 4 hours behind Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh when on daylight saving time.
▪The IANA time zone identifier for Alexandria is
Africa/Cairo.October29Thursday2026
Latest change: Standard time began
- ▪Switched to UTC +2 / Eastern European Standard Time (EET).
- ▪The time was set backward one hour from 00:00 to 23:00 local time.
April29Thursday2027
Next change: Daylight saving time begins
- ▪Switch to UTC +3 / Eastern European Summer Time (EEST).
- ▪The time will be set forward one hour from 00:00 to 01:00 local time.
Sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time for Alexandria
- ▪Sunrise: 06:20
- ▪Sunset: 17:07
- ▪Day length: 10h 46m
- ▪Solar noon: 11:43
- ▪Current time in Alexandria is currently 17 minutes behind solar time.
Alexandria on map
- ▪Location: Alexandria, Egypt
- ▪Latitude: 31,20. Longitude: 29,92
- ▪Population: 5,263,542
- ▪Elevation: 9 m
Time difference
from Alexandria
Sun cycle
Sunrise 06:20
Solar noon 11:43Sunset 17:07
Time zone & DST
- IANA identifier
Africa/Cairo- Abbreviation
- EET
- UTC offset
- UTC+02:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in effect
- DST Starts
- 30 Apr 2027in 173 days, 17 hours
- Current Unix epoch
- 1794025277
Sun & astronomy
- Sunrise
- 06:20
- Sunset
- 17:07
- Solar noon
- 11:43
- Day length
- 10h 46m
- Night length
- 13h 13m
- Civil twilight
- 05:55 – 17:32
Geography & country
- Country
- Egypt
- Region / State
- Alexandria
- Coordinates
- 31.202°, 29.916°
- Elevation
- 9 m
- Population
- 5,263,542
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