Your location
The calculator uses 30.0444°, 31.2357° and Africa/Cairo. Coordinates represent the city center and also serve Giza, Heliopolis, Nasr City and 6th of October City. The selected date belongs to this time zone.
Plan the month or the year
After you calculate a day, the Open monthly calendar link carries Cairo and the date to the monthly calendar, where you can print the table or download it as CSV. For the whole of Cairo’s year at a glance, including its longest and shortest day, use the annual sunrise and sunset table.
Check the context
The visible horizon and weather affect what you see. Tall buildings, hills and a high floor around Cairo all move the moment the Sun actually appears or disappears relative to the flat-horizon times shown here.
What makes Cairo’s daylight different
Cairo sits at 30.0° N, so its northern-hemisphere seasons give it a longest day of 14h 05m on 21 June and a shortest day of 10h 13m on 21 December in 2026. The earliest sunrise (04:54 AM on 4 June) and the latest sunset (07:00 PM on 25 June) do not fall on the solstice itself, because solar noon drifts against the clock through the year.
Sunrise and sunset in Cairo through the year
The table below is calculated by the same engine for four reference dates this year, so you can see the seasonal range at Cairo’s latitude. Times are local clock times for the city center.
| Reference date | Date | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox period | 2026-03-20 | 05:59 AM | 06:06 PM | 12h 07m |
| June solstice period | 2026-06-21 | 04:54 AM | 06:59 PM | 14h 05m |
| September equinox period | 2026-09-22 | 05:43 AM | 05:52 PM | 12h 09m |
| December solstice period | 2026-12-21 | 06:47 AM | 04:59 PM | 10h 13m |
Clock changes in Cairo
Cairo keeps GMT+2 all year, so there is no clock change to allow for; sunrise and sunset simply drift with the season.
Sunrise and sunset in Cairo today and tomorrow
The page opens on today’s date in Africa/Cairo. Press Tomorrow to move one day ahead, or type any date between 2000 and 2099. Twilight boundaries for Cairo are on the twilight page, photography windows on the golden hour page and the daylight comparison on the day length page.
Nearby places
The nearest places with their own page, by straight-line distance from the city center:
- Sunrise and sunset in Makkah, Saudi Arabia (about 1,290 km away)
- Sunrise and sunset in Paris, France (about 3,210 km away)
- Sunrise and sunset in London, UK (about 3,510 km away)
- Sunrise and sunset in Karachi, Pakistan (about 3,560 km away)
- Sunrise and sunset in Tromsø, Norway (about 4,470 km away)
All 27 locations are listed on the sunrise and sunset times by city page.