Time in Kenya 🇰🇪
The current local time in Kenya is anchored on Nairobi (Africa/Nairobi, UTC +03:00 · EAT).
Nairobi local time
Thursday, 22 October 2026 EAT
Kenya at a glance
- Capital
- Nairobi
- ISO codes
- KE · KEN
- Clocks in use today
- One time zone
- tz database zones
- 1
- Dialing code
- +254
- Currency
- Kenyan Shilling (KES)
- Work week
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend
- Saturday and Sunday
- Drives on the
- Left
Time zones in Kenya
All of Kenya keeps the same clock, UTC +03:00, all year with no daylight saving time.
| Zone | Standard | Daylight saving | Clock changes 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
Africa/Nairobi · Nairobi | UTC +03:00 | — | None |
Nairobi vs. major cities
How far Nairobi is from the world's main business centres right now, what time it is there when the working day starts in Nairobi, and which hours of a 09:00–17:00 day the two places share. Daylight saving changes are applied automatically.
| City | Difference | At 09:00 in Nairobi | Shared office hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York · United States | −7 h | 02:00 | 16:00–17:00 |
| Los Angeles · United States | −10 h | 23:00 (prev. day) | None |
| São Paulo · Brazil | −6 h | 03:00 | 15:00–17:00 |
| London · United Kingdom | −2 h | 07:00 | 11:00–17:00 |
| Paris · France | −1 h | 08:00 | 10:00–17:00 |
| Johannesburg · South Africa | −1 h | 08:00 | 10:00–17:00 |
| Dubai · United Arab Emirates | +1 h | 10:00 | 09:00–16:00 |
| Delhi · India | +2:30 h | 11:30 | 09:00–14:30 |
| Singapore · Singapore | +5 h | 14:00 | 09:00–12:00 |
| Beijing · China | +5 h | 14:00 | 09:00–12:00 |
Shared office hours are shown in Nairobi time. Compare any set of cities hour by hour in the time zone converter, or pick a slot that suits everyone with the event planner.
Clock changes in Nairobi
Nairobi has kept the same UTC +03:00 offset without daylight saving time since at least 1970.
No clock changes are scheduled in 2026 or 2027: Nairobi stays on UTC +03:00 all year.
Source: IANA tz database, as shipped with the Unicode ICU library.
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