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Nairobi — Africa/Nairobi

The current local time in the Africa/Nairobi IANA time zone is shown below. It is the tz database identifier used in Kenya. The zone is currently at UTC +03:00 · EAT and does not observe daylight saving time.

Africa/Nairobi

18:38:56

Thursday, 22 October 2026 EAT

Zone information

IANA designation

Africa/Nairobi

Region: Africa

Offset & DST

Current UTC offset: +03:00

Daylight saving: Not observed

Countries using Africa/Nairobi

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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