Cairo in numbers
- Coordinates
- 33.6701, -88.8976
- Elevation
- 78 m above sea level
- Region
- Mississippi
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1210 km away
- Same name
- 32 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Cairo, Mississippi, United States
This page shows what the clocks read right now in Cairo, Mississippi, United States, in the America/Chicago zone (−5).
Cairo, United States
Thursday, 29 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Chicago
Local time in Cairo
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
Cairo keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:13 AM Solar noon 12:40 PM Sunset 6:08 PM Daylight 10 h 55 min Night 13 h 05 min Civil twilight 6:47 AM – 6:33 PM
Weather in Cairo right now
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Cairo and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 12413
- 26337
- 39827
- 39828
- 45820
- 62914
- 65239
- 68824
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in Mississippi
- Jackson 153 701
- Gulfport 71 856
- West Gulfport 71 329
- Southaven 52 589
- Hattiesburg 46 805
- Biloxi 45 637
Other places named Cairo
- Cairo Cairo, Egypt
- Cairo Georgia, United States
- Cairo Illinois, United States
- Cairo New York, United States
- Cairo Nebraska, United States
Same time zone — America/Chicago
- Chicago United States
- Houston United States
- San Antonio United States
- Dallas United States
- Fort Worth United States
- Austin United States
Nearby places
- Beasley — 3.3 km
- Hopewell — 4.3 km
- Palestine — 5.0 km
- Montpelier — 7.1 km
- Walkers Gin — 7.4 km
- Griffith — 7.5 km
Time and daylight in Cairo
In Cairo today the sun is out from 7:13 AM until 6:08 PM. That comes to 10 h 55 min of daylight.
Neighbouring Beasley and Hopewell keep the same hours as Cairo.
Cairo spans 8 postal codes.
Clocks in Cairo follow America/Chicago, an offset of UTC−5 from Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving time here: Yes.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is Cairo in?
- Cairo is in the America/Chicago time zone, with an offset of −5.
- Are daylight saving rules used in Cairo?
- Daylight saving time in Cairo: Yes.
- What is the local sunset time in Cairo?
- Local sunset is 6:08 PM.