Kafr el-Sheikh, Egypt
Kafr el-Sheikh uses Egypt’s national time in every district. Its Delta cities and Mediterranean-side communities share the Cairo time-zone rules, though sunrise is calculated separately for each date and location.
Kafr Ash Shaykh, Egypt
Friday, 6 November 2026
UTC+2 · Africa/Cairo
Time and sun data for Kafr Ash Shaykh — the largest city of Kafr el-Sheikh
The sun in Kafr Ash Shaykh
Sunrise 6:17 AM Solar noon 11:41 AM Sunset 5:05 PM Daylight 10 h 48 min Night 13 h 12 min Civil twilight 5:52 AM – 5:31 PM
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Current time in Kafr el-Sheikh, Egypt
A Kafr el-Sheikh clock shows the civil time observed in the governorate’s capital, its inland towns, and communities nearer the northern coast. The region has no internal time-zone divisions and no municipal clock-change policy of its own.
Egypt’s standard zone is Eastern European Time. If national daylight-saving time applies on the selected date, local clocks follow it together with the rest of Egypt. Current software should use Africa/Cairo so that the displayed offset reflects the date rather than a permanent assumption.
Delta roads may take the scenic route; the governorate’s clocks take the same route as Cairo’s.
Main cities on a shared clock
Kafr el-Sheikh city is the administrative capital. Desouk and Baltim are among the governorate’s other prominent urban centres, alongside Fuwwah, Biyala, El Hamoul, Metoubes, Qallin, Riyadh, and Sidi Salem. All observe the same official hour.
Names may appear in more than one English spelling because Arabic place names can be transliterated in different ways. This does not imply separate places or separate time settings. When using a weather or sunrise service, choose the result located in Kafr el-Sheikh governorate, Egypt.
Use the governorate capital for a broad regional time reference. Select the nearest town for a more precise solar calculation. Confirm the country when several search results have similar names. Keep location services accurate if sunrise is calculated automatically.
Reading the sunrise time
Sunrise varies over the calendar because Earth’s orientation changes the Sun’s apparent path. It also differs slightly between northern coastal locations and towns farther inland. These solar differences do not affect the civil time zone.
A published sunrise normally refers to the moment the Sun’s upper edge is calculated to appear at a clear horizon, with standard astronomical conventions applied. It is not the same as dawn, which begins earlier, and it is not necessarily the moment sunlight reaches ground level beside a building.
Coastal haze, cloud, trees, and nearby structures can conceal the solar disk after the calculated time. For farming, fishing, travel, or photography, treat the table as a planning reference and then consider local visibility and the actual horizon.
Questions and answers
- Is Kafr el-Sheikh in a separate northern time zone?
- No. Northern and southern parts of Egypt use the same national civil time.
- Do Desouk and Baltim show the same clock time?
- Yes. Their clocks agree, although their calculated sunrise moments can differ slightly.
- Is dawn the same as sunrise?
- No. Dawn is the period of growing light before the Sun reaches the horizon; sunrise is a specific calculated event.