Nairobi

Kenya • East Africa Time

Time Zone

Nairobi uses East Africa Time (EAT), currently running at UTC+3 (year-round). Kenya does not observe daylight saving time. EAT (UTC+3) is fixed throughout the year.

Business & Commerce

Nairobi, Kenya's capital and East Africa's dominant commercial hub, operates on East Africa Time (EAT, UTC+3) year-round with no daylight saving time. EAT makes Nairobi three hours ahead of London (GMT) and eight hours ahead of New York (EST) in winter, aligning its business day comfortably with European late-morning and early-afternoon hours. East Africa Time is shared across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, and several neighboring countries, making it the effective standard timezone for a vast region of sub-Saharan Africa. The Nairobi Securities Exchange is one of the more active exchanges in sub-Saharan Africa, and Nairobi has emerged as a notable technology and startup hub in the region — sometimes called the Silicon Savannah — drawing international investment and increasing the global scheduling relevance of EAT. At the same offset as Istanbul and Moscow (UTC+3), Nairobi actually shares its clock number with some of the world's most significant financial capitals, though without any DST adjustment.