Current time in Kampala, Uganda
11:44:13 AM
Monday, October 26, 2026
Kampala is on East Africa Time, UTC+3. It doesn't change its clocks: the time zone database has no changes scheduled for the next 12 months.
About 1.7 million people live in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. The nearest airport with scheduled passenger flights is Entebbe International Airport (EBB, 34 km away).
- Time zone
- Africa/Kampala
- UTC offset now
- UTC+3
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Sunrise today
- 6:30 AM
- Sunset today
- 6:36 PM
- Daylight
- 12 h 6 min
- Population
- 1,680,600
- Currency
- Shilling (UGX)
- Dialing code
- +256
- Languages (country)
- English, Ganda
- Airports
- EBB 34 km
Cities near Kampala
- Kigali10:44 AM · −1 h377 km away
- Nairobi11:44 AM · ±0 h503 km away
- Dar es Salaam11:44 AM · ±0 h1,087 km away
- Addis Ababa11:44 AM · ±0 h1,185 km away
- Kinshasa9:44 AM · −2 h1,987 km away
- Luanda9:44 AM · −2 h2,372 km away
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