Current time in Nairobi, Kenya
11:45:09 AM
Monday, October 26, 2026
Nairobi 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 4.4 million people live in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. The nearest airport with scheduled passenger flights is Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO, 13 km away).
- Time zone
- Africa/Nairobi
- UTC offset now
- UTC+3
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Sunrise today
- 6:12 AM
- Sunset today
- 6:21 PM
- Daylight
- 12 h 9 min
- Population
- 4,397,073
- Currency
- Shilling (KES)
- Dialing code
- +254
- Languages (country)
- English, Swahili
- Airports
- NBO 13 km
Cities near Nairobi
- Kampala11:45 AM · ±0 h503 km away
- Dar es Salaam11:45 AM · ±0 h673 km away
- Kigali10:45 AM · −1 h755 km away
- Addis Ababa11:45 AM · ±0 h1,166 km away
- Kinshasa9:45 AM · −2 h2,412 km away
- Luanda9:45 AM · −2 h2,742 km away
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