🕚 Cairo to Berlin Time Converter

Berlin is 1 hour behind Cairo for most of the year: when it is 10:00 am in Cairo it is 9:00 am in Berlin. In offset terms Cairo is on UTC+02:00 and Berlin is on UTC+01:00 in January, and UTC+03:00 and UTC+02:00 in July. The converter above works from your browser’s own time zone data, so the figure it shows is the one in force today rather than the one that was in force when this page was written.

The difference is not constant, because both cities observe daylight saving but not on the same dates. In 2026, Cairo changes on 24 April and 30 October and Berlin changes on 29 March and 25 October. That leaves 5 distinct periods in the year, including 2 short ones of a few weeks, and the table below gives the exact dates. It is the short windows that catch people out: a recurring call booked in one city’s clock silently moves in the other’s.

For arranging anything, the number that matters is the overlap. Cairo works 09:00 to 17:00 and Berlin works 08:00 to 17:00, which leaves 09:00 to 17:00 in Cairo — 08:00 to 16:00 in Berlin — as the window when both are open. That is 8 hours of shared working time. The working weeks differ: Cairo works Sunday to Thursday while Berlin works Monday to Friday, which leaves three shared days at each end of the week and two mismatched ones.

Two local details worth knowing. Egypt reinstated daylight saving in 2023 after eight years without it, so older conversion tables for Cairo are wrong for part of the year. German offices start early and finish early; 17:00 in Berlin is often past the end of the working day rather than the middle of it.

The safest way to write a time for these two cities is to give both, as in "10:00 Cairo / 09:00 Berlin", or to give the UTC offset. Abbreviations are the trap: Cairo is on EET for part of the year and EEST for the rest, and the same three letters are reused in other parts of the world for entirely different offsets.

The formula

local Cairo

The time you enter, on the Cairo clock

offset

Each city’s UTC offset at that moment, read live from the IANA time zone database in your browser

−1

The difference in hours that holds for most of 2026: Berlin is 1 hour behind Cairo

day shift

Whether the converted time falls on the previous, same or next calendar day in Berlin

How it works, step by step

1. Enter a time in Cairo using the 24-hour hour box and the minute box — 15:30 is hour 15, minute 30.
2. Your browser reports the UTC offset in force in Cairo and in Berlin for that moment, so a date near a daylight saving transition is handled correctly rather than with a fixed 1 hour rule.
3. The second offset minus the first gives the difference, which is added to the time you entered. A result past midnight is marked as the next or previous day, because that is where most conversion mistakes live.
4. The panel also shows the current time in both cities, the date in Berlin, and whether the two offices are open at the same moment.

Worked examples

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Frequently asked questions

Cairo to Berlin: every hour, every period of 2026, and meeting slots

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