What time is it in Uganda?

Uganda stays on UTC+3:00 all year. Its offset from UTC never moves, so its relationship to places that do change shifts twice a year instead — which is usually why someone checks. Right now it is 3 hours ahead of UTC, and 8 hours ahead of New York.

Kampala is 8 hours ahead of New York and 11 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 5:00 pm in Kampala.

To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.

The day is 12 hours 6 minutes long in Kampala, and holding steady — within a minute of yesterday’s. The sun peaks at 12:34 pm, 34 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Kampala sits 50 minutes of solar time west of UTC+3:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

Kampala is close enough to the equator that the solar year barely happens: the longest day of 2026 is 12 hours 8 minutes and the shortest 12 hours 6 minutes — a swing of 2 minutes across the whole year, against more than nine hours in northern Europe. There is no long summer evening here and no dark afternoon in December; sunset lands at much the same time every day.

Uganda’s offset has not moved once since 1970 — no daylight saving, and no change of zone.

On UTC+3:00 right now, the same clock as Uganda: