Set your watch… when daylight saving time will be implemented (infographic)


Monday, April 15, 2024 12:00 PM

Citizens are waiting for an application date the summer timing 2024 in Egypt after the end of winter time approaches, which has continued for about 6 months since the Council of Ministers decided to implement it last October.

Application starts the summer timing According to the recently issued law regarding the adoption of the daylight saving time system, the legal hour in Egypt is the hour according to the prevailing time advanced by sixty minutes, starting from the last Friday of April, until the end of the last Thursday of October, of each calendar year.


Daylight saving time application date

The end of winter time is approaching, which has continued for about 6 months, since the Council of Ministers’ decision last October to implement winter time, during which the clock was delayed by 60 minutes.

Daylight saving time application date

It is scheduled to begin changing the clock according to daylight saving time, according to the government’s decision, at midnight on Friday, April 26, 2024, and will move the clock forward by a full 60 minutes, and this time will continue until October 28, 2024.

Summer time in Egypt
The government implemented daylight saving time last April, in an attempt to rationalize the consumption of various energy sources, such as electricity, gasoline, diesel and gas.

The adoption of daylight saving time in Egypt came 7 years after its cancellation, and it was implemented during the last Friday of April of last year 2023. The daylight saving time mechanism is based on moving the clock forward by 60 minutes, according to data from the Council of Ministers.

The House of Representatives finally approved the law regarding the daylight saving time system, and it aims to return to the daylight saving time system by moving forward the clock by sixty minutes, starting from the last Friday of April until the last Thursday of October, with the aim of rationalizing energy and economical operation in light of what the world is witnessing. From economic conditions and variables.

On April 16, 2023, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi ratified Law No. 34 of 2023 regarding the daylight saving time system.

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