Current time in Khartoum, Sudan
The current local time in Khartoum is shown below. Khartoum observes CAT.
What's the daylight saving status?
Khartoum does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- Africa/Khartoum
- Standard abbreviation
- CAT
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇸🇩 Sudan
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Khartoum?
Sudan changed its clocks in 2017, moving from UTC+3 to UTC+2 and aligning the country with Central Africa Time and with Egypt to the north in winter, a shift driven partly by economic ties. The single offset applies across the whole country, which observes no daylight saving. At around 32 degrees east the capital sits near the meridian for its current offset, so the civil clock and the sun stay closely matched through the year.
What are the working hours in Khartoum?
The week runs Sunday to Thursday in this Muslim-majority country, with Friday and Saturday the weekend and the Friday midday prayers widely observed. Government, agriculture along the Nile, and trade anchor a working day that typically begins early, around 08:00, to make use of the cooler morning before the fierce afternoon heat. The two Eid festivals are the largest holidays, their dates sliding earlier each year, and Independence Day on 1 January opens the secular calendar. The fierce Saharan summer pushes the working day earlier still through the hottest months.
Where is Khartoum?
Khartoum stands at the meeting of the Blue Nile and the White Nile, which join here before flowing north as the single Nile through Egypt to the Mediterranean. The capital of Sudan forms a tri-city area with Omdurman and Khartoum North across the rivers, together holding well over 5 million people. The confluence sits at the edge of the Sahara, in a flat, hot landscape where the rivers are the defining feature of settlement and agriculture.