Spring Forward: Egypt’s 2024 DST Switch – A Guide to Prayer Times and Clock Changes
A few hours separate us from the date of the official implementation of winter time in 2024, as Egypt’s legal clock is one hour, sixty minutes late to conventional time, today, the last Thursday in October, starting at exactly 12 midnight, instead of twelve o’clock Friday morning when the clocks are 60 minutes late. It’s eleven o’clock on Thursday evening.
Winter time in Egypt 2024
Winter time is implemented in Egypt in 2024 and the clock is set back 60 minutes to take advantage of the natural sunlight during dawn and daylight hours. This contributes to reducing the dependence on energy used by working in the early hours, thus saving money and benefiting from it.
Time to change the clock
Egypt’s clocks are changed by law twice a year, the first with the start of summer time and the second with the start of winter time.
The House of Representatives has finally approved a draft law on the Daylight Saving Time System, which aims to restore the clocks from the last Friday of April to the last Thursday of October by 60 minutes to rationalize and manage energy. In light of world economic conditions and variability.
On April 16, 2023, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi approved Law No. 24 of 2023 regarding the Daylight Saving Time System.
When does winter start?
Thus, according to Law No. 24 of 2023 on setting the summer time system, winter time will be implemented with a delay of 60 minutes, and winter time will be implemented with a delay today, the last Thursday of October. 60 minutes.
Time to change the clock
Clocks are changed to winter time at midnight tonight by following these steps:
- Enter the settings menu on your mobile phone.
- Choose the time and date of the change.
- Change time from 12:00 midnight to 11:00 pm.
- Thus, Egypt’s clocks were changed to winter time.
Prayer times after the winter solstice of 2024
Midnight… DST Implementation Date in Egypt in 2024 (Prayer Times and Clock Change Steps)Many citizens are thinking about prayer times after the clock change, which will be implemented tomorrow, Friday, the first of November, the first working day of winter time, with Fajr prayer, noon prayer, afternoon prayer, sunset prayer and evening prayer. , according to the Egyptian General Authority for Surveying as follows:
Prayer time in Cairo after clock change
- Fajr prayer time is 4:41 AM
- Zohr prayer time is 11:38 am
- Asr prayer time 45:2
- Maghrib prayer time is 5:08 PM
- Isha prayer time is 6:27
Prayer time in Alexandria after clock change
- Fajr prayer time is 4:46 AM
- Zohr prayer time is 11:44
- Asr prayer time is 2:49
- Maghrib prayer time is 5:12 PM
- Isha prayer time is 6:31 PM.
Prayer time in Ismailia after clock change
- Fajr prayer time is 4:37
- Zohr prayer time is 11:35 PM
- Asr prayer time is 2:40 PM
- Maghrib prayer time is 5:03 PM
- Isha prayer time is 6:22 pm.
Sharm El Sheikh prayer time after clock change
- Fajr prayer time is 4:27
- Zuhr prayer time is 11:26
- Asr prayer time is 2:35 PM
- Maghrib prayer time is 4:59 PM
- Isha prayer time is 6:16 pm.
Prayer time in Aswan after clock change
- Fajr prayer time is 4:31 AM
- Zohr prayer time is 11:32 AM
- Asr prayer time 45:2
- Maghrib prayer time is 5:9 PM
- Isha prayer time is 6:24
Prayer times during the winter season of 2024
Prayer times in different governorates after the winter period of 2024 can be viewed through the official page of the Egyptian General Authority for Surveying here.