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CURRENT LOCAL TIME

Time in Gulu, Uganda

· East Africa Time

EAT · UTC+3—— H FROM YOUAFRICA/KAMPALA

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Gulu against your time zone

Reading your time zone to compare it with Gulu…

Gulu compared with your time zone, hour by hour, with the working-hour overlap shaded
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Gulu time zone facts

IANA time zoneAfrica/Kampala
Offset nowUTC+3 (EAT)
Offset all yearUTC+3 (EAT)
Next clock changeNone — this zone does not change clocks
CountryUganda (UG)
Population146,858
Coordinates2.77, 32.30
Places in this zone3

Best hours to reach Gulu

From New York
7 hours behind Gulu · their morning
16:00–18:00
09:00–11:00 EDT
From San Francisco
10 hours behind Gulu · their morning
19:00–21:00
09:00–11:00 PDT
From Bengaluru
2½ hours ahead of Gulu · their morning
09:00–16:00
11:00–18:00 IST

Local times in Gulu on the left, the caller’s own clock on the right. Computed from the working-hour overlap for today’s offsets.

About time in Gulu

Gulu keeps East Africa Time, UTC+3 from UTC all year. The offset never changes, so any difference between you and Gulu moves only when your own clocks do.

Gulu shares the zone Africa/Kampala with Kampala, Lira, so a time here is also the time there. One canonical page per zone keeps the difference honest: the settlement name changes, the clock does not.

Offsets and daylight saving rules come from the IANA time zone database — see IANA time zone notes for what that data does and does not promise about future dates.

Gulu converted to other zones

Each opens a comparison page with both cities on one timeline.

Cities on the same offset today

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COMMON QUESTIONS

What time is it in Gulu right now?

The clock at the top of this page reads the current time in Gulu to the second. Gulu is on East Africa Time, UTC+3 — the same clock as every other place in the zone Africa/Kampala.

Does Gulu observe daylight saving time?

No. Gulu stays on UTC+3 all year, so the difference between you and Gulu only changes when your own clocks do.

What time zone is Gulu in?

Gulu uses the IANA zone Africa/Kampala, currently EAT (UTC+3). Abbreviations are for reading — the zone identifier is the unambiguous name, and it is what you should store in your own systems.

Which other places read the same time as Gulu?

Kampala, Lira all sit in Africa/Kampala, so they read exactly the same clock, daylight saving changes included.