Ramadan 2027 Schedule Planner for Teams in Egypt

A foreign manager usually notices three things in the first week. The team is sharp and fast in the late morning. Replies slow down noticeably in the hour or two before sunset. And some people are online, and surprisingly productive, late in the evening. All three follow from the shape of a fasting day. People eat suhoor before Fajr, which falls between about 5:13 AM and 4:47 AM in Cairo across the month, often after a short night. They fast until sunset, and then iftar is a family meal that nobody schedules work across. Egyptian cities stay awake late: in 2026 the government let shops, malls, restaurants, and cafes stay open until 2 AM throughout Ramadan and Eid, as Egyptian Streets reported.

The legal position is simpler than many guides make it sound. Egypt's Labour Law No. 14 of 2025 keeps the general limit at eight working hours a day and 48 a week, excluding rest breaks. It does not set a separate Ramadan timetable for private employers. As WUZZUF's guide to the new law puts it, the law does not explicitly state working hours for Ramadan, but most industries apply a shorter day anyway. The figures you will hear are seven hours or six hours a day.

The public sector gives a useful reference point. In Ramadan 2024 the Cabinet set government working hours at 9 am to 2 pm, according to Ahram Online, and for Ramadan 2026 the Central Bank of Egypt set bank staff hours at 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, with customer service from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm, as Amwal Al Ghad reported. Your team's family, bank, and children's schools run on that rhythm, even if your contract does not.

What applies to your team is what your agreement says. If you employ directly, that is your contract and your internal policy. If the team is employed through a provider, it is the provider's policy, and you should ask for it in writing before the month starts. This page is planning guidance, not legal advice, and the planner deliberately lets you model an unchanged 8-hour day as well as shortened ones.

Eid al-Fitr is the other fixed point. Egypt sets the official paid holiday by decree each year. In 2026 the Labour Minister announced a paid Eid al-Fitr holiday from March 19 to 23 for private-sector workers, matching the public sector. That is five days. The Egypt public holidays calculator lists the 2026 schedule and shows how a multi-day Eid range removes working days from a project window.

US East Coast. This is the region that is most often caught out. Iftar in Cairo is between 10:38 AM and 10:59 AM New York time. A 9:00 AM Eastern standup is 4:00 PM in Cairo, which is late in a fasting day and less than two hours before iftar. Worse, if the team moves to a 9-to-3 Ramadan day, it ends at 8:00 AM your time and your overlap drops from one hour to zero. The planner shows two ways out: a split day with an evening block after iftar, which gives about three live hours from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM Eastern, or an Americas shift with the iftar break cut out, which gives about four.

US Central and Pacific. On a normal day there is little or no overlap with a 9-to-5 Cairo team, so most US companies west of the East Coast already use an afternoon or evening Egyptian shift. During Ramadan that shift crosses iftar, so it either needs a break in the middle or needs to start after iftar. In Los Angeles, iftar in Cairo is between 7:38 AM and 7:59 AM, before most of your day starts, which makes an evening Egyptian block the natural fit.

UK and Europe. Iftar in Cairo is 3:38 PM to 3:59 PM in London and 4:38 PM to 4:59 PM in Berlin. A 9-to-3 Ramadan day still leaves about four live hours with London and five with Berlin, so the main change is moving afternoon calls into the morning. The common mistake is the 3:00 PM London or 4:00 PM Berlin call that has always been fine and now lands in the hour before the team breaks its fast.

The Gulf. Riyadh, Doha, and Kuwait share Egypt's Friday and Saturday weekend and keep about six live hours a day on a 9-to-3 Egyptian day. Dubai and Abu Dhabi run a Saturday and Sunday weekend, so you share four working days a week with Egypt instead of five. Gulf teams are usually on reduced Ramadan hours themselves, so set your own end time in the planner to match.

Singapore and Sydney. Iftar in Cairo is close to midnight in Singapore and after 2:30 AM in Sydney, so it rarely collides with your day. Your overlap with Egypt sits at the start of the Egyptian morning, so a shortened day that still starts at 9:00 AM keeps it, while a 10:00 AM start removes an hour of it in Singapore. For Sydney, a normal 9-to-5 in Cairo has no overlap with a Sydney 9-to-5 at this time of year, and async handoffs are the realistic plan.

For each day of Ramadan, the planner calculates when the sun sets and when it reaches 19.5 degrees below the horizon before dawn, at the centre of the Egyptian city you choose. Sunset marks iftar. The 19.5 degree depression is the Fajr convention of the Egyptian General Authority of Survey, listed in the PrayTimes.org table of calculation methods. The solar position uses the equations documented by the NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, with the standard 0.833 degree allowance for refraction and the size of the sun at sunset. In our test suite, the results match a published Egyptian-method timetable to the minute for Cairo, Alexandria, and Aswan.

Every time is then converted to your clock with the time zone database built into your browser, so daylight saving is handled for you. The team's available hours are the Ramadan pattern you pick, minus Egypt's Friday and Saturday weekend, minus the window you keep clear before iftar, minus a 60-minute iftar break. Your available hours are your working day minus your local weekend. The live overlap is the intersection of the two, and the slot that works all month is the clock time that sits inside the overlap on every day when both sides are working.

Day 30 is shown separately because it is either the last day of Ramadan or the first day of Eid al-Fitr, which is only known the evening before. Totals cover days 1 to 29. Sources were last checked on Friday, November 13, 2026.

• Moonsighting.org.uk, Ramadan 1448 crescent forecast (new moon 6 February 2027, 15:56 UT)
• Gulf News, Emirates Astronomical Society forecast for Ramadan and Eid 2027 (updated 10 October 2026)
• Dar al-Ifta al-Misriyyah, which announces the start of Ramadan in Egypt
• WUZZUF Careers, working hours under the new Egyptian labor law (18 November 2025)
• Ahram Online, Cabinet sets government working hours at 9 am to 2 pm during Ramadan (2024)
• Amwal Al Ghad, Central Bank of Egypt Ramadan 2026 banking hours (15 February 2026)
• Egyptian Streets, shops and cafes open until 2 AM through Ramadan and Eid 2026 (16 February 2026)
• Ahram Online, 19 to 23 March 2026 paid Eid al-Fitr holiday for private-sector workers
• PrayTimes.org, prayer time calculation methods (Egyptian General Authority of Survey: Fajr 19.5, Isha 17.5)
• NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, solar calculation details