| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −1h | Becomes −2h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | ±0h | Becomes −1h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +2h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +7h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +8h | Becomes +9h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −6h | Becomes −7h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −9h | Becomes −10h on 1 Nov |
Bujumbura, Burundi runs on UTC+2. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+2 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Bujumbura and New York is 6 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 15:00–18:00 in Bujumbura lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Bujumbura and London is 1 hour. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 8 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 10:00–18:00 in Bujumbura lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Bujumbura and Tokyo is 7 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–11:00 in Bujumbura lines up with 16:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Johannesburg, Windhoek, Cape Town. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Bujumbura.
Bujumbura (Burundi) is home to roughly 1.1M people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:48, sunset at 17:56. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+2 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 3° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Burundi
Capital
Gitega
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Africa/Bujumbura
Coordinates
3.38°S, 29.36°E
Currency
BIF (FBu)
Calling Code
+257
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
Kirundi, French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Lake Tanganyika reaches about 1,470 metres deep, second only to Baikal, and holds roughly 16% of the world's available fresh surface water. Bujumbura sits at its northern end.
The clock: Bujumbura keeps UTC+2. Burundi moved its political capital inland to Gitega in 2019, leaving Bujumbura as the economic one.
Bujumbura lies at 29.4°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The two very nearly coincide: solar noon — the moment the sun is highest — falls at about 12:03, which is as close to true solar time as a zone this wide can get. The zone holds UTC+2 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 12h 19m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 11h 56m. The swing between them is 23 minutes. Within a few degrees of the equator the length of the day barely moves all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Bujumbura the sun comes up earliest on 7 November at 05:39, while the latest sunset waits until 7 February at 18:24. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Bujumbura that civil twilight runs about 21 minutes at the equinox.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Bujumbura, Burundi is Africa/Bujumbura with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Bujumbura has an estimated population of 1.1M and is located at coordinates 3.38°S, 29.36°E.
Bujumbura gets 12h 19m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 56m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Bujumbura falls at about 12:03 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 0.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
On the Second-Deepest Lake: Lake Tanganyika reaches about 1,470 metres deep, second only to Baikal, and holds roughly 16% of the world's available fresh surface water. Bujumbura sits at its northern end.