| 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 |
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe runs on UTC+2. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+2 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Bulawayo 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 Bulawayo lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Bulawayo 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 Bulawayo lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Bulawayo 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 Bulawayo 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 Bulawayo.
Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) is home to roughly 650K people. Today brings about 12.3 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:47, sunset at 18:03. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+2 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 20° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
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Zimbabwe
Capital
Harare
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Africa/Harare
Coordinates
20.15°S, 28.58°E
Currency
ZWG (ZiG)
Calling Code
+263
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
English, Shona, Ndebele
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Bulawayo's name translates roughly as the place of killing, from a Ndebele succession conflict in the 1870s. The city was laid out with streets wide enough to turn a full ox-wagon span, which is why its grid is unusually generous.
The clock: Bulawayo keeps UTC+2. Matobo Hills nearby holds one of the highest concentrations of rock art in southern Africa, some of it over 13,000 years old.
Bulawayo lies at 28.6°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 1.4° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 6 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:06 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+2 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 13h 21m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 10h 55m. The swing between them is 2h 26m. Inside the tropics the day length stays within a narrow band all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Bulawayo the sun comes up earliest on 27 November at 05:17, while the latest sunset waits until 17 January at 18:51. 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 Bulawayo that civil twilight runs about 22 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 Bulawayo, Zimbabwe is Africa/Harare with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Bulawayo has an estimated population of 650K and is located at coordinates 20.15°S, 28.58°E.
Bulawayo gets 13h 21m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 55m on its shortest, averaging 12h 6m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Bulawayo falls at about 12:06 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 1.4° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Place of Slaughter: Bulawayo's name translates roughly as the place of killing, from a Ndebele succession conflict in the 1870s.