| 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 |
Goma, DR Congo runs on UTC+2. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+2 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Goma 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 Goma lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Goma 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 Goma lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Goma 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 Goma 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 Goma.
Goma (DR Congo) is home to roughly 670K people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:49, 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 2° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
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DR Congo
Capital
Kinshasa
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Africa/Kigali
Coordinates
1.66°S, 29.22°E
Currency
CDF (FC)
Calling Code
+243
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Nyiragongo above Goma holds one of the world's few persistent lava lakes, and its 2002 eruption sent lava through the middle of the city. Lake Kivu below holds enormous dissolved methane and CO₂ deposits that are being tapped for power.
The clock: Goma keeps UTC+2. The Virunga park next door is Africa's oldest national park and holds a large share of the world's mountain gorillas.
Goma lies at 29.2°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 13m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 12h 2m. The swing between them is 12 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 Goma the sun comes up earliest on 5 November at 05:42, while the latest sunset waits until 10 February at 18:22. 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 Goma 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 Goma, DR Congo is Africa/Kigali with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Goma has an estimated population of 670K and is located at coordinates 1.66°S, 29.22°E.
Goma gets 12h 13m of daylight on its longest day and 12h 2m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Goma falls at about 12:03 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 0.8° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City Between a Volcano and a Lake: Nyiragongo above Goma holds one of the world's few persistent lava lakes, and its 2002 eruption sent lava through the middle of the city.