| 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 |
Harare, 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 Harare 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 Harare lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Harare 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 Harare lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Harare 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 Harare 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 Harare.
Harare (Zimbabwe) is home to roughly 1.9M people. Today brings about 12.2 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:38, sunset at 17:53. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+2 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 18° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Zimbabwe
Capital
Harare 👑
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Africa/Harare
Coordinates
17.82°S, 31.05°E
Currency
ZWG (ZiG)
Calling Code
+263
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
English, Shona, Ndebele
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Harare was founded as Fort Salisbury in 1890 and renamed in 1982, two years after independence. Great Zimbabwe, the stone city that gives the country its name, lies about 300 km south and was built between the 11th and 15th centuries.
The clock: Harare keeps UTC+2 at about 1,490 metres — high enough that its climate is subtropical highland rather than tropical.
Harare lies at 31.0°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 11:56, 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 13h 12m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 11h 4m. The swing between them is 2h 8m. 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 Harare the sun comes up earliest on 25 November at 05:12, while the latest sunset waits until 20 January at 18:37. 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 Harare 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 Harare, Zimbabwe is Africa/Harare with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Harare has an estimated population of 1.9M and is located at coordinates 17.82°S, 31.05°E. It is the capital city of Zimbabwe.
Harare gets 13h 12m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 4m on its shortest, averaging 12h 6m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Harare falls at about 11:56 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 1.0° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City That Was Once Salisbury: Harare was founded as Fort Salisbury in 1890 and renamed in 1982, two years after independence.