| 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 |
Kigali, Rwanda runs on UTC+2. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+2 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Kigali 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 Kigali lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Kigali 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 Kigali lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Kigali 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 Kigali 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 Kigali.
Kigali (Rwanda) is home to roughly 1.2M people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:46, 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 2° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Rwanda
Capital
Kigali 👑
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Africa/Kigali
Coordinates
1.94°S, 30.06°E
Currency
RWF (FRw)
Calling Code
+250
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
Kinyarwanda, French, English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Rwanda banned non-biodegradable plastic bags in 2008, one of the earliest and strictest such bans anywhere, and enforces it at the airport. Kigali is regularly described as one of the cleanest cities in Africa.
The clock: Kigali keeps UTC+2. The last Saturday of each month is umuganda, a national community work morning when most traffic stops.
Kigali lies at 30.1°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 12:00, 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 14m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 12h 1m. The swing between them is 13 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 Kigali the sun comes up earliest on 5 November at 05:38, while the latest sunset waits until 10 February at 18:19. 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 Kigali 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 Kigali, Rwanda is Africa/Kigali with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Kigali has an estimated population of 1.2M and is located at coordinates 1.94°S, 30.06°E. It is the capital city of Rwanda.
Kigali gets 12h 14m of daylight on its longest day and 12h 1m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Kigali falls at about 12:00 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 0.1° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City That Bans Plastic Bags: Rwanda banned non-biodegradable plastic bags in 2008, one of the earliest and strictest such bans anywhere, and enforces it at the airport. Kigali is regularly described as one of the cleanest cities in Africa.