| 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 |
Mutare, 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 Mutare 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 Mutare lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Mutare 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 Mutare lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Mutare 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 Mutare 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 Mutare.
Mutare (Zimbabwe) is home to roughly 225K people. Today brings about 12.2 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:31, sunset at 17:46. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+2 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 19° 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
18.97°S, 32.67°E
Currency
ZWG (ZiG)
Calling Code
+263
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
English, Shona, Ndebele
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Mutare was physically relocated in 1896 — buildings and all — several kilometres to be closer to the new railway line from Beira. The residents were compensated with free plots at the new site.
The clock: Mutare keeps UTC+2 in the Eastern Highlands, the wettest and greenest part of Zimbabwe.
Mutare lies at 32.7°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 2.7° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 11 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:49 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 16m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 10h 59m. The swing between them is 2h 17m. 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 Mutare the sun comes up earliest on 26 November at 05:03, while the latest sunset waits until 18 January at 18:33. 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 Mutare 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 Mutare, Zimbabwe is Africa/Harare with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Mutare has an estimated population of 225K and is located at coordinates 18.97°S, 32.67°E.
Mutare gets 13h 16m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 59m on its shortest, averaging 12h 6m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Mutare falls at about 11:49 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 2.7° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City That Moved to Meet a Railway: Mutare was physically relocated in 1896 — buildings and all — several kilometres to be closer to the new railway line from Beira. The residents were compensated with free plots at the new site.