| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −2h | Becomes −3h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −1h | Becomes −2h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +1h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +6h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +7h | Becomes +8h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −7h | Becomes −8h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −10h | Becomes −11h on 1 Nov |
Mwanza, Tanzania runs on UTC+3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Mwanza and New York is 7 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 16:00–18:00 in Mwanza lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Mwanza and London is 2 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 7 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 11:00–18:00 in Mwanza lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Mwanza and Tokyo is 6 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–12:00 in Mwanza lines up with 15:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Moscow, Istanbul, Nairobi. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Mwanza.
Mwanza (Tanzania) is home to roughly 1.2M people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:34, sunset at 18:42. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 3° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Tanzania
Capital
Dodoma
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Africa/Dar_es_Salaam
Coordinates
2.52°S, 32.90°E
Currency
TZS (TSh)
Calling Code
+255
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
Swahili, English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Mwanza is built among enormous granite boulders left by erosion, some balanced on top of each other — the Bismarck Rock in the harbour is the best known. It is Tanzania's second city and the main port on Lake Victoria.
The clock: Mwanza keeps UTC+3. Its fishing fleet supplies Nile perch fillets to European supermarkets.
Mwanza lies at 32.9°E. Its time zone, UTC+3, is built around the 45°E meridian. The 12.1° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 48 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:48 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+3 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 12h 16m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 11h 59m. The swing between them is 17 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 Mwanza the sun comes up earliest on 6 November at 06:26, while the latest sunset waits until 9 February at 19:09. 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 Mwanza 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 Mwanza, Tanzania is Africa/Dar_es_Salaam with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Mwanza has an estimated population of 1.2M and is located at coordinates 2.52°S, 32.90°E.
Mwanza gets 12h 16m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 59m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Mwanza falls at about 12:48 on UTC+3 standard time, because the city sits 12.1° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City of Balancing Rocks: Mwanza is built among enormous granite boulders left by erosion, some balanced on top of each other — the Bismarck Rock in the harbour is the best known. It is Tanzania's second city and the main port on Lake Victoria.