Kigali — Africa/Kigali
The current local time in the Africa/Kigali IANA time zone is shown below. It is the tz database identifier used in Rwanda in the area around Kigali. The zone is currently at UTC +02:00 · CAT and does not observe daylight saving time.
Africa/Kigali
Thursday, 22 October 2026 CAT
Zone information
Offset & DST
Current UTC offset: +02:00
Daylight saving: Not observed
Countries using Africa/Kigali
Kigali vs. major cities
How far Kigali is from the world's main business centres right now, what time it is there when the working day starts in Kigali, and which hours of a 09:00–17:00 day the two places share. Daylight saving changes are applied automatically.
| City | Difference | At 09:00 in Kigali | Shared office hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York · United States | −6 h | 03:00 | 15:00–17:00 |
| Los Angeles · United States | −9 h | 00:00 | None |
| São Paulo · Brazil | −5 h | 04:00 | 14:00–17:00 |
| London · United Kingdom | −1 h | 08:00 | 10:00–17:00 |
| Paris · France | Same time | 09:00 | 09:00–17:00 |
| Johannesburg · South Africa | Same time | 09:00 | 09:00–17:00 |
| Dubai · United Arab Emirates | +2 h | 11:00 | 09:00–15:00 |
| Delhi · India | +3:30 h | 12:30 | 09:00–13:30 |
| Singapore · Singapore | +6 h | 15:00 | 09:00–11:00 |
| Beijing · China | +6 h | 15:00 | 09:00–11:00 |
Shared office hours are shown in Kigali time. Compare any set of cities hour by hour in the time zone converter, or pick a slot that suits everyone with the event planner.
Clock changes in Kigali
Kigali has kept the same UTC +02:00 offset without daylight saving time since at least 1970.
No clock changes are scheduled in 2026 or 2027: Kigali stays on UTC +02:00 all year.
Source: IANA tz database, as shipped with the Unicode ICU library.
Zones on the same clock as Kigali
All IANA zones →These zones show the same time as Africa/Kigali on every day of 2026. Their histories may differ.
Africa/Blantyre Bujumbura Africa/Bujumbura Gaborone Africa/Gaborone Harare Africa/Harare Johannesburg Africa/Johannesburg Juba Africa/Juba Khartoum Africa/Khartoum Lubumbashi Africa/Lubumbashi Lusaka Africa/Lusaka Maputo Africa/Maputo Maseru Africa/Maseru Mbabane Africa/Mbabane Tripoli Africa/Tripoli Windhoek Africa/Windhoek Kaliningrad Europe/Kaliningrad More references for Africa/Kigali
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