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Kigali, Ruanda
09:44:30 PMWednesday, April 29, 2026 · Africa/Kigali

Kigali
Capital and largest city of Rwanda
Hora local actual
09:44:30 PM
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Zona horaria
CAT
Africa/Kigali · UTC+02:00
Próximo festivo
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Solapamiento laboral ahora
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Kigali right now
Aeropuerto más cercano
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Kigali
Aeropuertos indexados
0
Curated airport references available for Ruanda
Snapshot at render time: 09:44:30 PM on Wednesday, April 29, 2026 in Kigali (UTC+02:00, CAT).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
Current weather
17°C, Overcast
Feels like 20°C · Humidity 97% · Wind 2 km/h
Sunrise and sunset
05:55 AM to 05:58 PM
Day length 12h 3m · Solar noon 11:57 AM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Kigali local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
1.1M
Coordinates
-1.95, 30.06
Timezone
Africa/Kigali
Aeropuertos indexados
0
Capital
Kigali
Languages
English, French
Currency
RWF (Fr)
Country area
26,338 km²
For Ruanda, Kigali (rank #1 by population in this dataset) reads CAT, UTC+02:00 on the IANA zone Africa/Kigali, and the city's roughly 1.1M residents make it a practical scheduling anchor.
Kigali sits at 1.95°S, 30.06°E; that's the deep tropics (Equatorial Hemisphere, ~216 km from the equator) and the daylight pattern reflects year-round daylight that barely shifts between seasons.
Today the sun rises around 05:55 AM and sets around 05:58 PM in Kigali — about 12h 3m of daylight. Ruanda stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Kamuhanda / Ruyenzi (8 km from Kigali) gives this page its nearest commuter and travel cluster, with no airport pages currently indexed for Ruanda.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Timezone
CAT
IANA Zone
Africa/Kigali
UTC Offset
UTC+02:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
Quarter
Q2
London
-1h
New York
-6h
Los Angeles
-9h
Dubai
+2h
Singapore
+6h
Tokyo
+7h
Sydney
+8h
São Paulo
-5h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Kigali.
Kigali, officially the City of Kigali also known as Kigali City, is the capital, largest city, and a province-level administrative unit of Rwanda. It is located near the country's geographic centre, in a landscape of rolling hills marked by valleys and ridges connected by steep slopes. As Rwanda's primate city, Kigali is a relatively young urban centre. Founded in 1907 as a German administrative outpost, it served as a minor administrative centre until it became the national capital at independence in 1962, shifting the main administrative focus away from Huye.
Reading Kigali against the global hubs: Dubai (~4,061 km), London (~6,590 km), Singapore (~8,209 km) are the close ones, with Los Angeles (~15,162 km) sitting on the opposite side of the planet — a good gut check when judging logistics windows.
Kigali sits inside Ruanda — the Eastern Africa subregion, capital Kigali, languages English, French, Kinyarwanda, currency RWF (Fr).
The closest mapped neighbors of Kigali are Kamuhanda / Ruyenzi (8 km), Ndera (12 km), Shyorongi (15 km), Mugina (22 km), so commuter, logistics and same-day-trip planning will usually pull from this cluster.
In 2015, A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Kigali, so this page falls back to timezone and regional planning context instead of showing a broken travel panel.
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
On this day
2015: A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
2013: A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people.
2013: National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing all seven people on board.
Coordination pulse
0 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 08:44 PM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 03:44 PM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 12:44 PM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 11:44 PM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 03:44 AM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 04:44 AM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 05:44 AM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 04:44 PM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Kigali está en la zona horaria Africa/Kigali (CAT), con un desfase UTC de +02:00.
Kigali no está actualmente observando el Horario de Verano.
El desfase UTC actual para Kigali es UTC+02:00.
Kigali sits at 1.95°S, 30.06°E in Ruanda, with about 1.1M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Kigali is Dubai, about 4,061 km away as the crow flies.
Kamuhanda / Ruyenzi is the closest indexed city, roughly 8 km from Kigali.