Indexed entity
Bulawayo is the bulawayo-ZW record in Zimbabwe: country slug zimbabwe, city slug bulawayo, ISO ZW, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Harare.
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Live local time
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
12:42:52 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Harare
Quick answer
It is currently 12:42:52 PM (CAT, UTC+02:00) in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
11°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
21°C
11°C
Wed
22°C
10°C
Thu
23°C
10°C
In 69 days
Heroes' Day
Mon, Aug 10, 2026
PublicIn 70 days
Defence Forces Day
Tue, Aug 11, 2026
PublicIn 203 days
Unity Day
Tue, Dec 22, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
ZWG
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Conversion rates aren’t published for this currency by the ECB. The local code is shown for reference.
Today
Sunrise
06:34 AM
Sunset
05:33 PM
Day length
10h 59m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Bulawayo, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:42 AM UTC.
Current local time
12:42:52 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CAT
Africa/Harare · UTC+02:00
Next holiday
Heroes' Day
Monday, August 10, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Bulawayo right now
Nearest airport
HRE
Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport · 361 km
Indexed airports
1
Curated airport references available for Zimbabwe
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:42 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Bulawayo is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+02:00
Zone label
GMT+2
London
11:42 AM / -1h
Dubai
02:42 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
Heroes' Day on Monday, August 10, 2026
Travel cue
HRE Harare, 361 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:34 AM to 05:33 PM, with solar noon around 12:04 PM and total daylight of 10h 59m.
Mapped location
20.15°S, 28.58°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:42 AM / -1h
Good live-call window with Bulawayo right now.
New York
06:42 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:42 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:42 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Bulawayo right now.
Singapore
06:42 PM / +6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Bulawayo.
HRE · Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport
Harare
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Harare for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+02:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+02:00.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Bulawayo right now.
Check local interruptions
Heroes' Day on Monday, August 10, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: HRE Harare, 361 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Harare. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Bulawayo has no near-term DST change in view, but Heroes' Day can still affect office coverage and local response times.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Bulawayo.
Canonical route
/time/zimbabwe/bulawayo/
Catalog identity
bulawayo-ZW · ZW · Africa
Coordinate cell
20.15°S, 28.58°E · lat -20.150 · lon 28.583 · cell -2015:2858
Population record
665,952 residents · country rank 2
Zone snapshot
Africa/Harare · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Francistown, Botswana · 159 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 5,810 km
Closest airport references
HRE Harare 361 km
Zone peer roster
Harare, Zimbabwe · Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe · Mutare, Zimbabwe
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Bulawayo: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Bulawayo is the bulawayo-ZW record in Zimbabwe: country slug zimbabwe, city slug bulawayo, ISO ZW, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Harare.
20.15°S, 28.58°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -21 and longitude band 28; exact decimal pair -20.15000, 28.58333.
Zimbabwe: official name Republic of Zimbabwe; capital Harare; region Africa; subregion Southern Africa; country population 17,073,087; area 390,757 km²; languages Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, Khoisan, Ndau, Northern Ndebele; currencies ZWL Zimbabwean dollar. This is the country layer behind the Bulawayo clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo River, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east. The capital and largest city is Harare, and the second largest is Bulawayo. Source: Wikipedia.
Francistown [francistown-BW, BW, Africa/Gaborone, 159 km]; Chitungwiza [chitungwiza-ZW, ZW, Africa/Harare, 354 km]; Harare [harare-ZW, ZW, Africa/Harare, 366 km]; Mutare [mutare-ZW, ZW, Africa/Harare, 448 km]; Lusaka [lusaka-ZM, ZM, Africa/Lusaka, 528 km]; Maun [maun-BW, BW, Africa/Gaborone, 540 km]; Mogoditshane [mogoditshane-BW, BW, Africa/Gaborone, 571 km]; Gaborone [gaborone-BW, BW, Africa/Gaborone, 571 km]
Bulawayo is part of this indexed country cluster: Harare [harare-ZW, Africa/Harare, pop 1,542,813]; Bulawayo [bulawayo-ZW, Africa/Harare, pop 665,952]; Chitungwiza [chitungwiza-ZW, Africa/Harare, pop 371,246]; Mutare [mutare-ZW, Africa/Harare, pop 224,802].
Dubai 5,810 km; São Paulo 7,680 km; London 8,445 km; Singapore 8,522 km; Sydney 11,475 km; New York 12,490 km; Tokyo 13,161 km; Los Angeles 16,408 km
HRE Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in Harare [ZW, 361 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include HRE Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in Harare [ZW].
Bulawayo renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:42 GMT+2; GMT+2 at UTC+02:00; January UTC+02:00; July UTC+02:00; next holiday Heroes' Day on 2026-08-10.
This evidence pack is what keeps smaller city pages from reading like timezone templates: concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Bulawayo.
Bulawayo is a context-and-reference city; rank #2 of 4 retained Zimbabwe city pages. The route is /time/zimbabwe/bulawayo/ and the city id is bulawayo-ZW.
Bulawayo has 15 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Bulawayo is pinned at 20.15°S, 28.58°E; Francistown (159 km); Dubai (5,810 km).
Africa/Harare resolves to stable UTC+02:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Zimbabwe.
HRE Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport (361 km) · Heroes' Day (Monday, August 10, 2026) · 1 country airport reference · 13 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Bulawayo uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Bulawayo: Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe, and the largest city in the country's Matabeleland region. The city's population is disputed; the 2022 census listed it at 665,940, while the Bulawayo City Council claimed it to be about 1.2 million. Bulawayo covers an area of 546 square kilometres in the western part of the country, along the Matsheumhlope River. Along with the capital Harare, Bulawayo is one of two cities in Zimbabwe that are also provinces.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Bulawayo is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 28.58°, Bulawayo's mean solar noon falls about 6 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Bulawayo sits at 20.15°S, in the southern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Bulawayo sits at 20.15°S, in the southern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Dec 15 (13h 21m)
Shortest day
Jun 13 (10h 55m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
2h 26m
See the full daylight curve for Bulawayo at /sun/bulawayo/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Bulawayo local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Bulawayo |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 15:00 - 23:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 07:00 - 15:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 05:30 - 13:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 03:00 - 11:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 03:00 - 11:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 02:00 - 10:00 |
Public holidays in 2026
13
Reference fields include Bulawayo's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:42:52 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Bulawayo (UTC+02:00, CAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:34 AM to 05:33 PM
Day length 10h 59m · Solar noon 12:04 PM
Next country holiday
Heroes' Day
Monday, August 10, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Bulawayo local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Code with Claude Tokyo 2026
keynoteWednesday, June 10, 2026
8 days to go
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
keynoteSunday, December 6, 2026
187 days to go
Xbox Games Showcase 2026
keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
Population
666K
Coordinates
-20.15, 28.58
Timezone
Africa/Harare
Indexed airports
1
Capital
Harare
Languages
Chibarwe, English
Currency
ZWL ($)
Country area
390,757 km²
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (population rank #2 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Harare (CAT, UTC+02:00); population ~666K.
Coordinates: 20.15°S, 28.58°E. Southern Hemisphere tropics, ~2237 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:34 AM and sets around 05:33 PM in Bulawayo — about 10h 59m of daylight. Zimbabwe stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Francistown (159 km from Bulawayo) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Zimbabwe.
Next national holiday: Heroes' Day, 2026-08-10.
Bulawayo is indexed as a Africa city in the ZW country record, using Africa/Harare as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/zimbabwe/bulawayo/.
Location context: 20.15°S, 28.58°E; population 665,952; nearest indexed city Francistown is about 159 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 5,810 km away.
Country planning context: capital Harare; subregion Southern Africa; languages Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, Khoisan; currency ZWL ($); area 390,757 km²; 1 curated airport references; next holiday Heroes' Day on 2026-08-10.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Bulawayo is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 28.58°, Bulawayo's mean solar noon falls about 6 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Bulawayo sits at 20.15°S, in the southern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Sizeable city with about 666 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Bulawayo: Harare (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), São Paulo (−5h), Johannesburg (same time).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
zimbabwe
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
CAT
IANA Zone
Africa/Harare
UTC Offset
UTC+02:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+02:00
Burundi, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Sudan, Sudan, Rwanda, Malawi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Other cities in this timezone
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 Bulawayo.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Bulawayo: closest hubs Dubai (~5,810 km), São Paulo (~7,680 km), London (~8,445 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~16,408 km).
Bulawayo sits inside Zimbabwe — the Southern Africa subregion, capital Harare, languages Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, currency ZWL ($).
Closest indexed cities to Bulawayo: Francistown (159 km), Chitungwiza (354 km), Harare (366 km), Mutare (448 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Bulawayo: Heroes' Day, Defence Forces Day, Unity Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Zimbabwe.
Closest curated airport references from Bulawayo: HRE Harare (361 km).
Robert Gabriel Mugabe International AirportHRE
Harare · 361 km from Bulawayo
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 13m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
2 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:42 AM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:42 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:42 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:42 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:42 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:42 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:42 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:42 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Bulawayo is in the Africa/Harare timezone (CAT), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Bulawayo does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+02:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Bulawayo is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Bulawayo, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 12:42 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Bulawayo sits at 20.15°S, 28.58°E in Zimbabwe, with about 666K residents (rank #2 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Bulawayo is Dubai, about 5,810 km away as the crow flies.
Francistown is the closest indexed city, roughly 159 km from Bulawayo.
Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport (HRE) is the closest curated airport reference, about 361 km from Bulawayo.
Heroes' Day is the next upcoming holiday in Zimbabwe, on Monday, August 10, 2026.
Bulawayo uses Zimbabwean dollar (ZWL, symbol $) as the local currency of Zimbabwe.
The longest day of 2026 in Bulawayo falls on Dec 15 with about 13h 21m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 13 with 10h 55m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
In Bulawayo local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 15:00-23:00; London 10:00-18:00; Frankfurt 09:00-17:00; Dubai 07:00-15:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.