Baubau, Endonezya Güncel Saati — WITA.

Baubau is a city in Southeast Sulawesi province, Indonesia. The city is located on the southwest coast of Buton island. Baubau attained city status on 21 June 2001 after Law Number 13 of 2001 was passed. It covers an area of 294.98 square kilometres (113.89 sq mi), of which about 30 square kilometres (12 sq mi) is water. It had a population of 136,991 at the 2010 Census and 159,248 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate in mid-2023 was 161,280. The city is the economic center of the Buton Island region and the second-largest city in the province. It was the cultural center of the Butonese people, the former capital of the Sultanate of Buton, the seat of the colonial administration of Eastern Sulawesi, and briefly the capital of the entire Southeast Sulawesi regency until 1955 when the capital status shifted to neighbouring Kendari.

From Baubau the nearest of our reference hubs are Singapore (~2,219 km), Sydney (~4,321 km), Tokyo (~4,909 km), while São Paulo sits about 16,584 km away — useful framing when someone needs a feel for whether a meeting is a regional hop or an intercontinental call.

Baubau sits inside Endonezya — the South-Eastern Asia subregion, capital Jakarta, languages Indonesian, currency IDR (Rp).

Raha (71 km), Katobu (72 km), Kendari (165 km), Sinjai (263 km) are the nearest cities WorldClockTools indexes around Baubau — that's the cluster to use when scheduling spills past the city limits.

Upcoming country holiday signals around Baubau: Labour Day, Ascension Day, Pancasila Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Endonezya.

Closest curated airport references from Baubau: UPG Makassar (340 km), SUB Surabaya (1105 km), SOC Surakarta (1328 km).

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