Current time in Kigali, Rwanda
10:45:08 AM
Monday, October 26, 2026
Kigali is on Central Africa Time, UTC+2. It doesn't change its clocks: the time zone database has no changes scheduled for the next 12 months.
About 1.1 million people live in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. The nearest airport with scheduled passenger flights is Kigali International Airport (KGL, 9 km away).
- Time zone
- Africa/Kigali
- UTC offset now
- UTC+2
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Sunrise today
- 5:38 AM
- Sunset today
- 5:48 PM
- Daylight
- 12 h 10 min
- Population
- 1,132,686
- Currency
- Franc (RWF)
- Dialing code
- +250
- Languages (country)
- Kinyarwanda, English
- Airports
- KGL 9 km
Cities near Kigali
- Kampala11:45 AM · +1 h377 km away
- Nairobi11:45 AM · +1 h755 km away
- Dar es Salaam11:45 AM · +1 h1,156 km away
- Addis Ababa11:45 AM · +1 h1,554 km away
- Kinshasa9:45 AM · −1 h1,658 km away
- Luanda9:45 AM · −1 h2,013 km away
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