🇷🇼 Time in Rwanda

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Friday, 2 October 2026

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Capital City: Kigali

Largest Cities:

ISO Alpha-2: RW

ISO Alpha-3: RWA

IANA Time Zone: Africa/Kigali (UTC+02:00)

Time Zones: CAT

Provinces in Rwanda

Eastern Province Kigali Northern Province Southern Province Western Province

Time Now in Major Cities in Rwanda

CityCurrent Time
Butare Fri 21:17:02
Byumba Fri 21:17:02
Gisenyi Fri 21:17:02
Gitarama Fri 21:17:02
Kigali Fri 21:17:02
Musanze Fri 21:17:02

Time Now in All IANA Timezones for Rwanda

TimezoneCurrent Time
Africa/Kigali Fri 21:17:02
Africa/Maputo Fri 21:17:02

Sunrise and Sunset in Rwanda (6 Locations)

City ↑ Sunrise ↓ Sunset
Butare
↑ 5:46 AM
↓ 5:54 PM
Byumba
↑ 5:45 AM
↓ 5:52 PM
Gisenyi
↑ 5:48 AM
↓ 5:55 PM
Gitarama
↑ 5:46 AM
↓ 5:53 PM
Kigali
↑ 5:45 AM
↓ 5:52 PM
Musanze
↑ 5:47 AM
↓ 5:54 PM

Current Weather in Rwanda (6 Locations)

City Condition Temp.

Information about Rwanda

Population 12,301,939
Area 26,338 km²
ISO Numeric Code 646
FIPS Code RW
Top Level Domain .rw
Currency Franc (RWF)
Phone Prefix +250
Country Code +250
Languages EN-RW (en-RW), FR-RW (fr-RW), RW (rw), SW (sw)
Neighbouring Countries 🇧🇮 Burundi, 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of Congo, 🇹🇿 Tanzania, 🇺🇬 Uganda

Upcoming Public Holidays in Rwanda

This year, Rwanda observes 19 public holidays, with 21 scheduled for 2027. The next holiday is Christmas Day on 25 Dec. The most recently passed holiday was Assumption Day (observed). Explore the full calendar of Public Holidays in Rwanda to plan your schedule.

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FAQ — Rwanda

Common questions about this page — answers customized for the data shown above.

The clocks at the top of this page show the current local time in Rwanda, updated live. Rwanda uses Africa/Kigali (CAT) — UTC+02:00.

Rwanda spans 2 time zones. The full list of time zones and the current local time in each is shown above on this page. Countries split into multiple time zones for geographic, political, or historical reasons — wider east-west spans usually mean more zones.

The capital of Rwanda is Kigali. Click through for the current local time in Kigali, plus sunrise, sunset and weather details for the capital.

The most populous cities in Rwanda include Kigali, Gisenyi, Butare, Gitarama and Musanze. Each city page shows current local time, sunrise/sunset, and weather.

Rwanda observes 19 public holidays this year. The full list — fixed and movable, religious and secular, national and regional — is on the Rwanda public holidays page.

Rwanda's ISO 3166-1 country codes are: alpha-2 code RW and alpha-3 code RWA. These codes are used in address fields, web domains (ccTLD), phone country lookups, and any international data interchange referring to this country. The Rwanda calendar also uses these as identifiers.

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