HarareZimbabwe
Current time in Harare, Zimbabwe
Thursday, 24 September 2026
Central Africa TimeUTC+02:00
⛶ Full-screen clockHarare time at a glance
- Country
- Zimbabwe
- Location
- Capital city of Zimbabwe
- Time zone
Africa/Harare- UTC offset now
UTC+02:00- Current zone label
- GMT+2
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Harare time guide
Does Harare change its clocks?
UTC+02:00.- Year-round offset
- Central Africa Time (CAT), UTC+02:00
- Time-zone identifier
- Africa/Harare
- Harare and London
- 2 hours ahead during GMT; 1 hour ahead during BST
- Harare and New York
- 7 hours ahead during EST; 6 hours ahead during EDT
Urban district and province
Harare Province contains more than the central city
Zimbabwe's 2022 census counted 1,491,740 residents in Harare Urban district. Harare Province also includes other local-authority areas, while metropolitan estimates may extend farther, so the urban-district boundary should remain explicit.
Time-zone identity for Harare
- IANA zone
Africa/Harare- UTC offset now
- UTC+02:00
- Current zone label
- GMT+2
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Harare is currently 2 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Harare
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Wednesday, 29 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Harare
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Africa/Harare, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the previous 5 years.
Next 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the next 5 years.
Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.
Capital city context
About Harare, capital of Zimbabwe
Harare is the capital of Zimbabwe. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Zimbabwe
- Administrative area
- Zimbabwe
- Population
- 1,542,813
- Coordinates
- 17.8277° S, 31.0534° E. The elevation is 1,494 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Harare
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Harare. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- EpworthHarare, Zimbabwe12 km southeast
Africa/HarareSame local time - ChitungwizaHarare, Zimbabwe21 km south
Africa/HarareSame local time - Mount HampdenMashonaland East Province, Zimbabwe15 km northwest
Africa/HarareSame local time - Harare Western SuburbsMashonaland West, Zimbabwe19 km west
Africa/HarareSame local time - RuwaMashonaland East Province, Zimbabwe21 km east
Africa/HarareSame local time - NortonMashonaland West, Zimbabwe38 km west
Africa/HarareSame local time
Sources for Harare time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 4 sources
- GeoNames cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.
- 2022 Population and Housing Census Preliminary ReportZimbabwe National Statistics Agency · 2022 census · AccessedOfficial ward and district population totals for Harare.