Current time in Bukoba, Tanzania right now

It is 8:58 am in Bukoba, Tanzania 🇹🇿 right now, on Friday, November 6, 2026. The city keeps Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, which is UTC+3 at UTC+3, so Bukoba is 3 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 5:58 am. The sun rose in Bukoba at 6:31 am and sets at 6:41 pm, which is 12 hours 10 minutes of daylight.

What time is it in Bukoba right now?

The time in Bukoba, Tanzania is 8:58 am, 08:58 on a 24 hour clock, on Friday November 6, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Africa/Dar_es_Salaam rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.

Bukoba sits at 1.33 degrees south and 31.81 degrees east, within eight degrees of the equator and 148 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 45.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 13.2 degrees west of that line. Those 13.2 degrees are worth 52 minutes 45 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:36 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.

Bukoba time zone and UTC offset

The IANA zone for Bukoba, Tanzania is Africa/Dar_es_Salaam. Right now it is running at UTC+3 and the abbreviation in force is UTC+3. Bukoba does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC+3 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving Bukoba ever needs a seasonal footnote.

Daylight hours in Bukoba today

The sun rose in Bukoba at 6:31 am and sets at 6:41 pm, which is 12 hours 10 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Bukoba, is at 12:36 pm, which is 36 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -16.04 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 75.3 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.

The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Bukoba, which works from the same coordinates.

Where Bukoba is on the map

The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.

Time difference between Bukoba and major cities

Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Bukoba.

Best time to call Bukoba

Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.

Other cities in Tanzania

We cover 34 cities in Tanzania. These are the ones nearest to Bukoba, with the time on their clocks right now.

Cities on Africa/Dar_es_Salaam time

34 of our cities keep Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, so every one of them reads 8:58 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Bukoba. Nearest first:

Moon phase over Bukoba tonight

The moon is a waning crescent tonight, 26.6 days into its cycle and about 9% lit. The next full moon falls on November 24, 2026 at 5:53 pm Dar es Salaam time, and the next new moon on November 9, 2026 at 10:01 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Bukoba clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.

When the clocks change in Bukoba

There is no clock change scheduled in Africa/Dar_es_Salaam within the next 400 days, so Bukoba stays at UTC+3 for the whole of that stretch.

That makes Bukoba an easy city to schedule against: a meeting fixed at a given hour here holds its relationship to UTC all year, and only the other end of the call can move.

How far Bukoba is from other cities

Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Bukoba is Masaka, Uganda at 111 km, and the furthest is Hilo, Hawaii at 17,836 km, which is 89% of the way to being exactly opposite.

The antipode of Bukoba

Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Bukoba, Tanzania and you come out at 1.33 degrees north, 148.19 degrees west. That point is in the North Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Hilo, Hawaii, 2,179 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 7:58 pm on Thursday.

The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 1.33 degrees south becomes 1.33 degrees north, and 31.81 degrees east becomes 148.19 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Bukoba is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-9, roughly twelve hours from Bukoba, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.

Sunrise and sunset in Bukoba

Today the sun rises in Bukoba at 6:31 am and sets at 6:41 pm, giving 12 hours 10 minutes of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Bukoba.

Sun and moon in Bukoba today

The sun is up in Bukoba for 12 hours 10 minutes today, from 6:31 am to 6:41 pm. The moon rises in Bukoba at 4:08 am and sets at 4:30 pm. The next phase is the new moon on November 9, 2026. It is 9% lit at the moment, a waning crescent, thinning by about 6.0 percentage points a day.

Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.

Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.

Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.

Prayer times in Bukoba

Seven days from November 6, 2026, computed for Bukoba, Tanzania at 1.33 degrees south, 31.81 degrees east, on the clock of Africa/Dar_es_Salaam. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.

Dhuhr is solar noon at Bukoba, Tanzania, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.

Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.

Qibla direction from Bukoba

From Bukoba, Tanzania the qibla is 18.6 degrees on a true compass, which is north-northeast, or 18.6 degrees east of due north. The Kaaba is 2,676 km away, 1,663 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Bukoba, Tanzania to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.

The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Bukoba, Tanzania before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.

Bukoba time now: common questions

What time is it in Bukoba, Tanzania right now?

8:58 am on Friday November 6, 2026. Bukoba runs on UTC+3, UTC+3.

What time zone is Bukoba in?

Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, currently UTC+3 at UTC+3. 34 of the cities on this site keep that zone.

What is the UTC offset for Bukoba?

UTC+3 at this instant. It is UTC+3 all year round, with no seasonal change.

Does Bukoba observe daylight saving time?

No. Bukoba stays on UTC+3 for the whole year.

How many hours ahead or behind is Bukoba of New York?

Bukoba is 8 hours ahead of New York, where it is 12:58 am right now.

What time does the sun set in Bukoba today?

6:41 pm, after a sunrise at 6:31 am and 12 hours 10 minutes of daylight.

What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Bukoba?

1.33 degrees north, 148.19 degrees west, in the North Pacific Ocean.

When is the best time to call Bukoba from London?

Between 12:00 pm and 6:00 pm in Bukoba, which is 9:00 am to 3:00 pm in London.

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