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Live local time
Mbala, Sambia
05:21:56 AMThursday, April 30, 2026 · Africa/Lusaka
Aktuelle Ortszeit
05:21:56 AM
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Zeitzone
CAT
Africa/Lusaka · UTC+02:00
Nächster Feiertag
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Geschäftsüberschneidung jetzt
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Mbala right now
Nächster Flughafen
LUN
Kenneth Kaunda International Airport · 788 km
Indexierte Flughäfen
1
Curated airport references available for Sambia
Snapshot at render time: 05:21:56 AM on Thursday, April 30, 2026 in Mbala (UTC+02:00, CAT).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 120
Days Remaining
245
Current weather
15°C, Overcast
Feels like 13°C · Humidity 96% · Wind 24 km/h
Sunrise and sunset
05:57 AM to 05:45 PM
Day length 11h 48m · Solar noon 11:51 AM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Mbala local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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politicalMontag, 15. Juni 2026
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German Federal Constitutional Court — Inheritance Tax Ruling
judicialMontag, 15. Juni 2026
46 days to go
Population
42.4K
Coordinates
-8.84, 31.37
Timezone
Africa/Lusaka
Indexierte Flughäfen
1
Capital
Lusaka
Languages
English
Currency
ZMW (ZK)
Country area
752,612 km²
For Sambia, Mbala (rank #36 by population in this dataset) reads CAT, UTC+02:00 on the IANA zone Africa/Lusaka, and the city's roughly 42.4K residents make it a practical scheduling anchor.
The coordinates 8.84°S, 31.37°E put Mbala roughly 981 km from the equator in the deep tropics of the Southern Hemisphere, which is why the page expects year-round daylight that barely shifts between seasons.
Today the sun rises around 05:57 AM and sets around 05:45 PM in Mbala — about 11h 48m of daylight. Sambia stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Mpulungu (29 km from Mbala) gives this page its nearest commuter and travel cluster, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Sambia.
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Timezone
CAT
IANA Zone
Africa/Lusaka
UTC Offset
UTC+02:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 120
Days Remaining
245
Quarter
Q2
London
-1h
New York
-6h
Los Angeles
-9h
Dubai
+2h
Singapore
+6h
Tokyo
+7h
Sydney
+8h
São Paulo
-5h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Mbala.
Mbala is Zambia's most northerly large town and seat of Mbala District in Northern Province, occupying a strategic location close to the border with Tanzania and controlling the southern approaches to Lake Tanganyika, 40 km by road to the north-west, where the port of Mpulungu is located. It had a population of about 20,000 in 2006. Under the name Abercorn, Mbala was a key outpost in British colonial control of this part of south-central Africa.
Distance-wise, Mbala is closest to Dubai (~4,586 km), London (~7,357 km), Singapore (~8,105 km); Los Angeles is the far end at roughly 15,834 km. That ordering matters more than the timezone label for travel planning.
Mbala sits inside Sambia — the Eastern Africa subregion, capital Lusaka, languages English, currency ZMW (ZK).
Around Mbala, the nearest mapped reference cities are Mpulungu (29 km), Matai (62 km), Laela (81 km), Sumbawanga (101 km); treat them as the de-facto regional cluster for CAT planning.
Closest curated airport references from Mbala: LUN Lusaka (788 km).
In 2021, Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.
Kenneth Kaunda International AirportLUN
Lusaka · 788 km from Mbala
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 46m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
On this day
2021: Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.
2014: A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills three people and injures 79 others.
2013: Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.
Coordination pulse
0 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 04:21 AM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 11:21 PM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 08:21 PM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 07:21 AM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 11:21 AM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 12:21 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 01:21 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 12:21 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Mbala liegt in der Zeitzone Africa/Lusaka (CAT), mit einem UTC-Versatz von +02:00.
Mbala beachtet derzeit nicht die Sommerzeit.
Der aktuelle UTC-Versatz für Mbala ist UTC+02:00.
Mbala sits at 8.84°S, 31.37°E in Sambia, with about 42.4K residents (rank #36 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Mbala is Dubai, about 4,586 km away as the crow flies.
Mpulungu is the closest indexed city, roughly 29 km from Mbala.
Kenneth Kaunda International Airport (LUN) is the closest curated airport reference, about 788 km from Mbala.
