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Blantyre, Malaui
02:53:38 AMThursday, April 30, 2026 · Africa/Blantyre
Blantyre
Place in Southern Region, Malawi
Hora local actual
02:53:38 AM
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Zona horaria
CAT
Africa/Blantyre · UTC+02:00
Próximo festivo
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Solapamiento laboral ahora
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Blantyre right now
Aeropuerto más cercano
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Blantyre
Aeropuertos indexados
0
Curated airport references available for Malaui
Snapshot at render time: 02:53:38 AM on Thursday, April 30, 2026 in Blantyre (UTC+02:00, CAT).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 120
Days Remaining
245
Current weather
17°C, Clear sky
Feels like 18°C · Humidity 85% · Wind 7 km/h
Sunrise and sunset
05:50 AM to 05:23 PM
Day length 11h 33m · Solar noon 11:37 AM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Blantyre local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
902.6K
Coordinates
-15.78, 35.01
Timezone
Africa/Blantyre
Aeropuertos indexados
0
Capital
Lilongwe
Languages
English, Chewa
Currency
MWK (MK)
Country area
118,484 km²
For Malaui, Blantyre (rank #2 by population in this dataset) reads CAT, UTC+02:00 on the IANA zone Africa/Blantyre, and the city's roughly 902.6K residents make it a practical scheduling anchor.
Blantyre sits at 15.78°S, 35.01°E; that's the tropics (Southern Hemisphere, ~1752 km from the equator) and the daylight pattern reflects small seasonal swing in sunrise and sunset.
Today the sun rises around 05:50 AM and sets around 05:23 PM in Blantyre — about 11h 33m of daylight. Malaui stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Zomba (55 km from Blantyre) gives this page its nearest commuter and travel cluster, with no airport pages currently indexed for Malaui.
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Timezone
CAT
IANA Zone
Africa/Blantyre
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 Blantyre.
Blantyre is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce, and its second largest city, with a population of 800,264 as of 2018. It is sometimes referred to as the commercial and industrial capital of Malawi as opposed to the political capital, Lilongwe. It is the capital of the country's Southern Region as well as the Blantyre District.
Reading Blantyre against the global hubs: Dubai (~5,059 km), Singapore (~7,789 km), London (~8,220 km) are the close ones, with Los Angeles (~16,657 km) sitting on the opposite side of the planet — a good gut check when judging logistics windows.
Blantyre sits inside Malaui — the Eastern Africa subregion, capital Lilongwe, languages English, Chewa, currency MWK (MK).
The closest mapped neighbors of Blantyre are Zomba (55 km), Mwanza (56 km), Mulanje (59 km), Liwonde (83 km), so commuter, logistics and same-day-trip planning will usually pull from this cluster.
In 2021, Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Blantyre, so this page falls back to timezone and regional planning context instead of showing a broken travel panel.
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 | 01:53 AM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 08:53 PM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 05:53 PM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 04:53 AM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 08:53 AM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 09:53 AM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 10:53 AM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 09:53 PM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Blantyre está en la zona horaria Africa/Blantyre (CAT), con un desfase UTC de +02:00.
Blantyre no está actualmente observando el Horario de Verano.
El desfase UTC actual para Blantyre es UTC+02:00.
Blantyre sits at 15.78°S, 35.01°E in Malaui, with about 902.6K residents (rank #2 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Blantyre is Dubai, about 5,059 km away as the crow flies.
Zomba is the closest indexed city, roughly 55 km from Blantyre.
