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Live local time
Mpika, Zambie
09:12:45 AMThursday, April 30, 2026 · Africa/Lusaka
Mpika
Town in Zambia
Heure locale actuelle
09:12:45 AM
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Fuseau horaire
CAT
Africa/Lusaka · UTC+02:00
Prochain jour férié
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Chevauchement d'horaires maintenant
3 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Mpika right now
Aéroport le plus proche
LUN
Kenneth Kaunda International Airport · 506 km
Aéroports indexés
1
Curated airport references available for Zambie
Snapshot at render time: 09:12:45 AM on Thursday, April 30, 2026 in Mpika (UTC+02:00, CAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 120
Days Remaining
245
Current weather
18°C, Clear sky
Feels like 16°C · Humidity 77% · Wind 21 km/h
Sunrise and sunset
06:00 AM to 05:42 PM
Day length 11h 42m · Solar noon 11:51 AM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Mpika local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Mother's Day (US) 2026
festival-seculardimanche 10 mai 2026
10 days to go
Gemini 3 Launch (rumored at Google I/O)
release-techmardi 12 mai 2026
12 days to go
48th ASEAN Summit — Cebu
politicalvendredi 15 mai 2026
15 days to go
Gemini 3 Ultra Launch (estimated window)
keynotevendredi 15 mai 2026
15 days to go
WHO Pandemic Agreement — Adoption at 79th WHA
politicallundi 18 mai 2026
18 days to go
Forza Horizon 6
release-gamemardi 19 mai 2026
19 days to go
Population
63.7K
Coordinates
-11.83, 31.45
Timezone
Africa/Lusaka
Aéroports indexés
1
Capital
Lusaka
Languages
English
Currency
ZMW (ZK)
Country area
752,612 km²
Read time for Mpika from the Africa/Lusaka zone (CAT, UTC+02:00); the city carries roughly 63.7K residents and ranks #25 among curated Zambie entries.
The coordinates 11.83°S, 31.45°E put Mpika roughly 1314 km from the equator in the tropics of the Southern Hemisphere, which is why the page expects small seasonal swing in sunrise and sunset.
Today the sun rises around 06:00 AM and sets around 05:42 PM in Mpika — about 11h 42m of daylight. Zambie stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Chinsali (159 km from Mpika) gives this page its nearest commuter and travel cluster, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Zambie.
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 Mpika.
Mpika is a town in the Muchinga Province of Zambia, lying at the junction of the M1 road to Kasama and Mbala and the Tanzam Highway to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in the north-east and Lusaka in the south-west. It also has a railway station on the TAZARA Railway about 5 kilometres (3 mi) west of the town centre. Mpika is situated between the Muchinga Escarpment to the east and vast miombo plains to the west. The town has an estimated population of 40,000 inhabitants (2008), while the district population is 149,063 inhabitants as of the 2022 Zambian census.
Distance-wise, Mpika is closest to Dubai (~4,861 km), London (~7,672 km), Singapore (~8,123 km); Los Angeles is the far end at roughly 16,077 km. That ordering matters more than the timezone label for travel planning.
Mpika sits inside Zambie — the Eastern Africa subregion, capital Lusaka, languages English, currency ZMW (ZK).
Around Mpika, the nearest mapped reference cities are Chinsali (159 km), Kasama (183 km), Lundazi (194 km), Serenje (204 km); treat them as the de-facto regional cluster for CAT planning.
Closest curated airport references from Mpika: LUN Lusaka (506 km).
In 2021, Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.
Kenneth Kaunda International AirportLUN
Lusaka · 506 km from Mpika
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 24m
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
3 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 08:12 AM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 03:12 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 12:12 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 11:12 AM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 03:12 PM | +6h | Good to call now |
| Tokyo | 04:12 PM | +7h | Good to call now |
| Sydney | 05:12 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 04:12 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Mpika est dans le fuseau horaire Africa/Lusaka (CAT), avec un décalage UTC de +02:00.
Mpika n'observe pas actuellement l'heure d'été.
Le décalage UTC actuel pour Mpika est UTC+02:00.
Mpika sits at 11.83°S, 31.45°E in Zambie, with about 63.7K residents (rank #25 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Mpika is Dubai, about 4,861 km away as the crow flies.
Chinsali is the closest indexed city, roughly 159 km from Mpika.
Kenneth Kaunda International Airport (LUN) is the closest curated airport reference, about 506 km from Mpika.
