Indexed entity
Benguela is the benguela-AO record in Angola: country slug angola, city slug benguela, ISO AO, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Luanda.
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Live local time
Benguela, Angola
11:44:32 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Luanda
Quick answer
It is currently 11:44:32 AM (WAT, UTC+01:00) in Benguela, Angola — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
21°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
25°C
22°C
Wed
24°C
22°C
Thu
25°C
22°C
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
AOA
Live ECB rate not available for this currency.
Conversion rates aren’t published for this currency by the ECB. The local code is shown for reference.
Today
Sunrise
06:21 AM
Sunset
05:47 PM
Day length
11h 26m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Benguela, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:44 AM UTC.
Current local time
11:44:32 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
WAT
Africa/Luanda · UTC+01:00
Next holiday
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Benguela right now
Nearest airport
NBJ
Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto International Airport · 392 km
Indexed airports
2
Curated airport references available for Angola
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Benguela, Angola.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 11:44 GMT+1
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Benguela is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+01:00
Zone label
GMT+1
London
11:44 AM / +0h
Dubai
02:44 PM / +3h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
NBJ Luanda (Ícolo e Bengo), 392 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:21 AM to 05:47 PM, with solar noon around 12:04 PM and total daylight of 11h 26m.
Mapped location
12.58°S, 13.40°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:44 AM / +0h
Good live-call window with Benguela right now.
New York
06:44 AM / -5h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:44 AM / -8h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:44 PM / +3h
Good live-call window with Benguela right now.
Singapore
06:44 PM / +7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Benguela.
NBJ · Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto International Airport
Luanda (Ícolo e Bengo)
LAD · Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport
Luanda
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Luanda for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+01:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+01:00.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Benguela right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest curated airport reference: NBJ Luanda (Ícolo e Bengo), 392 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Luanda. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Benguela has no near-term DST change or holiday interruption in view, but future rules can still be revised by local authorities.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Benguela.
Canonical route
/time/angola/benguela/
Catalog identity
benguela-AO · AO · Africa
Coordinate cell
12.58°S, 13.40°E · lat -12.577 · lon 13.403 · cell -1258:1340
Population record
555,124 residents · country rank 4
Zone snapshot
Africa/Luanda · GMT+1 · UTC+01:00
January / July offsets
UTC+01:00 / UTC+01:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Huambo, Angola · 254 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 6,183 km
Closest airport references
NBJ Luanda (Ícolo e Bengo) 392 km · LAD Luanda 414 km
Zone peer roster
Luanda, Angola · Lubango, Angola · Huambo, Angola
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Benguela: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Benguela is the benguela-AO record in Angola: country slug angola, city slug benguela, ISO AO, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Luanda.
12.58°S, 13.40°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -13 and longitude band 13; exact decimal pair -12.57674, 13.40268.
Angola: official name Republic of Angola; capital Luanda; region Africa; subregion Middle Africa; country population 36,170,961; area 1,246,700 km²; languages Portuguese; currencies AOA Angolan kwanza. This is the country layer behind the Benguela clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Angola: Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the western coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country after Brazil in both total area and population and is the seventh-largest country in Africa. It is bordered by Namibia to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Zambia to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Angola has an exclave province, the province of Cabinda, that borders the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The capital and most populous city is Luanda. Source: Wikipedia.
Huambo [huambo-AO, AO, Africa/Luanda, 254 km]; Lubango [lubango-AO, AO, Africa/Luanda, 260 km]; Luanda [luanda-AO, AO, Africa/Luanda, 416 km]; Pointe-Noire [pointe-noire-CG, CG, Africa/Brazzaville, 884 km]; Rundu [rundu-NA, NA, Africa/Windhoek, 905 km]; Nkayi [nkayi-CG, CG, Africa/Brazzaville, 933 km]; Dolisie [dolisie-CG, CG, Africa/Brazzaville, 935 km]; Masina [masina-CD, CD, Africa/Kinshasa, 937 km]
Benguela is part of this indexed country cluster: Luanda [luanda-AO, Africa/Luanda, pop 2,776,168]; Lubango [lubango-AO, Africa/Luanda, pop 600,751]; Huambo [huambo-AO, Africa/Luanda, pop 595,304]; Benguela [benguela-AO, Africa/Luanda, pop 555,124].
Dubai 6,183 km; São Paulo 6,420 km; London 7,245 km; Singapore 10,086 km; New York 10,701 km; Sydney 13,190 km; Tokyo 14,074 km; Los Angeles 14,594 km
NBJ Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto International Airport in Luanda (Ícolo e Bengo) [AO, 392 km]; LAD Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport in Luanda [AO, 414 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include LAD Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport in Luanda [AO]; NBJ Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto International Airport in Luanda (Ícolo e Bengo) [AO].
Benguela renders Jun 2, 2026 · 11:44 GMT+1; GMT+1 at UTC+01:00; January UTC+01:00; July UTC+01:00; next holiday not currently surfaced.
This evidence pack is what keeps smaller city pages from reading like timezone templates: concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Benguela.
Benguela is a context-and-reference city; rank #4 of 4 retained Angola city pages. The route is /time/angola/benguela/ and the city id is benguela-AO.
Benguela has 14 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Benguela is pinned at 12.58°S, 13.40°E; Huambo (254 km); Dubai (6,183 km).
Africa/Luanda resolves to stable UTC+01:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Angola.
NBJ Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto International Airport (392 km) · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 2 country airport references · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Benguela uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Benguela: Benguela is a city in western Angola, capital of Benguela Province. Benguela is one of Angola's most populous cities with a population of 555,124 in the city and 561,775 in the municipality, at the 2014 census.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+01:00) is constant year-round.
Benguela is listed in the dataset snapshot as 1 hour ahead of UTC (offset +01:00). On the same clock as London, 8 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 13.40°, Benguela's mean solar noon falls about 6 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Benguela sits at 12.58°S, in the southern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Benguela sits at 12.58°S, in the southern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Dec 15 (12h 52m)
Shortest day
Jun 14 (11h 23m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
1h 29m
See the full daylight curve for Benguela at /sun/benguela/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Benguela local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Benguela |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 14:00 - 22:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 06:00 - 14:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 04:30 - 12:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 02:00 - 10:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 02:00 - 10:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 01:00 - 09:00 |
Reference fields include Benguela's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 11:44:32 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Benguela (UTC+01:00, WAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:21 AM to 05:47 PM
Day length 11h 26m · Solar noon 12:04 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Benguela local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
keynoteSunday, December 6, 2026
187 days to go
Xbox Games Showcase 2026
keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
Code with Claude Tokyo 2026
keynoteWednesday, June 10, 2026
8 days to go
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Population
555.1K
Coordinates
-12.58, 13.40
Timezone
Africa/Luanda
Indexed airports
2
Capital
Luanda
Languages
Portuguese
Currency
AOA (Kz)
Country area
1,246,700 km²
Benguela, Angola (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Luanda (WAT, UTC+01:00); population ~555.1K.
Coordinates: 12.58°S, 13.40°E. Southern Hemisphere tropics, ~1396 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:21 AM and sets around 05:47 PM in Benguela — about 11h 26m of daylight. Angola stays on standard time here, so UTC+01:00 is stable through the year.
Huambo (254 km from Benguela) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 2 curated airport pages indexed for Angola.
Benguela is indexed as a Africa city in the AO country record, using Africa/Luanda as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/angola/benguela/.
Location context: 12.58°S, 13.40°E; population 555,124; nearest indexed city Huambo is about 254 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 6,183 km away.
Country planning context: capital Luanda; subregion Middle Africa; languages Portuguese; currency AOA (Kz); area 1,246,700 km²; 2 curated airport references; no upcoming holiday signal currently in view.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+01:00) is constant year-round.
Benguela is listed in the dataset snapshot as 1 hour ahead of UTC (offset +01:00). On the same clock as London, 8 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 13.40°, Benguela's mean solar noon falls about 6 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Benguela sits at 12.58°S, in the southern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Sizeable city with about 555 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Benguela: Luanda (same time), Sydney (+9h), Tokyo (+8h), Lima (−6h), Mumbai (+4.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
angola
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
WAT
IANA Zone
Africa/Luanda
UTC Offset
UTC+01:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
London
+0h
New York
-5h
Los Angeles
-8h
Dubai
+3h
Singapore
+7h
Tokyo
+8h
Sydney
+9h
São Paulo
-4h
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 Benguela.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Benguela: closest hubs Dubai (~6,183 km), São Paulo (~6,420 km), London (~7,245 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~14,594 km).
Benguela sits inside Angola — the Middle Africa subregion, capital Luanda, languages Portuguese, currency AOA (Kz).
Closest indexed cities to Benguela: Huambo (254 km), Lubango (260 km), Luanda (416 km), Pointe-Noire (884 km).
Closest curated airport references from Benguela: NBJ Luanda (Ícolo e Bengo) (392 km), LAD Luanda (414 km).
Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto International AirportNBJ
Luanda (Ícolo e Bengo) · 392 km from Benguela
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 15m
Quatro de Fevereiro International AirportLAD
Luanda · 414 km from Benguela
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 17m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
2 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:44 AM | +0h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:44 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:44 AM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:44 PM | +3h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:44 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:44 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:44 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:44 AM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
Huambo
Angola
Approx. 254 km away
Lubango
Angola
Approx. 260 km away
Luanda
Angola
Approx. 416 km away
Pointe-Noire
Congo - Brazzaville
Approx. 884 km away
Rundu
Namibia
Approx. 905 km away
Nkayi
Congo - Brazzaville
Approx. 933 km away
Dolisie
Congo - Brazzaville
Approx. 935 km away
Masina
Congo - Kinshasa
Approx. 937 km away
Benguela is in the Africa/Luanda timezone (WAT), with a UTC offset of +01:00.
Benguela does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+01:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Benguela is UTC+01:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Benguela, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 11:44 GMT+1. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Benguela sits at 12.58°S, 13.40°E in Angola, with about 555.1K residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Benguela is Dubai, about 6,183 km away as the crow flies.
Huambo is the closest indexed city, roughly 254 km from Benguela.
Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto International Airport (NBJ) is the closest curated airport reference, about 392 km from Benguela.
Benguela uses Angolan kwanza (AOA, symbol Kz) as the local currency of Angola.
The longest day of 2026 in Benguela falls on Dec 15 with about 12h 52m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 14 with 11h 23m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
In Benguela local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 14:00-22:00; London 09:00-17:00; Frankfurt 08:00-16:00; Dubai 06:00-14:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.