Indexed entity
Gaborone is the gaborone-BW record in Botswana: country slug botswana, city slug gaborone, ISO BW, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Gaborone.
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Live local time
Gaborone, Botswana
12:01:35 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Gaborone
Quick answer
It is currently 12:01:35 PM (CAT, UTC+02:00) in Gaborone, Botswana — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
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Sir Seretse Khama Day
Wed, Jul 1, 2026
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Mon, Jul 20, 2026
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Code
BWP
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Today
Sunrise
06:53 AM
Sunset
05:35 PM
Day length
10h 42m
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 Gaborone, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:01 AM UTC.
Current local time
12:01:35 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CAT
Africa/Gaborone · UTC+02:00
Next holiday
Sir Seretse Khama Day
Wednesday, July 1, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Gaborone right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Gaborone
Indexed airports
0
Curated airport references available for Botswana
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Gaborone, Botswana.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:01 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Gaborone is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+02:00
Zone label
GMT+2
London
11:01 AM / -1h
Dubai
02:01 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
Sir Seretse Khama Day on Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Travel cue
Mogoditshane, 5 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:53 AM to 05:35 PM, with solar noon around 12:14 PM and total daylight of 10h 42m.
Mapped location
24.65°S, 25.91°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:01 AM / -1h
Good live-call window with Gaborone right now.
New York
06:01 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:01 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:01 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Gaborone right now.
Singapore
06:01 PM / +6h
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 Gaborone.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Gaborone for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+02:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+02:00.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Gaborone right now.
Check local interruptions
Sir Seretse Khama Day on Wednesday, July 1, 2026. Nearest mapped context: Mogoditshane, 5 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Gaborone. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Gaborone has no near-term DST change in view, but Sir Seretse Khama Day can still affect office coverage and local response times.
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 Gaborone.
Canonical route
/time/botswana/gaborone/
Catalog identity
gaborone-BW · BW · Africa
Coordinate cell
24.65°S, 25.91°E · lat -24.655 · lon 25.909 · cell -2465:2591
Population record
246,325 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Africa/Gaborone · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Mogoditshane, Botswana · 5 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 6,381 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Gaborone
Zone peer roster
Francistown, Botswana · Mogoditshane, Botswana · Maun, Botswana
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Gaborone: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Gaborone is the gaborone-BW record in Botswana: country slug botswana, city slug gaborone, ISO BW, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Gaborone.
24.65°S, 25.91°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -25 and longitude band 25; exact decimal pair -24.65451, 25.90859.
Botswana: official name Republic of Botswana; capital Gaborone; region Africa; subregion Southern Africa; country population 2,359,609; area 582,000 km²; languages English, Tswana; currencies BWP Botswana pula. This is the country layer behind the Gaborone clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Botswana: Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70% of its territory being a part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, Zambia to the north, and Zimbabwe to the northeast. With a population of slightly over 2.4 million people and a comparable land area to France, Botswana is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world. While it is not enshrined by statutory law, Botswana is de facto the nation state of the Batswana people, who constitute nearly 80% of the population while legally undistinguished Kalanga people, who account for another 11%, are the single largest ethnic minority. Source: Wikipedia.
Mogoditshane [mogoditshane-BW, BW, Africa/Gaborone, 5 km]; Pretoria [pretoria-ZA, ZA, Africa/Johannesburg, 259 km]; Johannesburg [johannesburg-ZA, ZA, Africa/Johannesburg, 275 km]; Francistown [francistown-BW, BW, Africa/Gaborone, 421 km]; Maputsoe [maputsoe-LS, LS, Africa/Maseru, 510 km]; Maseru [maseru-LS, LS, Africa/Maseru, 541 km]; Mbabane [mbabane-SZ, SZ, Africa/Mbabane, 556 km]; Lobamba [lobamba-SZ, SZ, Africa/Mbabane, 568 km]
Gaborone is part of this indexed country cluster: Gaborone [gaborone-BW, Africa/Gaborone, pop 246,325]; Francistown [francistown-BW, Africa/Gaborone, pop 103,417]; Mogoditshane [mogoditshane-BW, Africa/Gaborone, pop 88,004]; Maun [maun-BW, Africa/Gaborone, pop 85,350].
Dubai 6,381 km; São Paulo 7,270 km; London 8,843 km; Singapore 8,852 km; Sydney 11,314 km; New York 12,565 km; Tokyo 13,646 km; Los Angeles 16,408 km
Gaborone has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Botswana.
Gaborone renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:01 GMT+2; GMT+2 at UTC+02:00; January UTC+02:00; July UTC+02:00; next holiday Sir Seretse Khama Day on 2026-07-01.
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 Gaborone.
Gaborone is a context-and-reference city; rank #1 of 4 retained Botswana city pages. The route is /time/botswana/gaborone/ and the city id is gaborone-BW.
Gaborone has 13 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.
Gaborone is pinned at 24.65°S, 25.91°E; Mogoditshane (5 km); Dubai (6,381 km).
Africa/Gaborone resolves to stable UTC+02:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Botswana.
Gaborone has no direct nearby-airport handoff · Sir Seretse Khama Day (Wednesday, July 1, 2026) · 0 country airport references · 11 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Gaborone 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.
Gaborone: Gaborone is the capital and largest city of Botswana. It was formerly spelled as Gaberones during the colonial era, a name still occasionally used in older English texts and maps. With a population of 246,325 based on the 2022 census, about 10% of the total population of Botswana. Its metropolitan area is home to 534,842 inhabitants at the 2022 census.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Gaborone is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 25.91°, Gaborone's mean solar noon falls about 16 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.
Gaborone sits at 24.65°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 28 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 32 minutes on the June solstice.
Gaborone sits at 24.65°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 28 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 32 minutes on the June solstice.
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 17 (13h 40m)
Shortest day
Jun 18 (10h 36m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
3h 4m
See the full daylight curve for Gaborone at /sun/gaborone/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Gaborone local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Gaborone |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 15:00 - 23:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 07:00 - 15:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 05:30 - 13:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 03:00 - 11:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 03:00 - 11:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 02:00 - 10:00 |
Public holidays in 2026
11
Capital status
National capital of Botswana
Reference fields include Gaborone's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:01:35 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Gaborone (UTC+02:00, CAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:53 AM to 05:35 PM
Day length 10h 42m · Solar noon 12:14 PM
Next country holiday
Sir Seretse Khama Day
Wednesday, July 1, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Gaborone local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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34 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
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161 days to go
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187 days to go
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5 days to go
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8 days to go
Population
246.3K
Coordinates
-24.65, 25.91
Timezone
Africa/Gaborone
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Gaborone
Languages
English, Tswana
Currency
BWP (P)
Country area
582,000 km²
Gaborone, Botswana (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Gaborone (CAT, UTC+02:00); population ~246.3K.
Coordinates: 24.65°S, 25.91°E. Southern Hemisphere subtropics, ~2737 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:53 AM and sets around 05:35 PM in Gaborone — about 10h 42m of daylight. Botswana stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Mogoditshane (5 km from Gaborone) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Botswana.
Next national holiday: Sir Seretse Khama Day, 2026-07-01.
Gaborone is indexed as a Africa city in the BW country record, using Africa/Gaborone as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/botswana/gaborone/.
Location context: 24.65°S, 25.91°E; population 246,325; nearest indexed city Mogoditshane is about 5 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 6,381 km away.
Country planning context: capital Gaborone; subregion Southern Africa; languages English, Tswana; currency BWP (P); area 582,000 km²; 0 curated airport references; next holiday Sir Seretse Khama Day on 2026-07-01.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Gaborone is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 25.91°, Gaborone's mean solar noon falls about 16 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.
Gaborone sits at 24.65°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 28 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 32 minutes on the June solstice.
Mid-sized city with around 246 thousand residents — busy enough to keep regular international business hours, small enough to retain a regional character. (Gaborone city-proper figure.)
Related clock anchors for Gaborone: Francistown (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), São Paulo (−5h), Johannesburg (same time).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
botswana
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
CAT
IANA Zone
Africa/Gaborone
UTC Offset
UTC+02:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+02:00
Burundi, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Sudan, Sudan, Rwanda, Malawi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Other cities in this timezone
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 Gaborone.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Gaborone: closest hubs Dubai (~6,381 km), São Paulo (~7,270 km), London (~8,843 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~16,408 km).
Gaborone sits inside Botswana — the Southern Africa subregion, capital Gaborone, languages English, Tswana, currency BWP (P).
Closest indexed cities to Gaborone: Mogoditshane (5 km), Pretoria (259 km), Johannesburg (275 km), Francistown (421 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Gaborone: Sir Seretse Khama Day, Presidents' Day, Independence Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Botswana.
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Gaborone, so this page falls back to timezone and regional planning context instead of showing a broken travel panel.
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 | 11:01 AM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:01 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:01 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:01 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:01 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:01 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:01 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:01 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Gaborone is in the Africa/Gaborone timezone (CAT), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Gaborone does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+02:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Gaborone is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Gaborone, 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 · 12:01 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Gaborone sits at 24.65°S, 25.91°E in Botswana, with about 246.3K residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Gaborone is Dubai, about 6,381 km away as the crow flies.
Mogoditshane is the closest indexed city, roughly 5 km from Gaborone.
Sir Seretse Khama Day is the next upcoming holiday in Botswana, on Wednesday, July 1, 2026.
Gaborone uses Botswana pula (BWP, symbol P) as the local currency of Botswana.
The longest day of 2026 in Gaborone falls on Dec 17 with about 13h 40m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 18 with 10h 36m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
In Gaborone local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 15:00-23:00; London 10:00-18:00; Frankfurt 09:00-17:00; Dubai 07:00-15:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.