Indexed entity
Bamenda is the bamenda-CM record in Cameroon: country slug cameroon, city slug bamenda, ISO CM, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Douala.
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Live local time
Bamenda, Cameroon
11:42:53 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Douala
Quick answer
It is currently 11:42:53 AM (WAT, UTC+01:00) in Bamenda, Cameroon — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
18°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
27°C
18°C
65% rain
Wed
26°C
19°C
92% rain
Thu
25°C
18°C
90% rain
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Central African CFA Franc
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
06:04 AM
Sunset
06:30 PM
Day length
12h 27m
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 Bamenda, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:42 AM UTC.
Current local time
11:42:53 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
WAT
Africa/Douala · 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 Bamenda right now
Nearest airport
DLA
Douala International Airport · 222 km
Indexed airports
2
Curated airport references available for Cameroon
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Bamenda, Cameroon.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 11:42 GMT+1
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Bamenda 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
11:42 AM / +0h
Dubai
02:42 PM / +3h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
DLA Douala, 222 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:04 AM to 06:30 PM, with solar noon around 12:17 PM and total daylight of 12h 26m.
Mapped location
5.96°N, 10.15°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:42 AM / +0h
Good live-call window with Bamenda right now.
New York
06:42 AM / -5h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:42 AM / -8h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:42 PM / +3h
Good live-call window with Bamenda right now.
Singapore
06:42 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 Bamenda.
DLA · Douala International Airport
Douala
NSI · Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport
Yaoundé
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Douala 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 Bamenda right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest curated airport reference: DLA Douala, 222 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Douala. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Bamenda 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 Bamenda.
Canonical route
/time/cameroon/bamenda/
Catalog identity
bamenda-CM · CM · Africa
Coordinate cell
5.96°N, 10.15°E · lat 5.960 · lon 10.146 · cell 596:1015
Population record
420,445 residents · country rank 3
Zone snapshot
Africa/Douala · GMT+1 · UTC+01:00
January / July offsets
UTC+01:00 / UTC+01:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Bafoussam, Cameroon · 61 km
Nearest world hub
London · 5,153 km
Closest airport references
DLA Douala 222 km · NSI Yaoundé 294 km
Zone peer roster
Douala, Cameroon · Yaoundé, Cameroon · Bafoussam, Cameroon
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Bamenda: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Bamenda is the bamenda-CM record in Cameroon: country slug cameroon, city slug bamenda, ISO CM, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Douala.
5.96°N, 10.15°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 5 and longitude band 10; exact decimal pair 5.95970, 10.14597.
Cameroon: official name Republic of Cameroon; capital Yaoundé; region Africa; subregion Middle Africa; country population 29,442,327; area 475,442 km²; languages English, French; currencies XAF Central African CFA franc. This is the country layer behind the Bamenda clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Cameroon: Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Its coastline lies on the Bight of Biafra, part of the Gulf of Guinea, and the Atlantic Ocean. Due to its strategic position at the crossroads between West Africa and Central Africa, it has been categorized as being in both geostrategic locations. Cameroon's population of nearly 31 million people speak 250 native languages, in addition to the national tongues of English and French. The capital city of the country is Yaoundé. Source: Wikipedia.
Bafoussam [bafoussam-CM, CM, Africa/Douala, 61 km]; Douala [douala-CM, CM, Africa/Douala, 218 km]; Yaoundé [yaounde-CM, CM, Africa/Douala, 278 km]; Malabo [malabo-GQ, GQ, Africa/Malabo, 288 km]; Ebebiyin [ebebiyin-GQ, GQ, Africa/Malabo, 443 km]; Abuja [abuja-NG, NG, Africa/Lagos, 452 km]; Bata [bata-GQ, GQ, Africa/Malabo, 457 km]; Libreville [libreville-GA, GA, Africa/Libreville, 624 km]
Bamenda is part of this indexed country cluster: Douala [douala-CM, Africa/Douala, pop 1,338,082]; Yaoundé [yaounde-CM, Africa/Douala, pop 1,299,369]; Bamenda [bamenda-CM, Africa/Douala, pop 420,445]; Bafoussam [bafoussam-CM, Africa/Douala, pop 373,268].
London 5,153 km; Dubai 5,251 km; São Paulo 6,976 km; New York 9,083 km; Singapore 10,398 km; Tokyo 13,006 km; Los Angeles 13,007 km; Sydney 14,950 km
DLA Douala International Airport in Douala [CM, 222 km]; NSI Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport in Yaoundé [CM, 294 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include DLA Douala International Airport in Douala [CM]; NSI Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport in Yaoundé [CM].
Bamenda renders Jun 2, 2026 · 11:42 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 Bamenda.
Bamenda is a context-and-reference city; rank #3 of 4 retained Cameroon city pages. The route is /time/cameroon/bamenda/ and the city id is bamenda-CM.
Bamenda 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.
Bamenda is pinned at 5.96°N, 10.15°E; Bafoussam (61 km); London (5,153 km).
Africa/Douala resolves to stable UTC+01:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Cameroon.
DLA Douala International Airport (222 km) · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 2 country airport references · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Bamenda 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.
Bamenda: Bamenda, also known as Abakwa and Mankon Town, is a city in northwestern Cameroon and capital of the Northwest Region. The city has a population of about six hundred thousand people and is located 366 km (227 mi) north-west of the Cameroonian capital, Yaoundé. Bamenda is known for its cool climate and scenic hilly location.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+01:00) is constant year-round.
Bamenda 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 10.15°, Bamenda's mean solar noon falls about 19 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.
Bamenda sits at 5.96°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Bamenda sits at 5.96°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
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
Jun 9 (12h 28m)
Shortest day
Jan 1 (11h 47m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 41m
See the full daylight curve for Bamenda at /sun/bamenda/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Bamenda local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Bamenda |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Bamenda's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 11:42:53 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Bamenda (UTC+01:00, WAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:04 AM to 06:30 PM
Day length 12h 26m · Solar noon 12:17 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Bamenda local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Code with Claude Tokyo 2026
keynoteWednesday, June 10, 2026
8 days to go
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
keynoteSunday, December 6, 2026
187 days to go
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keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
Population
420.4K
Coordinates
5.96, 10.15
Timezone
Africa/Douala
Indexed airports
2
Capital
Yaoundé
Languages
English, French
Currency
XAF (Fr)
Country area
475,442 km²
Bamenda, Cameroon (population rank #3 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Douala (WAT, UTC+01:00); population ~420.4K.
Coordinates: 5.96°N, 10.15°E. Northern Hemisphere deep tropics, ~662 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:04 AM and sets around 06:30 PM in Bamenda — about 12h 26m of daylight. Cameroon stays on standard time here, so UTC+01:00 is stable through the year.
Bafoussam (61 km from Bamenda) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 2 curated airport pages indexed for Cameroon.
Bamenda is indexed as a Africa city in the CM country record, using Africa/Douala as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/cameroon/bamenda/.
Location context: 5.96°N, 10.15°E; population 420,445; nearest indexed city Bafoussam is about 61 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 5,153 km away.
Country planning context: capital Yaoundé; subregion Middle Africa; languages English, French; currency XAF (Fr); area 475,442 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.
Bamenda 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 10.15°, Bamenda's mean solar noon falls about 19 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.
Bamenda sits at 5.96°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Mid-sized city with around 420 thousand residents — busy enough to keep regular international business hours, small enough to retain a regional character. (Bamenda city-proper figure.)
Related clock anchors for Bamenda: Douala (same time), Sydney (+9h), Tokyo (+8h), Singapore (+7h), Mumbai (+4.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
cameroon
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
WAT
IANA Zone
Africa/Douala
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 Bamenda.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Bamenda: closest hubs London (~5,153 km), Dubai (~5,251 km), São Paulo (~6,976 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~14,950 km).
Bamenda sits inside Cameroon — the Middle Africa subregion, capital Yaoundé, languages English, French, currency XAF (Fr).
Closest indexed cities to Bamenda: Bafoussam (61 km), Douala (218 km), Yaoundé (278 km), Malabo (288 km).
Closest curated airport references from Bamenda: DLA Douala (222 km), NSI Yaoundé (294 km).
Douala International AirportDLA
Douala · 222 km from Bamenda
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 2m
Yaoundé Nsimalen International AirportNSI
Yaoundé · 294 km from Bamenda
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 8m
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 | 11:42 AM | +0h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:42 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:42 AM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:42 PM | +3h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:42 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:42 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:42 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:42 AM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
Bamenda is in the Africa/Douala timezone (WAT), with a UTC offset of +01:00.
Bamenda 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 Bamenda is UTC+01:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Bamenda, 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 · 11:42 GMT+1. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Bamenda sits at 5.96°N, 10.15°E in Cameroon, with about 420.4K residents (rank #3 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Bamenda is London, about 5,153 km away as the crow flies.
Bafoussam is the closest indexed city, roughly 61 km from Bamenda.
Douala International Airport (DLA) is the closest curated airport reference, about 222 km from Bamenda.
Bamenda uses Central African CFA franc (XAF, symbol Fr) as the local currency of Cameroon.
The longest day of 2026 in Bamenda falls on Jun 9 with about 12h 28m of daylight. The shortest is Jan 1 with 11h 47m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
In Bamenda 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.