Indexed entity
Kinshasa is the kinshasa-CD record in Congo - Kinshasa: country slug democratic-republic-of-the-congo, city slug kinshasa, ISO CD, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Kinshasa.
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Live local time
Kinshasa, Congo - Kinshasa
12:25:41 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Kinshasa
Quick answer
It is currently 12:25:41 PM (WAT, UTC+01:00) in Kinshasa, Congo - Kinshasa — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
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3-day forecast
Tue
33°C
25°C
Wed
33°C
25°C
Thu
34°C
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In 28 days
Tue, Jun 30, 2026
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Parents' Day
Sat, Aug 1, 2026
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Congolese Genocide Day
Sun, Aug 2, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
CDF
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Today
Sunrise
06:00 AM
Sunset
05:53 PM
Day length
11h 53m
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 Kinshasa, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 11:25 AM UTC.
Current local time
12:25:41 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
WAT
Africa/Kinshasa · UTC+01:00
Next holiday
Independence Day
Tuesday, June 30, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Kinshasa right now
Nearest airport
FIH
Ndjili International Airport · 16 km
Indexed airports
3
Curated airport references available for Congo - Kinshasa
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Kinshasa, Congo - Kinshasa.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:25 GMT+1
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Kinshasa 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
12:25 PM / +0h
Dubai
03:25 PM / +3h
Schedule risk
Independence Day on Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Travel cue
FIH Kinshasa, 16 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:00 AM to 05:53 PM, with solar noon around 11:57 AM and total daylight of 11h 53m.
Mapped location
4.33°S, 15.31°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
12:25 PM / +0h
Good live-call window with Kinshasa right now.
New York
07:25 AM / -5h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
04:25 AM / -8h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
03:25 PM / +3h
Good live-call window with Kinshasa right now.
Singapore
07:25 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 Kinshasa.
FIH · Ndjili International Airport
Kinshasa
FKI · Bangoka International Airport
Kisangani
FBM · Lubumbashi International Airport
Lubumbashi
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Kinshasa 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 Kinshasa right now.
Check local interruptions
Independence Day on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: FIH Kinshasa, 16 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Kinshasa. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Kinshasa has no near-term DST change in view, but Independence 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 Kinshasa.
Canonical route
/time/democratic-republic-of-the-congo/kinshasa/
Catalog identity
kinshasa-CD · CD · Africa
Coordinate cell
4.33°S, 15.31°E · lat -4.328 · lon 15.314 · cell -433:1531
Population record
16,000,000 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Africa/Kinshasa · GMT+1 · UTC+01:00
January / July offsets
UTC+01:00 / UTC+01:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo · 8 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 5,420 km
Closest airport references
FIH Kinshasa 16 km · FKI Kisangani 1235 km · FBM Lubumbashi 1568 km
Zone peer roster
Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo · Masina, Democratic Republic of the Congo · Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of the Congo
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Kinshasa: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Kinshasa is the kinshasa-CD record in Congo - Kinshasa: country slug democratic-republic-of-the-congo, city slug kinshasa, ISO CD, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Kinshasa.
4.33°S, 15.31°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -5 and longitude band 15; exact decimal pair -4.32758, 15.31357.
Congo - Kinshasa: official name Democratic Republic of the Congo; capital Kinshasa; region Africa; subregion Middle Africa; country population 112,832,000; area 2,344,858 km²; languages French, Kikongo, Lingala, Tshiluba, Swahili; currencies CDF Congolese franc. This is the country layer behind the Kinshasa clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo or less often Zaire, is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is the second-largest country in Africa and the eleventh-largest in the world. With a population of around 124 million people, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the fourth-most populous country in Africa and the most populous Francophone country in the world. French is the official and most widely spoken language, though there are over 200 indigenous languages, of which Lingala is the most widely spoken. The capital, largest city, and economic center is Kinshasa. The DRC is bordered by the Republic of the Congo, the Cabinda exclave of Angola, and the South Atlantic Ocean to the west; the Central African Republic and South Sudan to the north; Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania to the east; and Zambia and Angola to the south. Centered on the Congo Basin, most of the country's terrain is covered by dense rainforests and is crossed by many rivers, while the east and southeast are mountainous. Source: Wikipedia.
Brazzaville [brazzaville-CG, CG, Africa/Brazzaville, 8 km]; Masina [masina-CD, CD, Africa/Kinshasa, 11 km]; Nkayi [nkayi-CG, CG, Africa/Brazzaville, 225 km]; Dolisie [dolisie-CG, CG, Africa/Brazzaville, 294 km]; Franceville [franceville-GA, GA, Africa/Libreville, 356 km]; Pointe-Noire [pointe-noire-CG, CG, Africa/Brazzaville, 386 km]; Kikwit [kikwit-CD, CD, Africa/Kinshasa, 396 km]; Luanda [luanda-AO, AO, Africa/Luanda, 551 km]
Kinshasa is part of this indexed country cluster: Kinshasa [kinshasa-CD, Africa/Kinshasa, pop 16,000,000]; Lubumbashi [lubumbashi-CD, Africa/Lubumbashi, pop 2,221,925]; Mbuji-Mayi [mbuji-mayi-CD, Africa/Lubumbashi, pop 2,101,332]; Kananga [kananga-CD, Africa/Lubumbashi, pop 1,247,168]; Kisangani [kisangani-CD, Africa/Lubumbashi, pop 1,181,788]; Kikwit [kikwit-CD, Africa/Kinshasa, pop 509,367]; Masina [masina-CD, Africa/Kinshasa, pop 485,167]; Mbandaka [mbandaka-CD, Africa/Kinshasa, pop 455,011].
Dubai 5,420 km; London 6,380 km; São Paulo 6,962 km; Singapore 9,853 km; New York 10,264 km; Tokyo 13,350 km; Sydney 13,737 km; Los Angeles 14,200 km
FIH Ndjili International Airport in Kinshasa [CD, 16 km]; FKI Bangoka International Airport in Kisangani [CD, 1235 km]; FBM Lubumbashi International Airport in Lubumbashi [CD, 1568 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include FBM Lubumbashi International Airport in Lubumbashi [CD]; FIH Ndjili International Airport in Kinshasa [CD]; FKI Bangoka International Airport in Kisangani [CD].
Kinshasa renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:25 GMT+1; GMT+1 at UTC+01:00; January UTC+01:00; July UTC+01:00; next holiday Independence Day on 2026-06-30.
This evidence pack keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Kinshasa.
Kinshasa is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 8 retained Congo - Kinshasa city pages. The route is /time/democratic-republic-of-the-congo/kinshasa/ and the city id is kinshasa-CD.
Kinshasa has 16 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.
Kinshasa is pinned at 4.33°S, 15.31°E; Brazzaville (8 km); Dubai (5,420 km).
Africa/Kinshasa resolves to stable UTC+01:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Congo - Kinshasa.
FIH Ndjili International Airport (16 km) · Independence Day (Tuesday, June 30, 2026) · 3 country airport references · 11 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Kinshasa 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.
Kinshasa: Kinshasa, formerly named Léopoldville from 1881 to 1966, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kinshasa is one of the world's fastest-growing megacities, with an estimated population of 18.5 million in 2026. It is the most densely populated city in the DRC, the third-most populous city and third-largest metropolitan area in Africa, the world's seventh-most populous city proper and fourth-most populous capital city. It is the leading economic, political, and cultural center of the DRC, housing several industries including manufacturing, telecommunications, banking, and entertainment. The city also hosts some of the DRC's significant institutional buildings, such as the People's Palace, Palace of the Nation, Constitutional Court, Court of Cassation, Council of State, African Union City, Marble Palace, Government House, Kinshasa Financial Center, and other national departments and agencies.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+01:00) is constant year-round.
Kinshasa 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.
Kinshasa sits at 4.33°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Kinshasa sits at 4.33°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Megacity with roughly 16 million urban residents — among the largest metropolitan areas in the world.
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
Jan 1 (12h 22m)
Shortest day
Jun 11 (11h 52m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 30m
See the full daylight curve for Kinshasa at /sun/kinshasa/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Kinshasa local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Kinshasa |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
IANA time zones in country
2
Public holidays in 2026
11
Capital status
National capital of Congo - Kinshasa
Kinshasa is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with a metropolitan population estimated at around 16 million, making it the most populous city in sub-Saharan Africa and, with neighbouring Brazzaville directly across the river, one of the closest pairs of national capitals in the world. The city sits on the south bank of the Congo River, which it shares as a border with the Republic of the Congo. West African Time (WAT, UTC+1) governs civil time year-round, with no daylight saving observed. As the third-largest French-speaking urban area in the world, Kinshasa anchors the DRC's administration, the Université de Kinshasa, and a fast-growing music scene that gave global currency to Congolese rumba.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Kinshasa's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:25:41 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Kinshasa (UTC+01:00, WAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:00 AM to 05:53 PM
Day length 11h 53m · Solar noon 11:57 AM
Next country holiday
Independence Day
Tuesday, June 30, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Kinshasa local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
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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
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34 days to go
Population
16M
Coordinates
-4.33, 15.31
Timezone
Africa/Kinshasa
Indexed airports
3
Capital
Kinshasa
Languages
French, Kikongo
Currency
CDF (FC)
Country area
2,344,858 km²
Kinshasa, Congo - Kinshasa (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Kinshasa (WAT, UTC+01:00); population ~16M.
Coordinates: 4.33°S, 15.31°E. Equatorial Hemisphere deep tropics, ~480 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:00 AM and sets around 05:53 PM in Kinshasa — about 11h 53m of daylight. Congo - Kinshasa stays on standard time here, so UTC+01:00 is stable through the year.
Brazzaville (8 km from Kinshasa) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 3 curated airport pages indexed for Congo - Kinshasa.
Next national holiday: Independence Day, 2026-06-30.
Kinshasa is indexed as a Africa city in the CD country record, using Africa/Kinshasa as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/democratic-republic-of-the-congo/kinshasa/.
Location context: 4.33°S, 15.31°E; population 16,000,000; nearest indexed city Brazzaville is about 8 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 5,420 km away.
Country planning context: capital Kinshasa; subregion Middle Africa; languages French, Kikongo, Lingala, Tshiluba; currency CDF (FC); area 2,344,858 km²; 3 curated airport references; next holiday Independence Day on 2026-06-30.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+01:00) is constant year-round.
Kinshasa 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.
Kinshasa sits at 4.33°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Megacity with roughly 16 million urban residents — among the largest metropolitan areas in the world.
Related clock anchors for Kinshasa: Lubumbashi (+1h), 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.
democratic-republic-of-the-congo
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
WAT
IANA Zone
Africa/Kinshasa
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 Kinshasa.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Kinshasa: closest hubs Dubai (~5,420 km), London (~6,380 km), São Paulo (~6,962 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~14,200 km).
Kinshasa sits inside Congo - Kinshasa — the Middle Africa subregion, capital Kinshasa, languages French, Kikongo, Lingala, currency CDF (FC).
Closest indexed cities to Kinshasa: Brazzaville (8 km), Masina (11 km), Nkayi (225 km), Dolisie (294 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Kinshasa: Independence Day, Parents' Day, Congolese Genocide Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Congo - Kinshasa.
Closest curated airport references from Kinshasa: FIH Kinshasa (16 km), FKI Kisangani (1235 km), FBM Lubumbashi (1568 km).
Ndjili International AirportFIH
Kinshasa · 16 km from Kinshasa
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Bangoka International AirportFKI
Kisangani · 1235 km from Kinshasa
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 20m
Lubumbashi International AirportFBM
Lubumbashi · 1568 km from Kinshasa
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 46m
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 | 12:25 PM | +0h | Good to call now |
| New York | 07:25 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 04:25 AM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 03:25 PM | +3h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 07:25 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 08:25 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 09:25 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 08:25 AM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
Brazzaville
Congo - Brazzaville
Approx. 8 km away
Masina
Congo - Kinshasa
Approx. 11 km away
Nkayi
Congo - Brazzaville
Approx. 225 km away
Dolisie
Congo - Brazzaville
Approx. 294 km away
Franceville
Gabon
Approx. 356 km away
Pointe-Noire
Congo - Brazzaville
Approx. 386 km away
Kikwit
Congo - Kinshasa
Approx. 396 km away
Luanda
Angola
Approx. 551 km away
Kinshasa is in the Africa/Kinshasa timezone (WAT), with a UTC offset of +01:00.
Kinshasa 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 Kinshasa is UTC+01:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Kinshasa, 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 · 12:25 GMT+1. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Kinshasa sits at 4.33°S, 15.31°E in Congo - Kinshasa, with about 16M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Kinshasa is Dubai, about 5,420 km away as the crow flies.
Brazzaville is the closest indexed city, roughly 8 km from Kinshasa.
Ndjili International Airport (FIH) is the closest curated airport reference, about 16 km from Kinshasa.
Independence Day is the next upcoming holiday in Congo - Kinshasa, on Tuesday, June 30, 2026.
Kinshasa uses Congolese franc (CDF, symbol FC) as the local currency of Congo - Kinshasa.
The longest day of 2026 in Kinshasa falls on Jan 1 with about 12h 22m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 11 with 11h 52m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
Congo - Kinshasa spans 2 IANA time zones in total; Kinshasa's canonical zone for this page is Africa/Kinshasa.
In Kinshasa 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.