Indexed entity
Kisangani is the kisangani-CD record in Congo - Kinshasa: country slug democratic-republic-of-the-congo, city slug kisangani, ISO CD, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Lubumbashi.
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Live local time
Kisangani, Congo - Kinshasa
12:48:10 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Lubumbashi
Quick answer
It is currently 12:48:10 PM (CAT, UTC+02:00) in Kisangani, Congo - Kinshasa — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
25°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
35°C
24°C
69% rain
Wed
34°C
24°C
53% rain
Thu
35°C
24°C
90% rain
In 28 days
Tue, Jun 30, 2026
PublicIn 60 days
Parents' Day
Sat, Aug 1, 2026
PublicIn 61 days
Congolese Genocide Day
Sun, Aug 2, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
CDF
Live ECB rate not available for this currency.
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Today
Sunrise
06:12 AM
Sunset
06:21 PM
Day length
12h 9m
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 Kisangani, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:48 AM UTC.
Current local time
12:48:10 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CAT
Africa/Lubumbashi · UTC+02:00
Next holiday
Independence Day
Tuesday, June 30, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Kisangani right now
Nearest airport
FKI
Bangoka International Airport · 17 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 Kisangani, Congo - Kinshasa.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:48 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Kisangani 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
11:48 AM / -1h
Dubai
02:48 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
Independence Day on Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Travel cue
FKI Kisangani, 17 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:12 AM to 06:21 PM, with solar noon around 12:17 PM and total daylight of 12h 9m.
Mapped location
0.52°N, 25.19°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:48 AM / -1h
Good live-call window with Kisangani right now.
New York
06:48 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:48 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:48 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Kisangani right now.
Singapore
06:48 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 Kisangani.
FKI · Bangoka International Airport
Kisangani
FIH · Ndjili International Airport
Kinshasa
FBM · Lubumbashi International Airport
Lubumbashi
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Lubumbashi 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 Kisangani right now.
Check local interruptions
Independence Day on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: FKI Kisangani, 17 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Lubumbashi. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Kisangani 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 Kisangani.
Canonical route
/time/democratic-republic-of-the-congo/kisangani/
Catalog identity
kisangani-CD · CD · Africa
Coordinate cell
0.52°N, 25.19°E · lat 0.515 · lon 25.191 · cell 52:2519
Population record
1,181,788 residents · country rank 5
Zone snapshot
Africa/Lubumbashi · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Gisenyi, Rwanda · 515 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 4,239 km
Closest airport references
FKI Kisangani 17 km · FIH Kinshasa 1212 km · FBM Lubumbashi 1371 km
Zone peer roster
Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo · Mbuji-Mayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo · Kananga, Democratic Republic of the Congo
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Kisangani: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Kisangani is the kisangani-CD record in Congo - Kinshasa: country slug democratic-republic-of-the-congo, city slug kisangani, ISO CD, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Lubumbashi.
0.52°N, 25.19°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 0 and longitude band 25; exact decimal pair 0.51528, 25.19099.
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 Kisangani 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.
Gisenyi [gisenyi-RW, RW, Africa/Kigali, 515 km]; Musanze [musanze-RW, RW, Africa/Kigali, 543 km]; Nyagatare [nyagatare-RW, RW, Africa/Kigali, 605 km]; Kigali [kigali-RW, RW, Africa/Kigali, 607 km]; Bujumbura [bujumbura-BI, BI, Africa/Bujumbura, 635 km]; Ngozi [ngozi-BI, BI, Africa/Bujumbura, 641 km]; Gitega [gitega-BI, BI, Africa/Bujumbura, 685 km]; Rumonge [rumonge-BI, BI, Africa/Bujumbura, 687 km]
Kisangani 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 4,239 km; London 6,146 km; São Paulo 8,184 km; Singapore 8,742 km; New York 10,744 km; Tokyo 12,157 km; Sydney 13,294 km; Los Angeles 14,603 km
FKI Bangoka International Airport in Kisangani [CD, 17 km]; FIH Ndjili International Airport in Kinshasa [CD, 1212 km]; FBM Lubumbashi International Airport in Lubumbashi [CD, 1371 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].
Kisangani renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:48 GMT+2; GMT+2 at UTC+02:00; January UTC+02:00; July UTC+02:00; 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 Kisangani.
Kisangani is a manual-dossier city; rank #5 of 8 retained Congo - Kinshasa city pages. The route is /time/democratic-republic-of-the-congo/kisangani/ and the city id is kisangani-CD.
Kisangani 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.
Kisangani is pinned at 0.52°N, 25.19°E; Gisenyi (515 km); Dubai (4,239 km).
Africa/Lubumbashi resolves to stable UTC+02:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Congo - Kinshasa.
FKI Bangoka International Airport (17 km) · Independence Day (Tuesday, June 30, 2026) · 3 country airport references · 11 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Kisangani 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.
Kisangani: Kisangani, formerly Stanleyville, is the capital of Tshopo Province, located on the Congo River in the eastern part of the central Congo Basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the country's fifth-most populous urban area, with an estimated population of 1,602,144 as of 2016, and the largest of the cities in the tropical woodlands of the Congo.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Kisangani 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 25.19°, Kisangani'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.
Kisangani sits at 0.52°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Kisangani sits at 0.52°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
May 17 (12h 9m)
Shortest day
Jan 1 (12h 5m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 4m
See the full daylight curve for Kisangani at /sun/kisangani/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Kisangani local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Kisangani |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
IANA time zones in country
2
Public holidays in 2026
11
Kisangani is a major city in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the capital of Tshopo province, with a population of roughly 1.2 million. It observes East Africa Time (EAT, UTC+3) year-round, with no daylight saving, placing it one hour ahead of the western DRC. Located on the Congo River just below Boyoma Falls (formerly the Stanley Falls), Kisangani is the farthest navigable inland river port from the Atlantic and a key transport gateway to the country's interior. Formerly known as Stanleyville, the city is a regional centre for trade, river transport, and the surrounding rainforest economy, and was a notable setting in colonial-era exploration of the Congo basin.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Kisangani's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:48:10 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Kisangani (UTC+02:00, CAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:12 AM to 06:21 PM
Day length 12h 9m · Solar noon 12:17 PM
Next country holiday
Independence Day
Tuesday, June 30, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Kisangani local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
keynoteSunday, December 6, 2026
187 days to go
Population
1.2M
Coordinates
0.52, 25.19
Timezone
Africa/Lubumbashi
Indexed airports
3
Capital
Kinshasa
Languages
French, Kikongo
Currency
CDF (FC)
Country area
2,344,858 km²
Kisangani, Congo - Kinshasa (population rank #5 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Lubumbashi (CAT, UTC+02:00); population ~1.2M.
Coordinates: 0.52°N, 25.19°E. Equatorial Hemisphere deep tropics, ~57 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:12 AM and sets around 06:21 PM in Kisangani — about 12h 9m of daylight. Congo - Kinshasa stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Gisenyi (515 km from Kisangani) 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.
Kisangani is indexed as a Africa city in the CD country record, using Africa/Lubumbashi as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/democratic-republic-of-the-congo/kisangani/.
Location context: 0.52°N, 25.19°E; population 1,181,788; nearest indexed city Gisenyi is about 515 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 4,239 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 (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Kisangani 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 25.19°, Kisangani'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.
Kisangani sits at 0.52°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Major metropolitan area with around 1.2 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Kisangani: Kinshasa (−1h), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), Singapore (+6h), Mumbai (+3.5h).
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
CAT
IANA Zone
Africa/Lubumbashi
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 Kisangani.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Kisangani: closest hubs Dubai (~4,239 km), London (~6,146 km), São Paulo (~8,184 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~14,603 km).
Kisangani sits inside Congo - Kinshasa — the Middle Africa subregion, capital Kinshasa, languages French, Kikongo, Lingala, currency CDF (FC).
Closest indexed cities to Kisangani: Gisenyi (515 km), Musanze (543 km), Nyagatare (605 km), Kigali (607 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Kisangani: Independence Day, Parents' Day, Congolese Genocide Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Congo - Kinshasa.
Closest curated airport references from Kisangani: FKI Kisangani (17 km), FIH Kinshasa (1212 km), FBM Lubumbashi (1371 km).
Bangoka International AirportFKI
Kisangani · 17 km from Kisangani
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Ndjili International AirportFIH
Kinshasa · 1212 km from Kisangani
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 18m
Lubumbashi International AirportFBM
Lubumbashi · 1371 km from Kisangani
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 30m
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 | 11:48 AM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:48 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:48 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:48 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:48 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:48 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:48 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:48 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Kisangani is in the Africa/Lubumbashi timezone (CAT), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Kisangani 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 Kisangani is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Kisangani, 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 · 12:48 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Kisangani sits at 0.52°N, 25.19°E in Congo - Kinshasa, with about 1.2M residents (rank #5 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Kisangani is Dubai, about 4,239 km away as the crow flies.
Gisenyi is the closest indexed city, roughly 515 km from Kisangani.
Bangoka International Airport (FKI) is the closest curated airport reference, about 17 km from Kisangani.
Independence Day is the next upcoming holiday in Congo - Kinshasa, on Tuesday, June 30, 2026.
Kisangani uses Congolese franc (CDF, symbol FC) as the local currency of Congo - Kinshasa.
The longest day of 2026 in Kisangani falls on May 17 with about 12h 9m of daylight. The shortest is Jan 1 with 12h 5m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
Congo - Kinshasa spans 2 IANA time zones in total; Kisangani's canonical zone for this page is Africa/Lubumbashi.
In Kisangani 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.