Indexed entity
Lubumbashi is the lubumbashi-CD record in Congo - Kinshasa: country slug democratic-republic-of-the-congo, city slug lubumbashi, ISO CD, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Lubumbashi.
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Live local time
Lubumbashi, Congo - Kinshasa
08:04:46 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Lubumbashi
Quick answer
It is currently 08:04:46 PM (CAT, UTC+02:00) in Lubumbashi, Congo - Kinshasa — Evening.
Pronunciation
Updated 9 days ago
Right now
16°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
27°C
15°C
Wed
27°C
15°C
Thu
27°C
15°C
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
06:23 AM
Sunset
05:52 PM
Day length
11h 29m
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 Lubumbashi, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 6:04 PM UTC.
Current local time
08:04:46 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
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Lubumbashi right now
Nearest airport
FBM
Lubumbashi International Airport · 10 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 Lubumbashi, Congo - Kinshasa.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 20:04 GMT+2
No reference-city overlap right now
Lubumbashi is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC+02:00
Zone label
GMT+2
London
07:04 PM / -1h
New York
02:04 PM / -6h
Los Angeles
11:04 AM / -9h
Schedule risk
Independence Day on Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Travel cue
FBM Lubumbashi, 10 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:23 AM to 05:52 PM, with solar noon around 12:08 PM and total daylight of 11h 29m.
Mapped location
11.66°S, 27.48°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
07:04 PM / -1h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
02:04 PM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
11:04 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
10:04 PM / +2h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
02:04 AM / +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 Lubumbashi.
FBM · Lubumbashi International Airport
Lubumbashi
FKI · Bangoka International Airport
Kisangani
FIH · Ndjili International Airport
Kinshasa
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
No reference city overlaps Lubumbashi right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
Independence Day on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: FBM Lubumbashi, 10 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
Lubumbashi 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 Lubumbashi.
Canonical route
/time/democratic-republic-of-the-congo/lubumbashi/
Catalog identity
lubumbashi-CD · CD · Africa
Coordinate cell
11.66°S, 27.48°E · lat -11.661 · lon 27.479 · cell -1166:2748
Population record
2,221,925 residents · country rank 2
Zone snapshot
Africa/Lubumbashi · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Kitwe, Zambia · 150 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 5,087 km
Closest airport references
FBM Lubumbashi 10 km · FKI Kisangani 1371 km · FIH Kinshasa 1552 km
Zone peer roster
Mbuji-Mayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo · Kananga, Democratic Republic of the Congo · Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Lubumbashi: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Lubumbashi is the lubumbashi-CD record in Congo - Kinshasa: country slug democratic-republic-of-the-congo, city slug lubumbashi, ISO CD, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Lubumbashi.
11.66°S, 27.48°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -12 and longitude band 27; exact decimal pair -11.66089, 27.47938.
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 Lubumbashi 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.
Kitwe [kitwe-ZM, ZM, Africa/Lusaka, 150 km]; Ndola [ndola-ZM, ZM, Africa/Lusaka, 191 km]; Lusaka [lusaka-ZM, ZM, Africa/Lusaka, 426 km]; Chipata [chipata-ZM, ZM, Africa/Lusaka, 602 km]; Mzuzu [mzuzu-MW, MW, Africa/Blantyre, 713 km]; Lilongwe [lilongwe-MW, MW, Africa/Blantyre, 730 km]; Mbuji-Mayi [mbuji-mayi-CD, CD, Africa/Lubumbashi, 748 km]; Harare [harare-ZW, ZW, Africa/Harare, 786 km]
Lubumbashi 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 5,087 km; London 7,511 km; São Paulo 7,888 km; Singapore 8,552 km; New York 11,813 km; Sydney 12,210 km; Tokyo 12,756 km; Los Angeles 15,745 km
FBM Lubumbashi International Airport in Lubumbashi [CD, 10 km]; FKI Bangoka International Airport in Kisangani [CD, 1371 km]; FIH Ndjili International Airport in Kinshasa [CD, 1552 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].
Lubumbashi renders Jun 2, 2026 · 20:04 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 Lubumbashi.
Lubumbashi is a manual-dossier city; rank #2 of 8 retained Congo - Kinshasa city pages. The route is /time/democratic-republic-of-the-congo/lubumbashi/ and the city id is lubumbashi-CD.
Lubumbashi 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.
Lubumbashi is pinned at 11.66°S, 27.48°E; Kitwe (150 km); Dubai (5,087 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.
FBM Lubumbashi International Airport (10 km) · Independence Day (Tuesday, June 30, 2026) · 3 country airport references · 11 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Lubumbashi 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.
Lubumbashi: Lubumbashi, formerly Élisabethville, is the second-largest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located in the southeasternmost part of the country, near the border with Zambia. The capital and principal city of the Haut-Katanga Province, Lubumbashi is the center of mining in the region, acting as a hub for many of the country's largest mining companies. No definite population figures are available, but the population of the city's urban area is estimated to be around 2,584,000 in 2021.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Lubumbashi 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 27.48°, Lubumbashi's mean solar noon falls about 10 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.
Lubumbashi sits at 11.66°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.
Lubumbashi sits at 11.66°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 20 (12h 49m)
Shortest day
Jun 17 (11h 26m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
1h 23m
See the full daylight curve for Lubumbashi at /sun/lubumbashi/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Lubumbashi local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Lubumbashi |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Lubumbashi is the second-largest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with a population of roughly 2.2 million, and the capital of Haut-Katanga province in the country's southeast. It observes Central Africa Time (CAT, UTC+2) year-round, with no daylight saving. Lubumbashi is the mining capital of the DRC, sitting at the heart of the Copperbelt, and is the country's principal centre for copper and cobalt extraction, which underpins the national economy and global battery supply chains. Founded in 1910 as Elisabethville under Belgian colonial rule, the city remains an industrial, commercial, and transport hub close to the Zambian border.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Lubumbashi's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 08:04:46 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Lubumbashi (UTC+02:00, CAT).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:23 AM to 05:52 PM
Day length 11h 29m · Solar noon 12:08 PM
Next country holiday
Independence Day
Tuesday, June 30, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Lubumbashi 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
2.2M
Coordinates
-11.66, 27.48
Timezone
Africa/Lubumbashi
Indexed airports
3
Capital
Kinshasa
Languages
French, Kikongo
Currency
CDF (FC)
Country area
2,344,858 km²
Lubumbashi, Congo - Kinshasa (population rank #2 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Lubumbashi (CAT, UTC+02:00); population ~2.2M.
Coordinates: 11.66°S, 27.48°E. Southern Hemisphere tropics, ~1294 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:23 AM and sets around 05:52 PM in Lubumbashi — about 11h 29m of daylight. Congo - Kinshasa stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Kitwe (150 km from Lubumbashi) 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.
Lubumbashi 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/lubumbashi/.
Location context: 11.66°S, 27.48°E; population 2,221,925; nearest indexed city Kitwe is about 150 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 5,087 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.
Lubumbashi 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 27.48°, Lubumbashi's mean solar noon falls about 10 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.
Lubumbashi sits at 11.66°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.
Major metropolitan area with around 2.2 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Lubumbashi: Kinshasa (−1h), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), Lima (−7h), Dar es Salaam (+1h).
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 Lubumbashi.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Lubumbashi: closest hubs Dubai (~5,087 km), London (~7,511 km), São Paulo (~7,888 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~15,745 km).
Lubumbashi sits inside Congo - Kinshasa — the Middle Africa subregion, capital Kinshasa, languages French, Kikongo, Lingala, currency CDF (FC).
Closest indexed cities to Lubumbashi: Kitwe (150 km), Ndola (191 km), Lusaka (426 km), Chipata (602 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Lubumbashi: Independence Day, Parents' Day, Congolese Genocide Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Congo - Kinshasa.
Closest curated airport references from Lubumbashi: FBM Lubumbashi (10 km), FKI Kisangani (1371 km), FIH Kinshasa (1552 km).
Lubumbashi International AirportFBM
Lubumbashi · 10 km from Lubumbashi
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Bangoka International AirportFKI
Kisangani · 1371 km from Lubumbashi
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 30m
Ndjili International AirportFIH
Kinshasa · 1552 km from Lubumbashi
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 44m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
0 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 07:04 PM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 02:04 PM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 11:04 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 10:04 PM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 02:04 AM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 03:04 AM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 04:04 AM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 03:04 PM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Lubumbashi is in the Africa/Lubumbashi timezone (CAT), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Lubumbashi 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 Lubumbashi is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Lubumbashi, 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 · 20:04 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Lubumbashi sits at 11.66°S, 27.48°E in Congo - Kinshasa, with about 2.2M residents (rank #2 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Lubumbashi is Dubai, about 5,087 km away as the crow flies.
Kitwe is the closest indexed city, roughly 150 km from Lubumbashi.
Lubumbashi International Airport (FBM) is the closest curated airport reference, about 10 km from Lubumbashi.
Independence Day is the next upcoming holiday in Congo - Kinshasa, on Tuesday, June 30, 2026.
Lubumbashi uses Congolese franc (CDF, symbol FC) as the local currency of Congo - Kinshasa.
The longest day of 2026 in Lubumbashi falls on Dec 20 with about 12h 49m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 17 with 11h 26m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
Congo - Kinshasa spans 2 IANA time zones in total; Lubumbashi's canonical zone for this page is Africa/Lubumbashi.
In Lubumbashi 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.