Indexed entity
Mbuji-Mayi is the mbuji-mayi-CD record in Congo - Kinshasa: country slug democratic-republic-of-the-congo, city slug mbuji-mayi, ISO CD, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Lubumbashi.
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Live local time
Mbuji-Mayi, Congo - Kinshasa
05:12:10 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Lubumbashi
Quick answer
It is currently 05:12:10 PM (CAT, UTC+02:00) in Mbuji-Mayi, Congo - Kinshasa — Afternoon.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
23°C
Partly cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
35°C
23°C
Wed
35°C
22°C
Thu
36°C
22°C
In 28 days
Tue, Jun 30, 2026
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Parents' Day
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Congolese Genocide Day
Sun, Aug 2, 2026
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Code
CDF
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Today
Sunrise
06:30 AM
Sunset
06:17 PM
Day length
11h 47m
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 Mbuji-Mayi, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 3:12 PM UTC.
Current local time
05:12:10 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
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Mbuji-Mayi right now
Nearest airport
FBM
Lubumbashi International Airport · 745 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 Mbuji-Mayi, Congo - Kinshasa.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 17:12 GMT+2
No reference-city overlap right now
Mbuji-Mayi 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
04:12 PM / -1h
New York
11:12 AM / -6h
Los Angeles
08:12 AM / -9h
Schedule risk
Independence Day on Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Travel cue
FBM Lubumbashi, 745 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:30 AM to 06:17 PM, with solar noon around 12:24 PM and total daylight of 11h 47m.
Mapped location
6.14°S, 23.59°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
04:12 PM / -1h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
11:12 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
08:12 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
07:12 PM / +2h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
11:12 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 Mbuji-Mayi.
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 Mbuji-Mayi 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, 745 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
Mbuji-Mayi 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 Mbuji-Mayi.
Canonical route
/time/democratic-republic-of-the-congo/mbuji-mayi/
Catalog identity
mbuji-mayi-CD · CD · Africa
Coordinate cell
6.14°S, 23.59°E · lat -6.136 · lon 23.590 · cell -614:2359
Population record
2,101,332 residents · country rank 3
Zone snapshot
Africa/Lubumbashi · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Kananga, Democratic Republic of the Congo · 132 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 4,886 km
Closest airport references
FBM Lubumbashi 745 km · FKI Kisangani 761 km · FIH Kinshasa 923 km
Zone peer roster
Lubumbashi, 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 Mbuji-Mayi: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Mbuji-Mayi is the mbuji-mayi-CD record in Congo - Kinshasa: country slug democratic-republic-of-the-congo, city slug mbuji-mayi, ISO CD, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Lubumbashi.
6.14°S, 23.59°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -7 and longitude band 23; exact decimal pair -6.13603, 23.58979.
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 Mbuji-Mayi 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.
Kananga [kananga-CD, CD, Africa/Lubumbashi, 132 km]; Kikwit [kikwit-CD, CD, Africa/Kinshasa, 542 km]; Rumonge [rumonge-BI, BI, Africa/Bujumbura, 691 km]; Bujumbura [bujumbura-BI, BI, Africa/Bujumbura, 709 km]; Lubumbashi [lubumbashi-CD, CD, Africa/Lubumbashi, 748 km]; Kisangani [kisangani-CD, CD, Africa/Lubumbashi, 761 km]; Gitega [gitega-BI, BI, Africa/Bujumbura, 764 km]; Ngozi [ngozi-BI, BI, Africa/Bujumbura, 779 km]
Mbuji-Mayi 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 4,886 km; London 6,797 km; São Paulo 7,722 km; Singapore 8,944 km; New York 11,092 km; Tokyo 12,749 km; Sydney 12,941 km; Los Angeles 15,015 km
FBM Lubumbashi International Airport in Lubumbashi [CD, 745 km]; FKI Bangoka International Airport in Kisangani [CD, 761 km]; FIH Ndjili International Airport in Kinshasa [CD, 923 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].
Mbuji-Mayi renders Jun 2, 2026 · 17:12 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 Mbuji-Mayi.
Mbuji-Mayi is a manual-dossier city; rank #3 of 8 retained Congo - Kinshasa city pages. The route is /time/democratic-republic-of-the-congo/mbuji-mayi/ and the city id is mbuji-mayi-CD.
Mbuji-Mayi 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.
Mbuji-Mayi is pinned at 6.14°S, 23.59°E; Kananga (132 km); Dubai (4,886 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 (745 km) · Independence Day (Tuesday, June 30, 2026) · 3 country airport references · 11 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Mbuji-Mayi 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.
Mbuji-Mayi: Mbuji-Mayi is a city and the capital of Kasai-Oriental Province in the south-central Democratic Republic of Congo. It is thought to be the second largest city in the country, after the capital Kinshasa and ahead of Lubumbashi, Kisangani and Kananga, though its exact population is not known. Estimates range from a 2010 CIA World Factbook estimated population of 1,480,000 to as many as 3,500,000 estimated by the United Nations in 2008.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Mbuji-Mayi 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 23.59°, Mbuji-Mayi's mean solar noon falls about 26 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.
Mbuji-Mayi sits at 6.14°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Mbuji-Mayi sits at 6.14°S, 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
Dec 15 (12h 29m)
Shortest day
Jun 8 (11h 46m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 43m
See the full daylight curve for Mbuji-Mayi at /sun/mbuji-mayi/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Mbuji-Mayi local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Mbuji-Mayi |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Mbuji-Mayi (formerly Bakwanga) is the capital of Kasaï-Oriental province in the south-central Democratic Republic of the Congo and one of the country's most populous cities, with an estimated population of around 2 million or more. Central Africa Time (CAT, UTC+2) is the western DRC's civil time and is fixed year-round with no daylight saving. The city sits atop one of the largest known deposits of industrial diamonds in the world and has been the historic centre of Congolese diamond mining, long dominated by the state-linked MIBA company. Mbuji-Mayi grew rapidly after Congolese independence in 1960 with the influx of Luba people, and from 1960 to 1962 it briefly served as the capital of the secessionist state of South Kasai.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Mbuji-Mayi's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 05:12:10 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Mbuji-Mayi (UTC+02:00, CAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:30 AM to 06:17 PM
Day length 11h 47m · Solar noon 12:24 PM
Next country holiday
Independence Day
Tuesday, June 30, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Mbuji-Mayi local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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187 days to go
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5 days to go
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161 days to go
Population
2.1M
Coordinates
-6.14, 23.59
Timezone
Africa/Lubumbashi
Indexed airports
3
Capital
Kinshasa
Languages
French, Kikongo
Currency
CDF (FC)
Country area
2,344,858 km²
Mbuji-Mayi, Congo - Kinshasa (population rank #3 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Lubumbashi (CAT, UTC+02:00); population ~2.1M.
Coordinates: 6.14°S, 23.59°E. Southern Hemisphere deep tropics, ~681 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:30 AM and sets around 06:17 PM in Mbuji-Mayi — about 11h 47m of daylight. Congo - Kinshasa stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Kananga (132 km from Mbuji-Mayi) 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.
Mbuji-Mayi 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/mbuji-mayi/.
Location context: 6.14°S, 23.59°E; population 2,101,332; nearest indexed city Kananga is about 132 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 4,886 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.
Mbuji-Mayi 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 23.59°, Mbuji-Mayi's mean solar noon falls about 26 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.
Mbuji-Mayi sits at 6.14°S, 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 2.1 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Mbuji-Mayi: 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 Mbuji-Mayi.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Mbuji-Mayi: closest hubs Dubai (~4,886 km), London (~6,797 km), São Paulo (~7,722 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~15,015 km).
Mbuji-Mayi sits inside Congo - Kinshasa — the Middle Africa subregion, capital Kinshasa, languages French, Kikongo, Lingala, currency CDF (FC).
Closest indexed cities to Mbuji-Mayi: Kananga (132 km), Kikwit (542 km), Rumonge (691 km), Bujumbura (709 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Mbuji-Mayi: Independence Day, Parents' Day, Congolese Genocide Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Congo - Kinshasa.
Closest curated airport references from Mbuji-Mayi: FBM Lubumbashi (745 km), FKI Kisangani (761 km), FIH Kinshasa (923 km).
Lubumbashi International AirportFBM
Lubumbashi · 745 km from Mbuji-Mayi
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 42m
Bangoka International AirportFKI
Kisangani · 761 km from Mbuji-Mayi
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 44m
Ndjili International AirportFIH
Kinshasa · 923 km from Mbuji-Mayi
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 56m
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 | 04:12 PM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 11:12 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 08:12 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 07:12 PM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 11:12 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 12:12 AM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 01:12 AM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 12:12 PM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Kananga
Congo - Kinshasa
Approx. 132 km away
Kikwit
Congo - Kinshasa
Approx. 542 km away
Rumonge
Burundi
Approx. 691 km away
Bujumbura
Burundi
Approx. 709 km away
Lubumbashi
Congo - Kinshasa
Approx. 748 km away
Kisangani
Congo - Kinshasa
Approx. 761 km away
Gitega
Burundi
Approx. 764 km away
Ngozi
Burundi
Approx. 779 km away
Mbuji-Mayi is in the Africa/Lubumbashi timezone (CAT), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Mbuji-Mayi 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 Mbuji-Mayi is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Mbuji-Mayi, 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 · 17:12 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Mbuji-Mayi sits at 6.14°S, 23.59°E in Congo - Kinshasa, with about 2.1M residents (rank #3 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Mbuji-Mayi is Dubai, about 4,886 km away as the crow flies.
Kananga is the closest indexed city, roughly 132 km from Mbuji-Mayi.
Lubumbashi International Airport (FBM) is the closest curated airport reference, about 745 km from Mbuji-Mayi.
Independence Day is the next upcoming holiday in Congo - Kinshasa, on Tuesday, June 30, 2026.
Mbuji-Mayi uses Congolese franc (CDF, symbol FC) as the local currency of Congo - Kinshasa.
The longest day of 2026 in Mbuji-Mayi falls on Dec 15 with about 12h 29m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 8 with 11h 46m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
Congo - Kinshasa spans 2 IANA time zones in total; Mbuji-Mayi's canonical zone for this page is Africa/Lubumbashi.
In Mbuji-Mayi 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.