Indexed entity
Mbabane is the mbabane-SZ record in Eswatini: country slug eswatini, city slug mbabane, ISO SZ, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Mbabane.
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Live local time
Mbabane, Eswatini
12:46:37 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Mbabane
Quick answer
It is currently 12:46:37 PM (SAST, UTC+02:00) in Mbabane, Eswatini — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
9°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
21°C
10°C
Wed
21°C
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Thu
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13°C
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
SZL
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
06:36 AM
Sunset
05:10 PM
Day length
10h 35m
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 Mbabane, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:46 AM UTC.
Current local time
12:46:37 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
SAST
Africa/Mbabane · UTC+02:00
Next holiday
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Mbabane right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Mbabane
Indexed airports
0
Curated airport references available for Eswatini
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Mbabane, Eswatini.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:46 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Mbabane 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
11:46 AM / -1h
Dubai
02:46 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
Lobamba, 18 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:36 AM to 05:10 PM, with solar noon around 11:53 AM and total daylight of 10h 34m.
Mapped location
26.32°S, 31.13°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:46 AM / -1h
Good live-call window with Mbabane right now.
New York
06:46 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:46 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:46 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Mbabane right now.
Singapore
06:46 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 Mbabane.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Mbabane 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 Mbabane right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest mapped context: Lobamba, 18 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Mbabane. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Mbabane 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 Mbabane.
Canonical route
/time/eswatini/mbabane/
Catalog identity
mbabane-SZ · SZ · Africa
Coordinate cell
26.32°S, 31.13°E · lat -26.317 · lon 31.133 · cell -2632:3113
Population record
76,218 residents · country rank 2
Zone snapshot
Africa/Mbabane · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Lobamba, Eswatini · 18 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 6,287 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Mbabane
Zone peer roster
Manzini, Eswatini · Lobamba, Eswatini
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Mbabane: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Mbabane is the mbabane-SZ record in Eswatini: country slug eswatini, city slug mbabane, ISO SZ, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Mbabane.
26.32°S, 31.13°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -27 and longitude band 31; exact decimal pair -26.31667, 31.13333.
Eswatini: official name Kingdom of Eswatini; capital Mbabane; region Africa; subregion Southern Africa; country population 1,235,549; area 17,364 km²; languages English, Swazi; currencies SZL Swazi lilangeni, ZAR South African rand. This is the country layer behind the Mbabane clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Eswatini: Eswatini or eSwatini, officially the Kingdom of Eswatini, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by South Africa on all sides except the east, where it shares a border with Mozambique. At no more than 200 km (120 mi) north to south and 130 km (81 mi) east to west, Eswatini is one of the smallest countries in Africa. However, its climate and topography are diverse, ranging from a cool and mountainous highveld to a hot and dry lowveld. The executive capital and largest city is Mbabane, and the legislative and second capital is Lobamba. Source: Wikipedia.
Lobamba [lobamba-SZ, SZ, Africa/Mbabane, 18 km]; Manzini [manzini-SZ, SZ, Africa/Mbabane, 32 km]; Matola [matola-MZ, MZ, Africa/Maputo, 138 km]; Maputo [maputo-MZ, MZ, Africa/Maputo, 150 km]; Pretoria [pretoria-ZA, ZA, Africa/Johannesburg, 301 km]; Johannesburg [johannesburg-ZA, ZA, Africa/Johannesburg, 308 km]; Durban [durban-ZA, ZA, Africa/Johannesburg, 394 km]; Maputsoe [maputsoe-LS, LS, Africa/Maseru, 428 km]
Mbabane is part of this indexed country cluster: Manzini [manzini-SZ, Africa/Mbabane, pop 110,537]; Mbabane [mbabane-SZ, Africa/Mbabane, pop 76,218]; Lobamba [lobamba-SZ, Africa/Mbabane, pop 4,557].
Dubai 6,287 km; São Paulo 7,721 km; Singapore 8,357 km; London 9,178 km; Sydney 10,812 km; New York 13,100 km; Tokyo 13,269 km; Los Angeles 16,962 km
Mbabane has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Eswatini.
Mbabane renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:46 GMT+2; GMT+2 at UTC+02:00; January UTC+02:00; July UTC+02:00; 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 Mbabane.
Mbabane is a context-and-reference city; rank #2 of 3 retained Eswatini city pages. The route is /time/eswatini/mbabane/ and the city id is mbabane-SZ.
Mbabane has 12 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.
Mbabane is pinned at 26.32°S, 31.13°E; Lobamba (18 km); Dubai (6,287 km).
Africa/Mbabane resolves to stable UTC+02:00 offset across January and July. 2 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Eswatini.
Mbabane has no direct nearby-airport handoff · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 0 country airport references · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Mbabane 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.
Mbabane: Mbabane is the most populous city in Eswatini, and is one of the two capitals, serving as the executive capital.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Mbabane is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.
Mbabane sits at 26.32°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 21 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 39 minutes on the June solstice.
Mbabane sits at 26.32°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 21 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 39 minutes on the June solstice.
Related clock anchors: Manzini (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), Johannesburg (same time), São Paulo (−5h)
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 (13h 47m)
Shortest day
Jun 17 (10h 29m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
3h 18m
See the full daylight curve for Mbabane at /sun/mbabane/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Mbabane local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Mbabane |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Capital status
National capital of Eswatini
Reference fields include Mbabane's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:46:37 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Mbabane (UTC+02:00, SAST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:36 AM to 05:10 PM
Day length 10h 34m · Solar noon 11:53 AM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Mbabane local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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187 days to go
Population
76.2K
Coordinates
-26.32, 31.13
Timezone
Africa/Mbabane
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Mbabane
Languages
English, Swazi
Currency
SZL (L), ZAR (R)
Country area
17,364 km²
Mbabane, Eswatini (population rank #2 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Mbabane (SAST, UTC+02:00); population ~76.2K.
Coordinates: 26.32°S, 31.13°E. Southern Hemisphere subtropics, ~2921 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:36 AM and sets around 05:10 PM in Mbabane — about 10h 34m of daylight. Eswatini stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Lobamba (18 km from Mbabane) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Eswatini.
Mbabane is indexed as a Africa city in the SZ country record, using Africa/Mbabane as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/eswatini/mbabane/.
Location context: 26.32°S, 31.13°E; population 76,218; nearest indexed city Lobamba is about 18 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 6,287 km away.
Country planning context: capital Mbabane; subregion Southern Africa; languages English, Swazi; currency SZL (L), ZAR (R); area 17,364 km²; 0 curated airport references; no upcoming holiday signal currently in view.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Mbabane is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.
Mbabane sits at 26.32°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 21 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 39 minutes on the June solstice.
Related clock anchors for Mbabane: Manzini (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), Johannesburg (same time), São Paulo (−5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
eswatini
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
SAST
IANA Zone
Africa/Mbabane
UTC Offset
UTC+02:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
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 Mbabane.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Mbabane: closest hubs Dubai (~6,287 km), São Paulo (~7,721 km), Singapore (~8,357 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~16,962 km).
Mbabane sits inside Eswatini — the Southern Africa subregion, capital Mbabane, languages English, Swazi, currency SZL (L), ZAR (R).
Closest indexed cities to Mbabane: Lobamba (18 km), Manzini (32 km), Matola (138 km), Maputo (150 km).
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Mbabane, so this page falls back to timezone and regional planning context instead of showing a broken travel panel.
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 | 11:46 AM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:46 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:46 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:46 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:46 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:46 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:46 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:46 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Mbabane is in the Africa/Mbabane timezone (SAST), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Mbabane 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 Mbabane is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Mbabane, 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 · 12:46 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Mbabane sits at 26.32°S, 31.13°E in Eswatini, with about 76.2K residents (rank #2 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Mbabane is Dubai, about 6,287 km away as the crow flies.
Lobamba is the closest indexed city, roughly 18 km from Mbabane.
Mbabane uses Swazi lilangeni (SZL, symbol L) as the local currency of Eswatini.
The longest day of 2026 in Mbabane falls on Dec 15 with about 13h 47m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 17 with 10h 29m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
In Mbabane 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.