Indexed entity
Libreville is the libreville-GA record in Gabon: country slug gabon, city slug libreville, ISO GA, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Libreville.
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Live local time
Libreville, Gabon
11:46:38 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Libreville
Quick answer
It is currently 11:46:38 AM (WAT, UTC+01:00) in Libreville, Gabon — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
25°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
29°C
25°C
96% rain
Wed
29°C
25°C
92% rain
Thu
29°C
24°C
98% rain
In 74 days
Assumption Day
Sat, Aug 15, 2026
PublicIn 76 days
Mon, Aug 17, 2026
PublicIn 152 days
All Saints' Day
Sun, Nov 1, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Central African CFA Franc
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
06:15 AM
Sunset
06:24 PM
Day length
12h 8m
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 Libreville, 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
11:46:38 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
WAT
Africa/Libreville · UTC+01:00
Next holiday
Assumption Day
Saturday, August 15, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Libreville right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Libreville
Indexed airports
0
Curated airport references available for Gabon
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Libreville, Gabon.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 11:46 GMT+1
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Libreville 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
11:46 AM / +0h
Dubai
02:46 PM / +3h
Schedule risk
Assumption Day on Saturday, August 15, 2026
Travel cue
Owendo, 13 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:15 AM to 06:24 PM, with solar noon around 12:20 PM and total daylight of 12h 9m.
Mapped location
0.39°N, 9.45°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:46 AM / +0h
Good live-call window with Libreville right now.
New York
06:46 AM / -5h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:46 AM / -8h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:46 PM / +3h
Good live-call window with Libreville right now.
Singapore
06:46 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 Libreville.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Libreville 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 Libreville right now.
Check local interruptions
Assumption Day on Saturday, August 15, 2026. Nearest mapped context: Owendo, 13 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Libreville. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Libreville has no near-term DST change in view, but Assumption 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 Libreville.
Canonical route
/time/gabon/libreville/
Catalog identity
libreville-GA · GA · Africa
Coordinate cell
0.39°N, 9.45°E · lat 0.392 · lon 9.454 · cell 39:945
Population record
846,090 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Africa/Libreville · GMT+1 · UTC+01:00
January / July offsets
UTC+01:00 / UTC+01:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Owendo, Gabon · 13 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 5,637 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Libreville
Zone peer roster
Port-Gentil, Gabon · Franceville, Gabon · Owendo, Gabon
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Libreville: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Libreville is the libreville-GA record in Gabon: country slug gabon, city slug libreville, ISO GA, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Libreville.
0.39°N, 9.45°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 0 and longitude band 9; exact decimal pair 0.39241, 9.45356.
Gabon: official name Gabonese Republic; capital Libreville; region Africa; subregion Middle Africa; country population 2,469,296; area 267,668 km²; languages French; currencies XAF Central African CFA franc. This is the country layer behind the Libreville clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Gabon: Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic, is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo to the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west. It has an area of 270,000 square kilometres (100,000 sq mi) and a population of 2.3 million people. There are coastal plains, mountains, and a savanna in the east. Libreville is the country's capital and largest city. Source: Wikipedia.
Owendo [owendo-GA, GA, Africa/Libreville, 13 km]; Port-Gentil [port-gentil-GA, GA, Africa/Libreville, 144 km]; Bata [bata-GQ, GQ, Africa/Malabo, 167 km]; Ebebiyin [ebebiyin-GQ, GQ, Africa/Malabo, 286 km]; São Tomé [sao-tome-ST, ST, Africa/Sao_Tome, 303 km]; Malabo [malabo-GQ, GQ, Africa/Malabo, 381 km]; Douala [douala-CM, CM, Africa/Douala, 407 km]; Yaoundé [yaounde-CM, CM, Africa/Douala, 449 km]
Libreville is part of this indexed country cluster: Libreville [libreville-GA, Africa/Libreville, pop 846,090]; Port-Gentil [port-gentil-GA, Africa/Libreville, pop 164,018]; Franceville [franceville-GA, Africa/Libreville, pop 132,895]; Owendo [owendo-GA, Africa/Libreville, pop 95,313].
Dubai 5,637 km; London 5,754 km; São Paulo 6,607 km; New York 9,428 km; Singapore 10,492 km; Los Angeles 13,364 km; Tokyo 13,494 km; Sydney 14,565 km
Libreville has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Gabon.
Libreville renders Jun 2, 2026 · 11:46 GMT+1; GMT+1 at UTC+01:00; January UTC+01:00; July UTC+01:00; next holiday Assumption Day on 2026-08-15.
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 Libreville.
Libreville is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained Gabon city pages. The route is /time/gabon/libreville/ and the city id is libreville-GA.
Libreville has 14 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.
Libreville is pinned at 0.39°N, 9.45°E; Owendo (13 km); Dubai (5,637 km).
Africa/Libreville resolves to stable UTC+01:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Gabon.
Libreville has no direct nearby-airport handoff · Assumption Day (Saturday, August 15, 2026) · 0 country airport references · 11 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Libreville 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.
Libreville: Libreville is the capital and largest city of Gabon, located on the Gabon Estuary. Libreville occupies 65 square kilometres (25 sq mi) of the northwestern province of Estuaire. Libreville is also a port on the Gabon Estuary, near the Gulf of Guinea. As of the 2013 census, its population was 703,904.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+01:00) is constant year-round.
Libreville 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.
Geographically at longitude 9.45°, Libreville's mean solar noon falls about 22 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.
Libreville sits at 0.39°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Libreville sits at 0.39°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
Jun 4 (12h 9m)
Shortest day
Jan 1 (12h 6m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 3m
See the full daylight curve for Libreville at /sun/libreville/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Libreville local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Libreville |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Public holidays in 2026
11
Capital status
National capital of Gabon
Libreville is the capital and largest city of Gabon, with a population approaching 850,000 in the city proper and roughly a third of the national population in its metropolitan area. It observes West Africa Time (WAT, UTC+1) year-round on the Africa/Libreville zone; Gabon adopted the offset in 1912 and does not observe daylight saving. The city sits on the north shore of the Gabon Estuary, where the Komo River meets the Gulf of Guinea, and was founded in 1849 as a refuge for Africans freed from the Brazilian slave ship Elizia, taking its name from the French for 'free town'. Today it is Gabon's chief administrative, financial and educational hub, anchored by oil revenues, the port of Owendo, the Trans-Gabon Railway terminus and landmarks such as the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-23 (research).
Reference fields include Libreville's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 11:46:38 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Libreville (UTC+01:00, WAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:15 AM to 06:24 PM
Day length 12h 9m · Solar noon 12:20 PM
Next country holiday
Assumption Day
Saturday, August 15, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Libreville local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
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161 days to go
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187 days to go
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8 days to go
Population
846.1K
Coordinates
0.39, 9.45
Timezone
Africa/Libreville
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Libreville
Languages
French
Currency
XAF (Fr)
Country area
267,668 km²
Libreville, Gabon (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Libreville (WAT, UTC+01:00); population ~846.1K.
Coordinates: 0.39°N, 9.45°E. Equatorial Hemisphere deep tropics, ~44 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:15 AM and sets around 06:24 PM in Libreville — about 12h 9m of daylight. Gabon stays on standard time here, so UTC+01:00 is stable through the year.
Owendo (13 km from Libreville) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Gabon.
Next national holiday: Assumption Day, 2026-08-15.
Libreville is indexed as a Africa city in the GA country record, using Africa/Libreville as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/gabon/libreville/.
Location context: 0.39°N, 9.45°E; population 846,090; nearest indexed city Owendo is about 13 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 5,637 km away.
Country planning context: capital Libreville; subregion Middle Africa; languages French; currency XAF (Fr); area 267,668 km²; 0 curated airport references; next holiday Assumption Day on 2026-08-15.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+01:00) is constant year-round.
Libreville 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.
Geographically at longitude 9.45°, Libreville's mean solar noon falls about 22 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.
Libreville sits at 0.39°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Sizeable city with about 846 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Libreville: Port-Gentil (same time), 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.
gabon
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
WAT
IANA Zone
Africa/Libreville
UTC Offset
UTC+01:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+01:00
Algeria, Tunisia, Isle of Man, Ireland, United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, Central African Republic
Other cities in this timezone
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 Libreville.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Libreville: closest hubs Dubai (~5,637 km), London (~5,754 km), São Paulo (~6,607 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~14,565 km).
Libreville sits inside Gabon — the Middle Africa subregion, capital Libreville, languages French, currency XAF (Fr).
Closest indexed cities to Libreville: Owendo (13 km), Port-Gentil (144 km), Bata (167 km), Ebebiyin (286 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Libreville: Assumption Day, Independence Day, All Saints' Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Gabon.
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Libreville, 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 | +0h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:46 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:46 AM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:46 PM | +3h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:46 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:46 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:46 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:46 AM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
Owendo
Gabon
Approx. 13 km away
Port-Gentil
Gabon
Approx. 144 km away
Bata
Equatorial Guinea
Approx. 167 km away
Ebebiyin
Equatorial Guinea
Approx. 286 km away
São Tomé
São Tomé & Príncipe
Approx. 303 km away
Malabo
Equatorial Guinea
Approx. 381 km away
Douala
Cameroon
Approx. 407 km away
Yaoundé
Cameroon
Approx. 449 km away
Libreville is in the Africa/Libreville timezone (WAT), with a UTC offset of +01:00.
Libreville 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 Libreville is UTC+01:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Libreville, 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 · 11:46 GMT+1. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Libreville sits at 0.39°N, 9.45°E in Gabon, with about 846.1K residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Libreville is Dubai, about 5,637 km away as the crow flies.
Owendo is the closest indexed city, roughly 13 km from Libreville.
Assumption Day is the next upcoming holiday in Gabon, on Saturday, August 15, 2026.
Libreville uses Central African CFA franc (XAF, symbol Fr) as the local currency of Gabon.
The longest day of 2026 in Libreville falls on Jun 4 with about 12h 9m of daylight. The shortest is Jan 1 with 12h 6m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
In Libreville 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.