Indexed entity
Mafeteng is the mafeteng-LS record in Lesotho: country slug lesotho, city slug mafeteng, ISO LS, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Maseru.
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Live local time
Mafeteng, Lesotho
12:42:33 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Maseru
Quick answer
It is currently 12:42:33 PM (SAST, UTC+02:00) in Mafeteng, Lesotho — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
7°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
18°C
8°C
Wed
19°C
9°C
Thu
19°C
9°C
In 45 days
King Letsie III's Birthday
Fri, Jul 17, 2026
PublicIn 124 days
Sun, Oct 4, 2026
PublicIn 206 days
Fri, Dec 25, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
LSL
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
06:59 AM
Sunset
05:19 PM
Day length
10h 20m
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 Mafeteng, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:42 AM UTC.
Current local time
12:42:33 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
SAST
Africa/Maseru · UTC+02:00
Next holiday
King Letsie III's Birthday
Friday, July 17, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Mafeteng right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Mafeteng
Indexed airports
0
Curated airport references available for Lesotho
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Mafeteng, Lesotho.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:42 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Mafeteng 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
11:42 AM / -1h
Dubai
02:42 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
King Letsie III's Birthday on Friday, July 17, 2026
Travel cue
Mohale's Hoek, 43 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:59 AM to 05:19 PM, with solar noon around 12:09 PM and total daylight of 10h 20m.
Mapped location
29.82°S, 27.24°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:42 AM / -1h
Good live-call window with Mafeteng right now.
New York
06:42 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:42 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:42 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Mafeteng right now.
Singapore
06:42 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 Mafeteng.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Maseru 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 Mafeteng right now.
Check local interruptions
King Letsie III's Birthday on Friday, July 17, 2026. Nearest mapped context: Mohale's Hoek, 43 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Maseru. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Mafeteng has no near-term DST change in view, but King Letsie III's Birthday 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 Mafeteng.
Canonical route
/time/lesotho/mafeteng/
Catalog identity
mafeteng-LS · LS · Africa
Coordinate cell
29.82°S, 27.24°E · lat -29.823 · lon 27.237 · cell -2982:2724
Population record
45,287 residents · country rank 4
Zone snapshot
Africa/Maseru · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Mohale's Hoek, Lesotho · 43 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 6,810 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Mafeteng
Zone peer roster
Maseru, Lesotho · Maputsoe, Lesotho · Mohale's Hoek, Lesotho
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Mafeteng: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Mafeteng is the mafeteng-LS record in Lesotho: country slug lesotho, city slug mafeteng, ISO LS, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Maseru.
29.82°S, 27.24°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -30 and longitude band 27; exact decimal pair -29.82299, 27.23744.
Lesotho: official name Kingdom of Lesotho; capital Maseru; region Africa; subregion Southern Africa; country population 2,116,427; area 30,355 km²; languages English, Sotho; currencies LSL Lesotho loti, ZAR South African rand. This is the country layer behind the Mafeteng clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Lesotho: Lesotho, officially the Kingdom of Lesotho and formerly known as Basutoland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Surrounded by South Africa, it is the largest of the only three sovereign enclaves. Lesotho is located in the Maloti Mountains, with the highest peak in southern Africa. It has an area of over 30,000 km2 (11,600 mi2), with a population of about 2.3 million. Its capital and largest city is Maseru. Source: Wikipedia.
Mohale's Hoek [mohale-s-hoek-LS, LS, Africa/Maseru, 43 km]; Maseru [maseru-LS, LS, Africa/Maseru, 61 km]; Maputsoe [maputsoe-LS, LS, Africa/Maseru, 122 km]; Durban [durban-ZA, ZA, Africa/Johannesburg, 366 km]; Johannesburg [johannesburg-ZA, ZA, Africa/Johannesburg, 410 km]; Pretoria [pretoria-ZA, ZA, Africa/Johannesburg, 463 km]; Lobamba [lobamba-SZ, SZ, Africa/Mbabane, 539 km]; Mbabane [mbabane-SZ, SZ, Africa/Mbabane, 546 km]
Mafeteng is part of this indexed country cluster: Maseru [maseru-LS, Africa/Maseru, pop 359,753]; Maputsoe [maputsoe-LS, Africa/Maseru, pop 61,916]; Mohale's Hoek [mohale-s-hoek-LS, Africa/Maseru, pop 46,593]; Mafeteng [mafeteng-LS, Africa/Maseru, pop 45,287].
Dubai 6,810 km; São Paulo 7,249 km; Singapore 8,793 km; London 9,431 km; Sydney 10,808 km; New York 13,000 km; Tokyo 13,785 km; Los Angeles 16,740 km
Mafeteng has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Lesotho.
Mafeteng renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:42 GMT+2; GMT+2 at UTC+02:00; January UTC+02:00; July UTC+02:00; next holiday King Letsie III's Birthday on 2026-07-17.
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 Mafeteng.
Mafeteng is a context-and-reference city; rank #4 of 4 retained Lesotho city pages. The route is /time/lesotho/mafeteng/ and the city id is mafeteng-LS.
Mafeteng has 13 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.
Mafeteng is pinned at 29.82°S, 27.24°E; Mohale's Hoek (43 km); Dubai (6,810 km).
Africa/Maseru resolves to stable UTC+02:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Lesotho.
Mafeteng has no direct nearby-airport handoff · King Letsie III's Birthday (Friday, July 17, 2026) · 0 country airport references · 11 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Mafeteng 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.
Mafeteng: Mafeteng is a city in Lesotho, and the Camptown of the district of Mafeteng. It is located about 76 kilometres south of the country's capital, Maseru and has a population of approximately 61,000. The South African border town to Mafeteng is Wepener.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Mafeteng 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 27.24°, Mafeteng's mean solar noon falls about 11 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.
Mafeteng sits at 29.82°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 5 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 55 minutes on the June solstice.
Mafeteng sits at 29.82°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 5 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 55 minutes on the June solstice.
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 18 (14h 4m)
Shortest day
Jun 14 (10h 14m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
3h 50m
See the full daylight curve for Mafeteng at /sun/mafeteng/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Mafeteng local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Mafeteng |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Public holidays in 2026
11
Reference fields include Mafeteng's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:42:33 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Mafeteng (UTC+02:00, SAST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:59 AM to 05:19 PM
Day length 10h 20m · Solar noon 12:09 PM
Next country holiday
King Letsie III's Birthday
Friday, July 17, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Mafeteng local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
keynoteSunday, December 6, 2026
187 days to go
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
Population
45.3K
Coordinates
-29.82, 27.24
Timezone
Africa/Maseru
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Maseru
Languages
English, Sotho
Currency
LSL (L), ZAR (R)
Country area
30,355 km²
Mafeteng, Lesotho (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Maseru (SAST, UTC+02:00); population ~45.3K.
Coordinates: 29.82°S, 27.24°E. Southern Hemisphere subtropics, ~3310 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:59 AM and sets around 05:19 PM in Mafeteng — about 10h 20m of daylight. Lesotho stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Mohale's Hoek (43 km from Mafeteng) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Lesotho.
Next national holiday: King Letsie III's Birthday, 2026-07-17.
Mafeteng is indexed as a Africa city in the LS country record, using Africa/Maseru as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/lesotho/mafeteng/.
Location context: 29.82°S, 27.24°E; population 45,287; nearest indexed city Mohale's Hoek is about 43 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 6,810 km away.
Country planning context: capital Maseru; subregion Southern Africa; languages English, Sotho; currency LSL (L), ZAR (R); area 30,355 km²; 0 curated airport references; next holiday King Letsie III's Birthday on 2026-07-17.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Mafeteng 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 27.24°, Mafeteng's mean solar noon falls about 11 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.
Mafeteng sits at 29.82°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 5 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 55 minutes on the June solstice.
Related clock anchors for Mafeteng: Maseru (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), Johannesburg (same time), Sydney (+8h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
lesotho
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
SAST
IANA Zone
Africa/Maseru
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 Mafeteng.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Mafeteng: closest hubs Dubai (~6,810 km), São Paulo (~7,249 km), Singapore (~8,793 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~16,740 km).
Mafeteng sits inside Lesotho — the Southern Africa subregion, capital Maseru, languages English, Sotho, currency LSL (L), ZAR (R).
Closest indexed cities to Mafeteng: Mohale's Hoek (43 km), Maseru (61 km), Maputsoe (122 km), Durban (366 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Mafeteng: King Letsie III's Birthday, Independence Day, Christmas Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Lesotho.
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Mafeteng, 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 | 11:42 AM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:42 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:42 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:42 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:42 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:42 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:42 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:42 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Mafeteng is in the Africa/Maseru timezone (SAST), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Mafeteng 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 Mafeteng is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Mafeteng, 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 · 12:42 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Mafeteng sits at 29.82°S, 27.24°E in Lesotho, with about 45.3K residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Mafeteng is Dubai, about 6,810 km away as the crow flies.
Mohale's Hoek is the closest indexed city, roughly 43 km from Mafeteng.
King Letsie III's Birthday is the next upcoming holiday in Lesotho, on Friday, July 17, 2026.
Mafeteng uses Lesotho loti (LSL, symbol L) as the local currency of Lesotho.
The longest day of 2026 in Mafeteng falls on Dec 18 with about 14h 4m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 14 with 10h 14m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
In Mafeteng 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.