Indexed entity
Maseru is the maseru-LS record in Lesotho: country slug lesotho, city slug maseru, ISO LS, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Maseru.
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Live local time
Maseru, Lesotho
12:42:27 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Maseru
Quick answer
It is currently 12:42:27 PM (SAST, UTC+02:00) in Maseru, Lesotho — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
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3-day forecast
Tue
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Wed
19°C
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In 45 days
King Letsie III's Birthday
Fri, Jul 17, 2026
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Fri, Dec 25, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
LSL
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Conversion rates aren’t published for this currency by the ECB. The local code is shown for reference.
Today
Sunrise
06:56 AM
Sunset
05:19 PM
Day length
10h 22m
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 Maseru, 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
12:42:27 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 Maseru right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Maseru
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 Maseru, Lesotho.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:42 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Maseru 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
Mafeteng, 61 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:56 AM to 05:19 PM, with solar noon around 12:08 PM and total daylight of 10h 23m.
Mapped location
29.32°S, 27.48°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 Maseru 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 Maseru 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 Maseru.
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 Maseru right now.
Check local interruptions
King Letsie III's Birthday on Friday, July 17, 2026. Nearest mapped context: Mafeteng, 61 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
Maseru 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 Maseru.
Canonical route
/time/lesotho/maseru/
Catalog identity
maseru-LS · LS · Africa
Coordinate cell
29.32°S, 27.48°E · lat -29.317 · lon 27.483 · cell -2932:2748
Population record
359,753 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Africa/Maseru · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Mafeteng, Lesotho · 61 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 6,749 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Maseru
Zone peer roster
Maputsoe, Lesotho · Mohale's Hoek, Lesotho · Mafeteng, Lesotho
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Maseru: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Maseru is the maseru-LS record in Lesotho: country slug lesotho, city slug maseru, ISO LS, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Maseru.
29.32°S, 27.48°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -30 and longitude band 27; exact decimal pair -29.31667, 27.48333.
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 Maseru 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.
Mafeteng [mafeteng-LS, LS, Africa/Maseru, 61 km]; Maputsoe [maputsoe-LS, LS, Africa/Maseru, 63 km]; Mohale's Hoek [mohale-s-hoek-LS, LS, Africa/Maseru, 93 km]; Durban [durban-ZA, ZA, Africa/Johannesburg, 348 km]; Johannesburg [johannesburg-ZA, ZA, Africa/Johannesburg, 351 km]; Pretoria [pretoria-ZA, ZA, Africa/Johannesburg, 403 km]; Lobamba [lobamba-SZ, SZ, Africa/Mbabane, 484 km]; Mbabane [mbabane-SZ, SZ, Africa/Mbabane, 490 km]
Maseru 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 6,749 km; São Paulo 7,285 km; Singapore 8,761 km; London 9,384 km; Sydney 10,832 km; New York 12,989 km; Tokyo 13,739 km; Los Angeles 16,745 km
Maseru has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Lesotho.
Maseru 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 Maseru.
Maseru is a context-and-reference city; rank #1 of 4 retained Lesotho city pages. The route is /time/lesotho/maseru/ and the city id is maseru-LS.
Maseru 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.
Maseru is pinned at 29.32°S, 27.48°E; Mafeteng (61 km); Dubai (6,749 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.
Maseru 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.
Maseru 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.
Maseru: Maseru is the capital and largest city of Lesotho. It is also the capital of the Maseru District. Located on the Caledon River, Maseru lies directly on the Lesotho–South Africa border. Maseru had a population of 330,760 in the 2016 census. The city was established as a police camp and assigned as the capital after the country became a British protectorate in 1869. When the country achieved independence in 1966, Maseru retained its status as capital. The name of the city is a Sesotho word meaning "red sandstones".
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Maseru 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°, Maseru'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.
Maseru sits at 29.32°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 7 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 53 minutes on the June solstice.
Maseru sits at 29.32°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 7 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 53 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 16 (14h 1m)
Shortest day
Jun 15 (10h 16m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
3h 45m
See the full daylight curve for Maseru at /sun/maseru/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Maseru local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Maseru |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Capital status
National capital of Lesotho
Reference fields include Maseru's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:42:27 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Maseru (UTC+02:00, SAST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:56 AM to 05:19 PM
Day length 10h 23m · Solar noon 12:08 PM
Next country holiday
King Letsie III's Birthday
Friday, July 17, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Maseru 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
359.8K
Coordinates
-29.32, 27.48
Timezone
Africa/Maseru
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Maseru
Languages
English, Sotho
Currency
LSL (L), ZAR (R)
Country area
30,355 km²
Maseru, Lesotho (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Maseru (SAST, UTC+02:00); population ~359.8K.
Coordinates: 29.32°S, 27.48°E. Southern Hemisphere subtropics, ~3254 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:56 AM and sets around 05:19 PM in Maseru — about 10h 23m of daylight. Lesotho stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Mafeteng (61 km from Maseru) 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.
Maseru 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/maseru/.
Location context: 29.32°S, 27.48°E; population 359,753; nearest indexed city Mafeteng is about 61 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 6,749 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.
Maseru 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°, Maseru'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.
Maseru sits at 29.32°S in the southern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 10 hours 7 minutes on the December solstice and about 13 hours 53 minutes on the June solstice.
Mid-sized city with around 360 thousand residents — busy enough to keep regular international business hours, small enough to retain a regional character. (Maseru city-proper figure.)
Related clock anchors for Maseru: Maputsoe (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 Maseru.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Maseru: closest hubs Dubai (~6,749 km), São Paulo (~7,285 km), Singapore (~8,761 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~16,745 km).
Maseru sits inside Lesotho — the Southern Africa subregion, capital Maseru, languages English, Sotho, currency LSL (L), ZAR (R).
Closest indexed cities to Maseru: Mafeteng (61 km), Maputsoe (63 km), Mohale's Hoek (93 km), Durban (348 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Maseru: 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 Maseru, 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 |
Maseru is in the Africa/Maseru timezone (SAST), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Maseru 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 Maseru is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Maseru, 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.
Maseru sits at 29.32°S, 27.48°E in Lesotho, with about 359.8K residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Maseru is Dubai, about 6,749 km away as the crow flies.
Mafeteng is the closest indexed city, roughly 61 km from Maseru.
King Letsie III's Birthday is the next upcoming holiday in Lesotho, on Friday, July 17, 2026.
Maseru uses Lesotho loti (LSL, symbol L) as the local currency of Lesotho.
The longest day of 2026 in Maseru falls on Dec 16 with about 14h 1m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 15 with 10h 16m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
In Maseru 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.