Indexed entity
Lilongwe is the lilongwe-MW record in Malawi: country slug malawi, city slug lilongwe, ISO MW, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Blantyre.
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Live local time
Lilongwe, Malawi
12:46:22 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Blantyre
Quick answer
It is currently 12:46:22 PM (CAT, UTC+02:00) in Lilongwe, Malawi — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
16°C
Partly cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
25°C
15°C
Wed
26°C
14°C
Thu
25°C
13°C
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
MWK
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
06:02 AM
Sunset
05:23 PM
Day length
11h 21m
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 Lilongwe, 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
12:46:22 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CAT
Africa/Blantyre · 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 Lilongwe right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Lilongwe
Indexed airports
0
Curated airport references available for Malawi
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Lilongwe, Malawi.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:46 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Lilongwe 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
Chipata, 128 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:02 AM to 05:23 PM, with solar noon around 11:43 AM and total daylight of 11h 21m.
Mapped location
13.97°S, 33.79°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 Lilongwe 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 Lilongwe 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 Lilongwe.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Blantyre 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 Lilongwe right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest mapped context: Chipata, 128 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Blantyre. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Lilongwe 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 Lilongwe.
Canonical route
/time/malawi/lilongwe/
Catalog identity
lilongwe-MW · MW · Africa
Coordinate cell
13.97°S, 33.79°E · lat -13.967 · lon 33.787 · cell -1397:3379
Population record
1,115,815 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Africa/Blantyre · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Chipata, Zambia · 128 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 4,939 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Lilongwe
Zone peer roster
Blantyre, Malawi · Mzuzu, Malawi · Zomba, Malawi
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Lilongwe: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Lilongwe is the lilongwe-MW record in Malawi: country slug malawi, city slug lilongwe, ISO MW, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Blantyre.
13.97°S, 33.79°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -14 and longitude band 33; exact decimal pair -13.96692, 33.78725.
Malawi: official name Republic of Malawi; capital Lilongwe; region Africa; subregion Eastern Africa; country population 20,734,262; area 118,484 km²; languages English, Chewa; currencies MWK Malawian kwacha. This is the country layer behind the Lilongwe clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Malawi: Malawi, officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeast Africa. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast, and Mozambique to the east, south, and southwest. Malawi spans over 118,484 km2 (45,747 sq mi) and has a population of 22,224,282. Lilongwe is its capital and largest city. Source: Wikipedia.
Chipata [chipata-ZM, ZM, Africa/Lusaka, 128 km]; Zomba [zomba-MW, MW, Africa/Blantyre, 228 km]; Blantyre [blantyre-MW, MW, Africa/Blantyre, 241 km]; Mzuzu [mzuzu-MW, MW, Africa/Blantyre, 279 km]; Harare [harare-ZW, ZW, Africa/Harare, 519 km]; Chitungwiza [chitungwiza-ZW, ZW, Africa/Harare, 535 km]; Ndola [ndola-ZM, ZM, Africa/Lusaka, 568 km]; Mutare [mutare-ZW, ZW, Africa/Harare, 569 km]
Lilongwe is part of this indexed country cluster: Lilongwe [lilongwe-MW, Africa/Blantyre, pop 1,115,815]; Blantyre [blantyre-MW, Africa/Blantyre, pop 902,588]; Mzuzu [mzuzu-MW, Africa/Blantyre, pop 249,564]; Zomba [zomba-MW, Africa/Blantyre, pop 118,440].
Dubai 4,939 km; Singapore 7,895 km; London 7,984 km; São Paulo 8,434 km; Sydney 11,529 km; Tokyo 12,328 km; New York 12,506 km; Los Angeles 16,424 km
Lilongwe has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Malawi.
Lilongwe 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 keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Lilongwe.
Lilongwe is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained Malawi city pages. The route is /time/malawi/lilongwe/ and the city id is lilongwe-MW.
Lilongwe 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.
Lilongwe is pinned at 13.97°S, 33.79°E; Chipata (128 km); Dubai (4,939 km).
Africa/Blantyre resolves to stable UTC+02:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Malawi.
Lilongwe 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.
Lilongwe 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.
Lilongwe: Lilongwe is the capital and largest city of Malawi. It has a population of 989,318 as of the 2018 Census, up from a population of 674,448 in 2008. In 2020, that figure was 1,122,000. The city is located in the central region of Malawi, in the district of the same name, near the borders with Mozambique and Zambia, and it is an important economic and transportation hub for central Malawi. It is named after the Lilongwe River.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Lilongwe 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 33.79°, Lilongwe's mean solar noon falls about 15 minutes before civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run earlier on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Lilongwe sits at 13.97°S, in the southern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Lilongwe sits at 13.97°S, in the southern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
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 14 (12h 57m)
Shortest day
Jun 13 (11h 18m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
1h 39m
See the full daylight curve for Lilongwe at /sun/lilongwe/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Lilongwe local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Lilongwe |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Malawi
Lilongwe is the capital and largest city of Malawi, with a population of about 1.1 million in the central region of the country. Central Africa Time (CAT, UTC+2) is fixed year-round, with no daylight saving. Lilongwe became the national capital in 1975, when the seat of government was transferred from Zomba, and the city is divided between an Old Town of commerce and markets and a planned Capital City zone housing government ministries and the national parliament. As Malawi's administrative and political centre, Lilongwe serves a country whose economy is heavily based on agriculture, particularly tobacco, which is traded through the city's auction floors.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Lilongwe's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:46:22 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Lilongwe (UTC+02:00, CAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:02 AM to 05:23 PM
Day length 11h 21m · Solar noon 11:43 AM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Lilongwe local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
1.1M
Coordinates
-13.97, 33.79
Timezone
Africa/Blantyre
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Lilongwe
Languages
English, Chewa
Currency
MWK (MK)
Country area
118,484 km²
Lilongwe, Malawi (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Blantyre (CAT, UTC+02:00); population ~1.1M.
Coordinates: 13.97°S, 33.79°E. Southern Hemisphere tropics, ~1550 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:02 AM and sets around 05:23 PM in Lilongwe — about 11h 21m of daylight. Malawi stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Chipata (128 km from Lilongwe) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Malawi.
Lilongwe is indexed as a Africa city in the MW country record, using Africa/Blantyre as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/malawi/lilongwe/.
Location context: 13.97°S, 33.79°E; population 1,115,815; nearest indexed city Chipata is about 128 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 4,939 km away.
Country planning context: capital Lilongwe; subregion Eastern Africa; languages English, Chewa; currency MWK (MK); area 118,484 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.
Lilongwe 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 33.79°, Lilongwe's mean solar noon falls about 15 minutes before civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run earlier on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Lilongwe sits at 13.97°S, in the southern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Major metropolitan area with around 1.1 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Lilongwe: Blantyre (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), Lima (−7h), Salvador (−5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
malawi
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
CAT
IANA Zone
Africa/Blantyre
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 Lilongwe.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Lilongwe: closest hubs Dubai (~4,939 km), Singapore (~7,895 km), London (~7,984 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~16,424 km).
Lilongwe sits inside Malawi — the Eastern Africa subregion, capital Lilongwe, languages English, Chewa, currency MWK (MK).
Closest indexed cities to Lilongwe: Chipata (128 km), Zomba (228 km), Blantyre (241 km), Mzuzu (279 km).
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Lilongwe, 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 |
Lilongwe is in the Africa/Blantyre timezone (CAT), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Lilongwe 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 Lilongwe is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Lilongwe, 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.
Lilongwe sits at 13.97°S, 33.79°E in Malawi, with about 1.1M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Lilongwe is Dubai, about 4,939 km away as the crow flies.
Chipata is the closest indexed city, roughly 128 km from Lilongwe.
Lilongwe uses Malawian kwacha (MWK, symbol MK) as the local currency of Malawi.
The longest day of 2026 in Lilongwe falls on Dec 14 with about 12h 57m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 13 with 11h 18m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
In Lilongwe 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.