Indexed entity
Zomba is the zomba-MW record in Malawi: country slug malawi, city slug zomba, ISO MW, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Blantyre.
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Live local time
Zomba, Malawi
12:41:45 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Blantyre
Quick answer
It is currently 12:41:45 PM (CAT, UTC+02:00) in Zomba, Malawi — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
16°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
23°C
15°C
Wed
22°C
15°C
Thu
23°C
14°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
05:58 AM
Sunset
05:14 PM
Day length
11h 16m
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 Zomba, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:41 AM UTC.
Current local time
12:41:45 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 Zomba right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Zomba
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 Zomba, Malawi.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:41 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Zomba 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
11:41 AM / -1h
Dubai
02:41 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
Blantyre, 55 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:58 AM to 05:14 PM, with solar noon around 11:36 AM and total daylight of 11h 16m.
Mapped location
15.39°S, 35.32°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:41 AM / -1h
Good live-call window with Zomba right now.
New York
06:41 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:41 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:41 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Zomba right now.
Singapore
06:41 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 Zomba.
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 Zomba right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest mapped context: Blantyre, 55 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
Zomba 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 Zomba.
Canonical route
/time/malawi/zomba/
Catalog identity
zomba-MW · MW · Africa
Coordinate cell
15.39°S, 35.32°E · lat -15.386 · lon 35.319 · cell -1539:3532
Population record
118,440 residents · country rank 4
Zone snapshot
Africa/Blantyre · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Blantyre, Malawi · 55 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 5,005 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Zomba
Zone peer roster
Lilongwe, Malawi · Blantyre, Malawi · Mzuzu, Malawi
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Zomba: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Zomba is the zomba-MW record in Malawi: country slug malawi, city slug zomba, ISO MW, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Blantyre.
15.39°S, 35.32°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -16 and longitude band 35; exact decimal pair -15.38596, 35.31880.
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 Zomba 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.
Blantyre [blantyre-MW, MW, Africa/Blantyre, 55 km]; Lilongwe [lilongwe-MW, MW, Africa/Blantyre, 228 km]; Chipata [chipata-ZM, ZM, Africa/Lusaka, 347 km]; Nampula [nampula-MZ, MZ, Africa/Maputo, 425 km]; Mzuzu [mzuzu-MW, MW, Africa/Blantyre, 458 km]; Mutare [mutare-ZW, ZW, Africa/Harare, 488 km]; Beira [beira-MZ, MZ, Africa/Maputo, 498 km]; Harare [harare-ZW, ZW, Africa/Harare, 529 km]
Zomba 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 5,005 km; Singapore 7,750 km; London 8,191 km; São Paulo 8,531 km; Sydney 11,301 km; Tokyo 12,276 km; New York 12,733 km; Los Angeles 16,652 km
Zomba has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Malawi.
Zomba renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:41 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 Zomba.
Zomba is a context-and-reference city; rank #4 of 4 retained Malawi city pages. The route is /time/malawi/zomba/ and the city id is zomba-MW.
Zomba 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.
Zomba is pinned at 15.39°S, 35.32°E; Blantyre (55 km); Dubai (5,005 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.
Zomba 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.
Zomba 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.
Zomba, Malawi: Zomba is a city in southern Malawi, in the Shire Highlands. It is the former capital city of Malawi.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Zomba 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 35.32°, Zomba's mean solar noon falls about 21 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.
Zomba sits at 15.39°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.
Zomba sits at 15.39°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 13 (13h 2m)
Shortest day
Jun 12 (11h 13m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
1h 49m
See the full daylight curve for Zomba at /sun/zomba/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Zomba local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Zomba |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Reference fields include Zomba's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:41:45 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Zomba (UTC+02:00, CAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:58 AM to 05:14 PM
Day length 11h 16m · Solar noon 11:36 AM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Zomba local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
118.4K
Coordinates
-15.39, 35.32
Timezone
Africa/Blantyre
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Lilongwe
Languages
English, Chewa
Currency
MWK (MK)
Country area
118,484 km²
Zomba, Malawi (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Blantyre (CAT, UTC+02:00); population ~118.4K.
Coordinates: 15.39°S, 35.32°E. Southern Hemisphere tropics, ~1708 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:58 AM and sets around 05:14 PM in Zomba — about 11h 16m of daylight. Malawi stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Blantyre (55 km from Zomba) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Malawi.
Zomba 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/zomba/.
Location context: 15.39°S, 35.32°E; population 118,440; nearest indexed city Blantyre is about 55 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 5,005 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.
Zomba 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 35.32°, Zomba's mean solar noon falls about 21 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.
Zomba sits at 15.39°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.
Mid-sized city with around 118 thousand residents — busy enough to keep regular international business hours, small enough to retain a regional character. (Zomba city-proper figure.)
Related clock anchors for Zomba: Lilongwe (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), Lima (−7h), Belo Horizonte (−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 Zomba.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Zomba: closest hubs Dubai (~5,005 km), Singapore (~7,750 km), London (~8,191 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~16,652 km).
Zomba sits inside Malawi — the Eastern Africa subregion, capital Lilongwe, languages English, Chewa, currency MWK (MK).
Closest indexed cities to Zomba: Blantyre (55 km), Lilongwe (228 km), Chipata (347 km), Nampula (425 km).
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Zomba, 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 | 11:41 AM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:41 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:41 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:41 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:41 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:41 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:41 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:41 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Zomba is in the Africa/Blantyre timezone (CAT), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Zomba 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 Zomba is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Zomba, 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 · 12:41 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Zomba sits at 15.39°S, 35.32°E in Malawi, with about 118.4K residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Zomba is Dubai, about 5,005 km away as the crow flies.
Blantyre is the closest indexed city, roughly 55 km from Zomba.
Zomba uses Malawian kwacha (MWK, symbol MK) as the local currency of Malawi.
The longest day of 2026 in Zomba falls on Dec 13 with about 13h 2m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 12 with 11h 13m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
In Zomba 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.