Indexed entity
Swakopmund is the swakopmund-NA record in Namibia: country slug namibia, city slug swakopmund, ISO NA, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Windhoek.
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Live local time
Swakopmund, Namibia
12:43:35 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Windhoek
Quick answer
It is currently 12:43:35 PM (CAT, UTC+02:00) in Swakopmund, Namibia — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
14°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
20°C
12°C
Wed
22°C
12°C
Thu
25°C
12°C
In 85 days
Heroes' Day
Wed, Aug 26, 2026
PublicIn 191 days
Human Rights Day
Thu, Dec 10, 2026
PublicIn 206 days
Fri, Dec 25, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
NAD
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
07:35 AM
Sunset
06:24 PM
Day length
10h 49m
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 Swakopmund, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:43 AM UTC.
Current local time
12:43:35 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CAT
Africa/Windhoek · UTC+02:00
Next holiday
Heroes' Day
Wednesday, August 26, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Swakopmund right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Swakopmund
Indexed airports
0
Curated airport references available for Namibia
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Swakopmund, Namibia.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:43 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Swakopmund 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
11:43 AM / -1h
Dubai
02:43 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
Heroes' Day on Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Travel cue
Walvis Bay, 31 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 07:35 AM to 06:24 PM, with solar noon around 01:00 PM and total daylight of 10h 49m.
Mapped location
22.68°S, 14.53°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:43 AM / -1h
Good live-call window with Swakopmund right now.
New York
06:43 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:43 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:43 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Swakopmund right now.
Singapore
06:43 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 Swakopmund.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Windhoek 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 Swakopmund right now.
Check local interruptions
Heroes' Day on Wednesday, August 26, 2026. Nearest mapped context: Walvis Bay, 31 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Windhoek. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Swakopmund has no near-term DST change in view, but Heroes' 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 Swakopmund.
Canonical route
/time/namibia/swakopmund/
Catalog identity
swakopmund-NA · NA · Africa
Coordinate cell
22.68°S, 14.53°E · lat -22.678 · lon 14.527 · cell -2268:1453
Population record
53,009 residents · country rank 4
Zone snapshot
Africa/Windhoek · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Walvis Bay, Namibia · 31 km
Nearest world hub
São Paulo · 6,205 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Swakopmund
Zone peer roster
Windhoek, Namibia · Rundu, Namibia · Walvis Bay, Namibia
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Swakopmund: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Swakopmund is the swakopmund-NA record in Namibia: country slug namibia, city slug swakopmund, ISO NA, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Windhoek.
22.68°S, 14.53°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -23 and longitude band 14; exact decimal pair -22.67842, 14.52663.
Namibia: official name Republic of Namibia; capital Windhoek; region Africa; subregion Southern Africa; country population 3,022,401; area 825,615 km²; languages Afrikaans, German, English, Herero, Khoekhoe, Kwangali; currencies NAD Namibian dollar, ZAR South African rand. This is the country layer behind the Swakopmund clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Namibia: Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the northeast, approximating a quadripoint, Zimbabwe lies less than 200 metres away along the Zambezi river near Kazungula, Zambia. Namibia's capital and largest city is Windhoek. Source: Wikipedia.
Walvis Bay [walvis-bay-NA, NA, Africa/Windhoek, 31 km]; Windhoek [windhoek-NA, NA, Africa/Windhoek, 263 km]; Rundu [rundu-NA, NA, Africa/Windhoek, 761 km]; Lubango [lubango-AO, AO, Africa/Luanda, 870 km]; Maun [maun-BW, BW, Africa/Gaborone, 968 km]; Huambo [huambo-AO, AO, Africa/Luanda, 1109 km]; Benguela [benguela-AO, AO, Africa/Luanda, 1130 km]; Mogoditshane [mogoditshane-BW, BW, Africa/Gaborone, 1175 km]
Swakopmund is part of this indexed country cluster: Windhoek [windhoek-NA, Africa/Windhoek, pop 386,219]; Rundu [rundu-NA, Africa/Windhoek, pop 75,180]; Walvis Bay [walvis-bay-NA, Africa/Windhoek, pop 73,598]; Swakopmund [swakopmund-NA, Africa/Windhoek, pop 53,009].
São Paulo 6,205 km; Dubai 6,902 km; London 8,372 km; Singapore 9,993 km; New York 11,510 km; Sydney 12,235 km; Tokyo 14,567 km; Los Angeles 15,268 km
Swakopmund has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Namibia.
Swakopmund renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:43 GMT+2; GMT+2 at UTC+02:00; January UTC+02:00; July UTC+02:00; next holiday Heroes' Day on 2026-08-26.
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 Swakopmund.
Swakopmund is a context-and-reference city; rank #4 of 4 retained Namibia city pages. The route is /time/namibia/swakopmund/ and the city id is swakopmund-NA.
Swakopmund 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.
Swakopmund is pinned at 22.68°S, 14.53°E; Walvis Bay (31 km); São Paulo (6,205 km).
Africa/Windhoek resolves to stable UTC+02:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Namibia.
Swakopmund has no direct nearby-airport handoff · Heroes' Day (Wednesday, August 26, 2026) · 0 country airport references · 13 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Swakopmund 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.
Swakopmund: Swakopmund is a city on the coast of western Namibia, 352 km (219 mi) west of the Namibian capital Windhoek via the B2 main road. It is the capital of the Erongo administrative district. It has 25,047 inhabitants.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Swakopmund 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 14.53°, Swakopmund's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 2 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.
Swakopmund sits at 22.68°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.
Swakopmund sits at 22.68°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 21 (13h 32m)
Shortest day
Jun 21 (10h 44m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
2h 48m
See the full daylight curve for Swakopmund at /sun/swakopmund/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Swakopmund local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Swakopmund |
|---|---|---|
| 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
13
Reference fields include Swakopmund's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:43:35 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Swakopmund (UTC+02:00, CAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
07:35 AM to 06:24 PM
Day length 10h 49m · Solar noon 01:00 PM
Next country holiday
Heroes' Day
Wednesday, August 26, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Swakopmund local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
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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
Population
53K
Coordinates
-22.68, 14.53
Timezone
Africa/Windhoek
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Windhoek
Languages
Afrikaans, German
Currency
NAD ($), ZAR (R)
Country area
825,615 km²
Swakopmund, Namibia (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Windhoek (CAT, UTC+02:00); population ~53K.
Coordinates: 22.68°S, 14.53°E. Southern Hemisphere tropics, ~2517 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 07:35 AM and sets around 06:24 PM in Swakopmund — about 10h 49m of daylight. Namibia observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Walvis Bay (31 km from Swakopmund) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Namibia.
Next national holiday: Heroes' Day, 2026-08-26.
Swakopmund is indexed as a Africa city in the NA country record, using Africa/Windhoek as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/namibia/swakopmund/.
Location context: 22.68°S, 14.53°E; population 53,009; nearest indexed city Walvis Bay is about 31 km away; closest reference hub is São Paulo, about 6,205 km away.
Country planning context: capital Windhoek; subregion Southern Africa; languages Afrikaans, German, English, Herero; currency NAD ($), ZAR (R); area 825,615 km²; 0 curated airport references; next holiday Heroes' Day on 2026-08-26.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Swakopmund 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 14.53°, Swakopmund's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 2 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.
Swakopmund sits at 22.68°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.
Related clock anchors for Swakopmund: Windhoek (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), São Paulo (−5h), Johannesburg (same time).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
namibia
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
CAT
IANA Zone
Africa/Windhoek
UTC Offset
UTC+02:00
DST Status
Observing DST
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 Swakopmund.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Swakopmund: closest hubs São Paulo (~6,205 km), Dubai (~6,902 km), London (~8,372 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~15,268 km).
Swakopmund sits inside Namibia — the Southern Africa subregion, capital Windhoek, languages Afrikaans, German, English, currency NAD ($), ZAR (R).
Closest indexed cities to Swakopmund: Walvis Bay (31 km), Windhoek (263 km), Rundu (761 km), Lubango (870 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Swakopmund: Heroes' Day, Human Rights Day, Christmas Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Namibia.
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Swakopmund, 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 | 11:43 AM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:43 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:43 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:43 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:43 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:43 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:43 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:43 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Swakopmund is in the Africa/Windhoek timezone (CAT), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Swakopmund 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 Swakopmund is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Swakopmund, 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 · 12:43 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Swakopmund sits at 22.68°S, 14.53°E in Namibia, with about 53K residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Swakopmund is São Paulo, about 6,205 km away as the crow flies.
Walvis Bay is the closest indexed city, roughly 31 km from Swakopmund.
Heroes' Day is the next upcoming holiday in Namibia, on Wednesday, August 26, 2026.
Swakopmund uses Namibian dollar (NAD, symbol $) as the local currency of Namibia.
The longest day of 2026 in Swakopmund falls on Dec 21 with about 13h 32m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 21 with 10h 44m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
In Swakopmund 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.