Indexed entity
Windhoek is the windhoek-NA record in Namibia: country slug namibia, city slug windhoek, ISO NA, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Windhoek.
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Live local time
Windhoek, Namibia
12:01:01 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Windhoek
Quick answer
It is currently 12:01:01 PM (CAT, UTC+02:00) in Windhoek, Namibia — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
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3-day forecast
Tue
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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
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Today
Sunrise
07:24 AM
Sunset
06:14 PM
Day length
10h 50m
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 Windhoek, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:01 AM UTC.
Current local time
12:01:01 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 Windhoek right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Windhoek
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 Windhoek, Namibia.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:01 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Windhoek 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
11:01 AM / -1h
Dubai
02:01 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
Heroes' Day on Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Travel cue
Swakopmund, 263 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 07:24 AM to 06:14 PM, with solar noon around 12:49 PM and total daylight of 10h 50m.
Mapped location
22.56°S, 17.08°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:01 AM / -1h
Good live-call window with Windhoek right now.
New York
06:01 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:01 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:01 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Windhoek right now.
Singapore
06:01 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 Windhoek.
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 Windhoek right now.
Check local interruptions
Heroes' Day on Wednesday, August 26, 2026. Nearest mapped context: Swakopmund, 263 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
Windhoek 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 Windhoek.
Canonical route
/time/namibia/windhoek/
Catalog identity
windhoek-NA · NA · Africa
Coordinate cell
22.56°S, 17.08°E · lat -22.559 · lon 17.083 · cell -2256:1708
Population record
386,219 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Africa/Windhoek · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Swakopmund, Namibia · 263 km
Nearest world hub
São Paulo · 6,463 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Windhoek
Zone peer roster
Rundu, Namibia · Walvis Bay, Namibia · Swakopmund, Namibia
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Windhoek: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Windhoek is the windhoek-NA record in Namibia: country slug namibia, city slug windhoek, ISO NA, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Windhoek.
22.56°S, 17.08°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -23 and longitude band 17; exact decimal pair -22.55941, 17.08323.
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 Windhoek 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.
Swakopmund [swakopmund-NA, NA, Africa/Windhoek, 263 km]; Walvis Bay [walvis-bay-NA, NA, Africa/Windhoek, 268 km]; Rundu [rundu-NA, NA, Africa/Windhoek, 587 km]; Maun [maun-BW, BW, Africa/Gaborone, 716 km]; Mogoditshane [mogoditshane-BW, BW, Africa/Gaborone, 924 km]; Gaborone [gaborone-BW, BW, Africa/Gaborone, 929 km]; Lubango [lubango-AO, AO, Africa/Luanda, 930 km]; Francistown [francistown-BW, BW, Africa/Gaborone, 1087 km]
Windhoek 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 6,463 km; Dubai 6,720 km; London 8,406 km; Singapore 9,730 km; New York 11,707 km; Sydney 12,083 km; Tokyo 14,330 km; Los Angeles 15,497 km
Windhoek has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Namibia.
Windhoek renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:01 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 Windhoek.
Windhoek is a context-and-reference city; rank #1 of 4 retained Namibia city pages. The route is /time/namibia/windhoek/ and the city id is windhoek-NA.
Windhoek 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.
Windhoek is pinned at 22.56°S, 17.08°E; Swakopmund (263 km); São Paulo (6,463 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.
Windhoek has no direct nearby-airport handoff · Heroes' Day (Wednesday, August 26, 2026) · 0 country airport references · 13 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Windhoek 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.
Windhoek: Windhoek is the capital and largest city of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around 1,700 m (5,600 ft) above sea level in the country's geographical centre area. The population of Windhoek, which was 486,169 in 2023, is growing due to a migration from other regions in Namibia.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Windhoek 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 17.08°, Windhoek's mean solar noon falls about 52 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.
Windhoek sits at 22.56°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.
Windhoek sits at 22.56°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 16 (13h 31m)
Shortest day
Jun 15 (10h 45m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
2h 46m
See the full daylight curve for Windhoek at /sun/windhoek/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Windhoek local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Windhoek |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Capital status
National capital of Namibia
Reference fields include Windhoek's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:01:01 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Windhoek (UTC+02:00, CAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
07:24 AM to 06:14 PM
Day length 10h 50m · Solar noon 12:49 PM
Next country holiday
Heroes' Day
Wednesday, August 26, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Windhoek 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
386.2K
Coordinates
-22.56, 17.08
Timezone
Africa/Windhoek
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Windhoek
Languages
Afrikaans, German
Currency
NAD ($), ZAR (R)
Country area
825,615 km²
Windhoek, Namibia (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Windhoek (CAT, UTC+02:00); population ~386.2K.
Coordinates: 22.56°S, 17.08°E. Southern Hemisphere tropics, ~2504 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 07:24 AM and sets around 06:14 PM in Windhoek — about 10h 50m of daylight. Namibia observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Swakopmund (263 km from Windhoek) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Namibia.
Next national holiday: Heroes' Day, 2026-08-26.
Windhoek is indexed as a Africa city in the NA country record, using Africa/Windhoek as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/namibia/windhoek/.
Location context: 22.56°S, 17.08°E; population 386,219; nearest indexed city Swakopmund is about 263 km away; closest reference hub is São Paulo, about 6,463 km away.
Country planning context: capital Windhoek; subregion Southern Africa; languages Afrikaans, German, English, Herero; currency NAD ($), 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.
Windhoek 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 17.08°, Windhoek's mean solar noon falls about 52 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.
Windhoek sits at 22.56°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 386 thousand residents — busy enough to keep regular international business hours, small enough to retain a regional character. (Windhoek city-proper figure.)
Related clock anchors for Windhoek: Rundu (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 Windhoek.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Windhoek: closest hubs São Paulo (~6,463 km), Dubai (~6,720 km), London (~8,406 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~15,497 km).
Windhoek sits inside Namibia — the Southern Africa subregion, capital Windhoek, languages Afrikaans, German, English, currency NAD ($), ZAR (R).
Closest indexed cities to Windhoek: Swakopmund (263 km), Walvis Bay (268 km), Rundu (587 km), Maun (716 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Windhoek: 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 Windhoek, 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 | 11:01 AM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:01 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:01 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:01 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:01 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:01 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:01 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:01 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Windhoek is in the Africa/Windhoek timezone (CAT), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Windhoek 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 Windhoek is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Windhoek, 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 · 12:01 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Windhoek sits at 22.56°S, 17.08°E in Namibia, with about 386.2K residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Windhoek is São Paulo, about 6,463 km away as the crow flies.
Swakopmund is the closest indexed city, roughly 263 km from Windhoek.
Heroes' Day is the next upcoming holiday in Namibia, on Wednesday, August 26, 2026.
Windhoek uses Namibian dollar (NAD, symbol $) as the local currency of Namibia.
The longest day of 2026 in Windhoek falls on Dec 16 with about 13h 31m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 15 with 10h 45m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
In Windhoek 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.