Indexed entity
Pointe-Noire is the pointe-noire-CG record in Congo - Brazzaville: country slug republic-of-the-congo, city slug pointe-noire, ISO CG, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Brazzaville.
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Live local time
Pointe-Noire, Congo - Brazzaville
11:48:06 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Brazzaville
Quick answer
It is currently 11:48:06 AM (WAT, UTC+01:00) in Pointe-Noire, Congo - Brazzaville — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
23°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
27°C
22°C
27% rain
Wed
28°C
23°C
Thu
28°C
22°C
In 8 days
Fête de la Réconciliation (Reconciliation Day)
Wed, Jun 10, 2026
PublicIn 74 days
Sat, Aug 15, 2026
PublicIn 152 days
Toussaint (All Saints' Day)
Sun, Nov 1, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Central African CFA Franc
Live ECB rate not available for this currency.
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Today
Sunrise
06:14 AM
Sunset
06:06 PM
Day length
11h 52m
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 Pointe-Noire, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:48 AM UTC.
Current local time
11:48:06 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
WAT
Africa/Brazzaville · UTC+01:00
Next holiday
Reconciliation Day
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Pointe-Noire right now
Nearest airport
BZV
Maya-Maya International Airport · 380 km
Indexed airports
1
Curated airport references available for Congo - Brazzaville
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Pointe-Noire, Congo - Brazzaville.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 11:48 GMT+1
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Pointe-Noire is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+01:00
Zone label
GMT+1
London
11:48 AM / +0h
Dubai
02:48 PM / +3h
Schedule risk
Reconciliation Day on Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Travel cue
BZV Brazzaville, 380 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:14 AM to 06:06 PM, with solar noon around 12:10 PM and total daylight of 11h 52m.
Mapped location
4.78°S, 11.86°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:48 AM / +0h
Good live-call window with Pointe-Noire right now.
New York
06:48 AM / -5h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:48 AM / -8h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:48 PM / +3h
Good live-call window with Pointe-Noire right now.
Singapore
06:48 PM / +7h
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 Pointe-Noire.
BZV · Maya-Maya International Airport
Brazzaville
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Brazzaville for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+01:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+01:00.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Pointe-Noire right now.
Check local interruptions
Reconciliation Day on Wednesday, June 10, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: BZV Brazzaville, 380 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Brazzaville. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Pointe-Noire has no near-term DST change in view, but Reconciliation 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 Pointe-Noire.
Canonical route
/time/republic-of-the-congo/pointe-noire/
Catalog identity
pointe-noire-CG · CG · Africa
Coordinate cell
4.78°S, 11.86°E · lat -4.776 · lon 11.864 · cell -478:1186
Population record
1,032,000 residents · country rank 2
Zone snapshot
Africa/Brazzaville · GMT+1 · UTC+01:00
January / July offsets
UTC+01:00 / UTC+01:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Dolisie, Republic of the Congo · 110 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 5,750 km
Closest airport references
BZV Brazzaville 380 km
Zone peer roster
Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo · Dolisie, Republic of the Congo · Nkayi, Republic of the Congo
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Pointe-Noire: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Pointe-Noire is the pointe-noire-CG record in Congo - Brazzaville: country slug republic-of-the-congo, city slug pointe-noire, ISO CG, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Brazzaville.
4.78°S, 11.86°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -5 and longitude band 11; exact decimal pair -4.77609, 11.86352.
Congo - Brazzaville: official name Republic of the Congo; capital Brazzaville; region Africa; subregion Middle Africa; country population 6,142,180; area 342,000 km²; languages French, Kikongo, Lingala; currencies XAF Central African CFA franc. This is the country layer behind the Pointe-Noire clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Republic of the Congo: The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply Congo, is a country located on the western coast of Central Africa to the west of the Congo River. It is bordered to the west by Gabon, to the northwest by Cameroon, to the northeast by the Central African Republic, to the southeast by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south by the Angolan exclave of Cabinda, and to the southwest by the Atlantic Ocean. Source: Wikipedia.
Dolisie [dolisie-CG, CG, Africa/Brazzaville, 110 km]; Nkayi [nkayi-CG, CG, Africa/Brazzaville, 171 km]; Brazzaville [brazzaville-CG, CG, Africa/Brazzaville, 383 km]; Kinshasa [kinshasa-CD, CD, Africa/Kinshasa, 386 km]; Masina [masina-CD, CD, Africa/Kinshasa, 393 km]; Franceville [franceville-GA, GA, Africa/Libreville, 398 km]; Luanda [luanda-AO, AO, Africa/Luanda, 476 km]; Port-Gentil [port-gentil-GA, GA, Africa/Libreville, 566 km]
Pointe-Noire is part of this indexed country cluster: Brazzaville [brazzaville-CG, Africa/Brazzaville, pop 1,982,000]; Pointe-Noire [pointe-noire-CG, Africa/Brazzaville, pop 1,032,000]; Dolisie [dolisie-CG, Africa/Brazzaville, pop 121,000]; Nkayi [nkayi-CG, Africa/Brazzaville, pop 103,000].
Dubai 5,750 km; London 6,362 km; São Paulo 6,593 km; New York 10,007 km; Singapore 10,237 km; Tokyo 13,676 km; Los Angeles 13,938 km; Sydney 13,960 km
BZV Maya-Maya International Airport in Brazzaville [CG, 380 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include BZV Maya-Maya International Airport in Brazzaville [CG].
Pointe-Noire renders Jun 2, 2026 · 11:48 GMT+1; GMT+1 at UTC+01:00; January UTC+01:00; July UTC+01:00; next holiday Reconciliation Day on 2026-06-10.
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 Pointe-Noire.
Pointe-Noire is a manual-dossier city; rank #2 of 4 retained Congo - Brazzaville city pages. The route is /time/republic-of-the-congo/pointe-noire/ and the city id is pointe-noire-CG.
Pointe-Noire has 16 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.
Pointe-Noire is pinned at 4.78°S, 11.86°E; Dolisie (110 km); Dubai (5,750 km).
Africa/Brazzaville resolves to stable UTC+01:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Congo - Brazzaville.
BZV Maya-Maya International Airport (380 km) · Reconciliation Day (Wednesday, June 10, 2026) · 1 country airport reference · 11 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Pointe-Noire 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.
Pointe-Noire: Pointe-Noire is the second largest city in the Republic of the Congo, with a population of 1,420,612 inhabitants in 2023. It is also an autonomous department and a commune since the 2002 constitution; before this date it was the capital of the Kouilou region. It is situated on a headland between Pointe-Noire Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Pointe-Noire is the main economic centre of the country. It is located near the border with Angola.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+01:00) is constant year-round.
Pointe-Noire is listed in the dataset snapshot as 1 hour ahead of UTC (offset +01:00). On the same clock as London, 8 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 11.86°, Pointe-Noire's mean solar noon falls about 13 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.
Pointe-Noire sits at 4.78°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Pointe-Noire sits at 4.78°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
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
Jan 1 (12h 24m)
Shortest day
Jun 3 (11h 51m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 33m
See the full daylight curve for Pointe-Noire at /sun/pointe-noire/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Pointe-Noire local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Pointe-Noire |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 14:00 - 22:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 06:00 - 14:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 04:30 - 12:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 02:00 - 10:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 02:00 - 10:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 01:00 - 09:00 |
Public holidays in 2026
11
Pointe-Noire is the second-largest city of the Republic of the Congo and its main seaport and economic capital, with an urban population of roughly 1 million. It observes West Africa Time (WAT, UTC+1) year-round with no daylight saving. Situated on the Atlantic coast, Pointe-Noire is the centre of the country's offshore oil industry, which dominates the national economy, and its deepwater port is one of the most important on the western coast of Central Africa. The city grew rapidly from the 1920s as the Atlantic terminus of the Congo-Ocean Railway, which links it to the capital Brazzaville inland. Pointe-Noire is the country's principal commercial and industrial hub and a key gateway for trade in the region.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Pointe-Noire's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 11:48:06 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Pointe-Noire (UTC+01:00, WAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:14 AM to 06:06 PM
Day length 11h 52m · Solar noon 12:10 PM
Next country holiday
Reconciliation Day
Wednesday, June 10, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Pointe-Noire local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
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187 days to go
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34 days to go
Population
1M
Coordinates
-4.78, 11.86
Timezone
Africa/Brazzaville
Indexed airports
1
Capital
Brazzaville
Languages
French, Kikongo
Currency
XAF (Fr)
Country area
342,000 km²
Pointe-Noire, Congo - Brazzaville (population rank #2 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Brazzaville (WAT, UTC+01:00); population ~1M.
Coordinates: 4.78°S, 11.86°E. Equatorial Hemisphere deep tropics, ~530 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:14 AM and sets around 06:06 PM in Pointe-Noire — about 11h 52m of daylight. Congo - Brazzaville stays on standard time here, so UTC+01:00 is stable through the year.
Dolisie (110 km from Pointe-Noire) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Congo - Brazzaville.
Next national holiday: Reconciliation Day, 2026-06-10.
Pointe-Noire is indexed as a Africa city in the CG country record, using Africa/Brazzaville as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/republic-of-the-congo/pointe-noire/.
Location context: 4.78°S, 11.86°E; population 1,032,000; nearest indexed city Dolisie is about 110 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 5,750 km away.
Country planning context: capital Brazzaville; subregion Middle Africa; languages French, Kikongo, Lingala; currency XAF (Fr); area 342,000 km²; 1 curated airport references; next holiday Reconciliation Day on 2026-06-10.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+01:00) is constant year-round.
Pointe-Noire is listed in the dataset snapshot as 1 hour ahead of UTC (offset +01:00). On the same clock as London, 8 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 11.86°, Pointe-Noire's mean solar noon falls about 13 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.
Pointe-Noire sits at 4.78°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Major metropolitan area with around 1 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Pointe-Noire: Brazzaville (same time), Sydney (+9h), Tokyo (+8h), Singapore (+7h), Mumbai (+4.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
republic-of-the-congo
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
WAT
IANA Zone
Africa/Brazzaville
UTC Offset
UTC+01:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+01:00
Algeria, Tunisia, Isle of Man, Ireland, United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, Central African Republic
Other cities in this timezone
London
+0h
New York
-5h
Los Angeles
-8h
Dubai
+3h
Singapore
+7h
Tokyo
+8h
Sydney
+9h
São Paulo
-4h
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 Pointe-Noire.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Pointe-Noire: closest hubs Dubai (~5,750 km), London (~6,362 km), São Paulo (~6,593 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~13,960 km).
Pointe-Noire sits inside Congo - Brazzaville — the Middle Africa subregion, capital Brazzaville, languages French, Kikongo, Lingala, currency XAF (Fr).
Closest indexed cities to Pointe-Noire: Dolisie (110 km), Nkayi (171 km), Brazzaville (383 km), Kinshasa (386 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Pointe-Noire: Reconciliation Day, National Day, All Saints' Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Congo - Brazzaville.
Closest curated airport references from Pointe-Noire: BZV Brazzaville (380 km).
Maya-Maya International AirportBZV
Brazzaville · 380 km from Pointe-Noire
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 14m
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 | 11:48 AM | +0h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:48 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:48 AM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:48 PM | +3h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:48 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:48 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:48 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:48 AM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
Dolisie
Congo - Brazzaville
Approx. 110 km away
Nkayi
Congo - Brazzaville
Approx. 171 km away
Brazzaville
Congo - Brazzaville
Approx. 383 km away
Kinshasa
Congo - Kinshasa
Approx. 386 km away
Masina
Congo - Kinshasa
Approx. 393 km away
Franceville
Gabon
Approx. 398 km away
Luanda
Angola
Approx. 476 km away
Port-Gentil
Gabon
Approx. 566 km away
Pointe-Noire is in the Africa/Brazzaville timezone (WAT), with a UTC offset of +01:00.
Pointe-Noire does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+01:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Pointe-Noire is UTC+01:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Pointe-Noire, 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 · 11:48 GMT+1. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Pointe-Noire sits at 4.78°S, 11.86°E in Congo - Brazzaville, with about 1M residents (rank #2 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Pointe-Noire is Dubai, about 5,750 km away as the crow flies.
Dolisie is the closest indexed city, roughly 110 km from Pointe-Noire.
Maya-Maya International Airport (BZV) is the closest curated airport reference, about 380 km from Pointe-Noire.
Reconciliation Day is the next upcoming holiday in Congo - Brazzaville, on Wednesday, June 10, 2026.
Pointe-Noire uses Central African CFA franc (XAF, symbol Fr) as the local currency of Congo - Brazzaville.
The longest day of 2026 in Pointe-Noire falls on Jan 1 with about 12h 24m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 3 with 11h 51m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
In Pointe-Noire local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 14:00-22:00; London 09:00-17:00; Frankfurt 08:00-16:00; Dubai 06:00-14:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.