Indexed entity
São Tomé is the sao-tome-ST record in São Tomé & Príncipe: country slug sao-tome-and-principe, city slug sao-tome, ISO ST, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Sao_Tome.
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Live local time
São Tomé, São Tomé & Príncipe
12:17:03 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Sao_Tome
Quick answer
It is currently 12:17:03 PM (GMT, UTC+00:00) in São Tomé, São Tomé & Príncipe — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
26°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
28°C
25°C
Wed
29°C
26°C
22% rain
Thu
28°C
25°C
25% rain
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
STN
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
05:26 AM
Sunset
05:35 PM
Day length
12h 8m
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 São Tomé, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 12:17 PM UTC.
Current local time
12:17:03 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
GMT
Africa/Sao_Tome · UTC+00:00
Next holiday
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Business overlap now
3 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with São Tomé right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near São Tomé
Indexed airports
0
Curated airport references available for São Tomé & Príncipe
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to São Tomé, São Tomé & Príncipe.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:17 GMT
3 reference cities are overlapping now
São Tomé is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+00:00
Zone label
GMT
London
01:17 PM / +1h
Dubai
04:17 PM / +4h
São Paulo
09:17 AM / -3h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
Port-Gentil, 257 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:26 AM to 05:35 PM, with solar noon around 11:31 AM and total daylight of 12h 9m.
Mapped location
0.34°N, 6.73°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
01:17 PM / +1h
Good live-call window with São Tomé right now.
New York
08:17 AM / -4h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
05:17 AM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
04:17 PM / +4h
Good live-call window with São Tomé right now.
Singapore
08:17 PM / +8h
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 São Tomé.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Sao_Tome for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+00:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+00:00.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai, São Paulo because they overlap with São Tomé right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest mapped context: Port-Gentil, 257 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Sao_Tome. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
São Tomé 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 São Tomé.
Canonical route
/time/sao-tome-and-principe/sao-tome/
Catalog identity
sao-tome-ST · ST · Africa
Coordinate cell
0.34°N, 6.73°E · lat 0.338 · lon 6.730 · cell 34:673
Population record
53,300 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Africa/Sao_Tome · GMT · UTC+00:00
January / July offsets
UTC+00:00 / UTC+00:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Port-Gentil, Gabon · 257 km
Nearest world hub
London · 5,726 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to São Tomé
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for São Tomé: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
São Tomé is the sao-tome-ST record in São Tomé & Príncipe: country slug sao-tome-and-principe, city slug sao-tome, ISO ST, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Sao_Tome.
0.34°N, 6.73°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 0 and longitude band 6; exact decimal pair 0.33756, 6.72990.
São Tomé & Príncipe: official name Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe; capital São Tomé; region Africa; subregion Middle Africa; country population 209,607; area 964 km²; languages Portuguese; currencies STN São Tomé and Príncipe dobra. This is the country layer behind the São Tomé clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
São Tomé and Príncipe: São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two archipelagos around the two main islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, about 81 nautical miles apart and about 135 and 121 nautical miles off the northwestern coast of Gabon. With a population of 201,800, São Tomé and Príncipe is the second-smallest and second-least populous African sovereign state after Seychelles. Source: Wikipedia.
Port-Gentil [port-gentil-GA, GA, Africa/Libreville, 257 km]; Libreville [libreville-GA, GA, Africa/Libreville, 303 km]; Owendo [owendo-GA, GA, Africa/Libreville, 309 km]; Bata [bata-GQ, GQ, Africa/Malabo, 378 km]; Malabo [malabo-GQ, GQ, Africa/Malabo, 443 km]; Douala [douala-CM, CM, Africa/Douala, 529 km]; Ebebiyin [ebebiyin-GQ, GQ, Africa/Malabo, 550 km]; Yaoundé [yaounde-CM, CM, Africa/Douala, 661 km]
São Tomé is part of this indexed country cluster: São Tomé [sao-tome-ST, Africa/Sao_Tome, pop 53,300].
London 5,726 km; Dubai 5,895 km; São Paulo 6,338 km; New York 9,204 km; Singapore 10,795 km; Los Angeles 13,136 km; Tokyo 13,716 km; Sydney 14,763 km
São Tomé has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for São Tomé & Príncipe.
São Tomé renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:17 GMT; GMT at UTC+00:00; January UTC+00:00; July UTC+00:00; 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 São Tomé.
São Tomé is a context-and-reference city; rank #1 of 1 retained São Tomé & Príncipe city page. The route is /time/sao-tome-and-principe/sao-tome/ and the city id is sao-tome-ST.
São Tomé has 11 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.
São Tomé is pinned at 0.34°N, 6.73°E; Port-Gentil (257 km); London (5,726 km).
Africa/Sao_Tome resolves to stable UTC+00:00 offset across January and July. 0 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside São Tomé & Príncipe.
São Tomé 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.
São Tomé 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.
São Tomé: São Tomé is the capital and largest city of the Central African island country of São Tomé and Príncipe. Its name is Portuguese for "Saint Thomas". Founded in the 15th century, it is one of Africa's oldest colonial cities.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+00:00) is constant year-round.
São Tomé is listed in the dataset snapshot as aligned with UTC (offset +00:00). 1 hour behind London, 9 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 6.73°, São Tomé's mean solar noon falls about 27 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.
São Tomé sits at 0.34°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
São Tomé sits at 0.34°N, 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
Apr 26 (12h 8m)
Shortest day
Jan 1 (12h 6m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 2m
See the full daylight curve for São Tomé at /sun/sao-tome/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into São Tomé local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in São Tomé |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 13:00 - 21:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 07:00 - 15:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 05:00 - 13:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 03:30 - 11:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 01:00 - 09:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 01:00 - 09:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 00:00 - 08:00 |
Capital status
National capital of São Tomé & Príncipe
Reference fields include São Tomé's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:17:03 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in São Tomé (UTC+00:00, GMT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:26 AM to 05:35 PM
Day length 12h 9m · Solar noon 11:31 AM
Tracked countdowns rendered for São Tomé local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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34 days to go
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187 days to go
Population
53.3K
Coordinates
0.34, 6.73
Timezone
Africa/Sao_Tome
Indexed airports
0
Capital
São Tomé
Languages
Portuguese
Currency
STN (Db)
Country area
964 km²
São Tomé, São Tomé & Príncipe (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Sao_Tome (GMT, UTC+00:00); population ~53.3K.
Coordinates: 0.34°N, 6.73°E. Equatorial Hemisphere deep tropics, ~37 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:26 AM and sets around 05:35 PM in São Tomé — about 12h 9m of daylight. São Tomé & Príncipe stays on standard time here, so UTC+00:00 is stable through the year.
Port-Gentil (257 km from São Tomé) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for São Tomé & Príncipe.
São Tomé is indexed as a Africa city in the ST country record, using Africa/Sao_Tome as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/sao-tome-and-principe/sao-tome/.
Location context: 0.34°N, 6.73°E; population 53,300; nearest indexed city Port-Gentil is about 257 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 5,726 km away.
Country planning context: capital São Tomé; subregion Middle Africa; languages Portuguese; currency STN (Db); area 964 km²; 0 curated airport references; no upcoming holiday signal currently in view.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+00:00) is constant year-round.
São Tomé is listed in the dataset snapshot as aligned with UTC (offset +00:00). 1 hour behind London, 9 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 6.73°, São Tomé's mean solar noon falls about 27 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.
São Tomé sits at 0.34°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Related clock anchors for São Tomé: Sydney (+10h), Tokyo (+9h), Singapore (+8h), Mumbai (+5.5h), São Paulo (−3h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
sao-tome-and-principe
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
GMT
IANA Zone
Africa/Sao Tome
UTC Offset
UTC+00:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+00:00
Portugal, , Ivory Coast, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Senegal, Greenland
London
+1h
New York
-4h
Los Angeles
-7h
Dubai
+4h
Singapore
+8h
Tokyo
+9h
Sydney
+10h
São Paulo
-3h
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 São Tomé.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from São Tomé: closest hubs London (~5,726 km), Dubai (~5,895 km), São Paulo (~6,338 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~14,763 km).
São Tomé sits inside São Tomé & Príncipe — the Middle Africa subregion, capital São Tomé, languages Portuguese, currency STN (Db).
Closest indexed cities to São Tomé: Port-Gentil (257 km), Libreville (303 km), Owendo (309 km), Bata (378 km).
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for São Tomé, 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
3 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 01:17 PM | +1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 08:17 AM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 05:17 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 04:17 PM | +4h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 08:17 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 09:17 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 10:17 PM | +10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 09:17 AM | -3h | Good to call now |
São Tomé is in the Africa/Sao_Tome timezone (GMT), with a UTC offset of +00:00.
São Tomé does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+00:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for São Tomé is UTC+00:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for São Tomé, 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 · 12:17 GMT. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
São Tomé sits at 0.34°N, 6.73°E in São Tomé & Príncipe, with about 53.3K residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to São Tomé is London, about 5,726 km away as the crow flies.
Port-Gentil is the closest indexed city, roughly 257 km from São Tomé.
São Tomé uses São Tomé and Príncipe dobra (STN, symbol Db) as the local currency of São Tomé & Príncipe.
The longest day of 2026 in São Tomé falls on Apr 26 with about 12h 8m of daylight. The shortest is Jan 1 with 12h 6m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
In São Tomé local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 13:00-21:00; London 08:00-16:00; Frankfurt 07:00-15:00; Dubai 05:00-13:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.