Indexed entity
Zanzibar is the zanzibar-TZ record in Tanzania: country slug tanzania, city slug zanzibar, ISO TZ, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Dar_es_Salaam.
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Live local time
Zanzibar, Tanzania
01:44:49 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Dar_es_Salaam
Quick answer
It is currently 01:44:49 PM (EAT, UTC+03:00) in Zanzibar, Tanzania — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
26°C
Drizzle
3-day forecast
Tue
28°C
24°C
57% rain
Wed
28°C
24°C
88% rain
Thu
28°C
24°C
93% rain
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
TZS
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
06:27 AM
Sunset
06:14 PM
Day length
11h 47m
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 Zanzibar, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:44 AM UTC.
Current local time
01:44:49 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
EAT
Africa/Dar_es_Salaam · UTC+03:00
Next holiday
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Zanzibar right now
Nearest airport
DAR
Julius Nyerere International Airport · 79 km
Indexed airports
1
Curated airport references available for Tanzania
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Zanzibar, Tanzania.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 13:44 GMT+3
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Zanzibar is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+03:00
Zone label
GMT+3
London
11:44 AM / -2h
Dubai
02:44 PM / +1h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
DAR Dar es Salaam, 79 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:27 AM to 06:14 PM, with solar noon around 12:21 PM and total daylight of 11h 47m.
Mapped location
6.16°S, 39.20°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:44 AM / -2h
Good live-call window with Zanzibar right now.
New York
06:44 AM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:44 AM / -10h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:44 PM / +1h
Good live-call window with Zanzibar right now.
Singapore
06:44 PM / +5h
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 Zanzibar.
DAR · Julius Nyerere International Airport
Dar es Salaam
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Dar_es_Salaam for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+03:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+03:00.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Zanzibar right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest curated airport reference: DAR Dar es Salaam, 79 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Dar_es_Salaam. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Zanzibar 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 Zanzibar.
Canonical route
/time/tanzania/zanzibar/
Catalog identity
zanzibar-TZ · TZ · Africa
Coordinate cell
6.16°S, 39.20°E · lat -6.164 · lon 39.198 · cell -616:3920
Population record
709,809 residents · country rank 4
Zone snapshot
Africa/Dar_es_Salaam · GMT+3 · UTC+03:00
January / July offsets
UTC+03:00 / UTC+03:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania · 74 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 3,897 km
Closest airport references
DAR Dar es Salaam 79 km
Zone peer roster
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania · Mwanza, Tanzania · Dodoma, Tanzania
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Zanzibar: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Zanzibar is the zanzibar-TZ record in Tanzania: country slug tanzania, city slug zanzibar, ISO TZ, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Dar_es_Salaam.
6.16°S, 39.20°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -7 and longitude band 39; exact decimal pair -6.16394, 39.19793.
Tanzania: official name United Republic of Tanzania; capital Dodoma; region Africa; subregion Eastern Africa; country population 68,153,004; area 947,303 km²; languages English, Swahili; currencies TZS Tanzanian shilling. This is the country layer behind the Zanzibar clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Tanzania: Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the northwest, Kenya to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the east, Mozambique and Malawi to the south, Zambia to the southwest, and Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. According to a 2024 estimate, Tanzania has a population of around 67.5 million, making it the most populous country located entirely south of the equator. Source: Wikipedia.
Dar es Salaam [dar-es-salaam-TZ, TZ, Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, 74 km]; Mombasa [mombasa-KE, KE, Africa/Nairobi, 240 km]; Dodoma [dodoma-TZ, TZ, Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, 382 km]; Nairobi [nairobi-KE, KE, Africa/Nairobi, 604 km]; Nakuru [nakuru-KE, KE, Africa/Nairobi, 738 km]; Moroni [moroni-KM, KM, Indian/Comoro, 760 km]; Mwanza [mwanza-TZ, TZ, Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, 807 km]; Mzuzu [mzuzu-MW, MW, Africa/Blantyre, 819 km]
Zanzibar is part of this indexed country cluster: Dar es Salaam [dar-es-salaam-TZ, Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, pop 5,383,728]; Mwanza [mwanza-TZ, Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, pop 1,104,521]; Dodoma [dodoma-TZ, Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, pop 765,179]; Zanzibar [zanzibar-TZ, Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, pop 709,809].
Dubai 3,897 km; Singapore 7,222 km; London 7,423 km; São Paulo 9,311 km; Tokyo 11,350 km; Sydney 11,614 km; New York 12,401 km; Los Angeles 16,142 km
DAR Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam [TZ, 79 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include DAR Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam [TZ].
Zanzibar renders Jun 2, 2026 · 13:44 GMT+3; GMT+3 at UTC+03:00; January UTC+03:00; July UTC+03:00; next holiday not currently surfaced.
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 Zanzibar.
Zanzibar is a manual-dossier city; rank #4 of 4 retained Tanzania city pages. The route is /time/tanzania/zanzibar/ and the city id is zanzibar-TZ.
Zanzibar has 15 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.
Zanzibar is pinned at 6.16°S, 39.20°E; Dar es Salaam (74 km); Dubai (3,897 km).
Africa/Dar_es_Salaam resolves to stable UTC+03:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Tanzania.
DAR Julius Nyerere International Airport (79 km) · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 1 country airport reference · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Zanzibar 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.
Zanzibar: Zanzibar is a Tanzanian archipelago off the coast of East Africa. It is located in the Indian Ocean, and consists of many small islands and two large ones: Unguja and Pemba Island. The capital is Zanzibar City, located on the island of Unguja. Its historic centre, Stone Town, is a World Heritage Site.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+03:00) is constant year-round.
Zanzibar is listed in the dataset snapshot as 3 hours ahead of UTC (offset +03:00). 2 hours ahead of London, 6 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 39.20°, Zanzibar's mean solar noon falls about 23 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.
Zanzibar sits at 6.16°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Zanzibar sits at 6.16°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
Dec 14 (12h 29m)
Shortest day
Jun 7 (11h 46m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 43m
See the full daylight curve for Zanzibar at /sun/zanzibar/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Zanzibar local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Zanzibar |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 16:00 - 00:00 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 06:30 - 14:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 04:00 - 12:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 04:00 - 12:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 03:00 - 11:00 |
Zanzibar City is the capital of the semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar, part of the United Republic of Tanzania, with a population of roughly 710,000. It observes East Africa Time (EAT, UTC+3) year-round, with no daylight saving. The city lies on the western coast of Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibar archipelago in the Indian Ocean, about 35 kilometres off mainland Tanzania. Its historic core, Stone Town, was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000 for its unique fusion of Swahili, Arab, Indian, and European architecture and its role as a centre of the East African spice and slave trades from the 19th century. Zanzibar was the seat of the Omani Sultanate from 1840 and merged with Tanganyika in 1964 to form modern Tanzania, retaining its own president and House of Representatives.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-23 (research).
Reference fields include Zanzibar's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 01:44:49 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Zanzibar (UTC+03:00, EAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:27 AM to 06:14 PM
Day length 11h 47m · Solar noon 12:21 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Zanzibar local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
709.8K
Coordinates
-6.16, 39.20
Timezone
Africa/Dar_es_Salaam
Indexed airports
1
Capital
Dodoma
Languages
English, Swahili
Currency
TZS (Sh)
Country area
947,303 km²
Zanzibar, Tanzania (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Dar_es_Salaam (EAT, UTC+03:00); population ~709.8K.
Coordinates: 6.16°S, 39.20°E. Southern Hemisphere deep tropics, ~684 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:27 AM and sets around 06:14 PM in Zanzibar — about 11h 47m of daylight. Tanzania stays on standard time here, so UTC+03:00 is stable through the year.
Dar es Salaam (74 km from Zanzibar) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Tanzania.
Zanzibar is indexed as a Africa city in the TZ country record, using Africa/Dar_es_Salaam as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/tanzania/zanzibar/.
Location context: 6.16°S, 39.20°E; population 709,809; nearest indexed city Dar es Salaam is about 74 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 3,897 km away.
Country planning context: capital Dodoma; subregion Eastern Africa; languages English, Swahili; currency TZS (Sh); area 947,303 km²; 1 curated airport references; no upcoming holiday signal currently in view.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+03:00) is constant year-round.
Zanzibar is listed in the dataset snapshot as 3 hours ahead of UTC (offset +03:00). 2 hours ahead of London, 6 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 39.20°, Zanzibar's mean solar noon falls about 23 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.
Zanzibar sits at 6.16°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Sizeable city with about 710 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Zanzibar: Dar es Salaam (same time), San Francisco (−10h), Los Angeles (−10h), Singapore (+5h), Mumbai (+2.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
tanzania
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
EAT
IANA Zone
Africa/Dar es Salaam
UTC Offset
UTC+03:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+03:00
Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan, Syria
Other cities in this timezone
London
-2h
New York
-7h
Los Angeles
-10h
Dubai
+1h
Singapore
+5h
Tokyo
+6h
Sydney
+7h
São Paulo
-6h
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 Zanzibar.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Zanzibar: closest hubs Dubai (~3,897 km), Singapore (~7,222 km), London (~7,423 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~16,142 km).
Zanzibar sits inside Tanzania — the Eastern Africa subregion, capital Dodoma, languages English, Swahili, currency TZS (Sh).
Closest indexed cities to Zanzibar: Dar es Salaam (74 km), Mombasa (240 km), Dodoma (382 km), Nairobi (604 km).
Closest curated airport references from Zanzibar: DAR Dar es Salaam (79 km).
Julius Nyerere International AirportDAR
Dar es Salaam · 79 km from Zanzibar
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 51m
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 | 11:44 AM | -2h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:44 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:44 AM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:44 PM | +1h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:44 PM | +5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:44 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:44 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:44 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
Zanzibar is in the Africa/Dar_es_Salaam timezone (EAT), with a UTC offset of +03:00.
Zanzibar does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+03:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Zanzibar is UTC+03:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Zanzibar, 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 · 13:44 GMT+3. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Zanzibar sits at 6.16°S, 39.20°E in Tanzania, with about 709.8K residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Zanzibar is Dubai, about 3,897 km away as the crow flies.
Dar es Salaam is the closest indexed city, roughly 74 km from Zanzibar.
Julius Nyerere International Airport (DAR) is the closest curated airport reference, about 79 km from Zanzibar.
Zanzibar uses Tanzanian shilling (TZS, symbol Sh) as the local currency of Tanzania.
The longest day of 2026 in Zanzibar falls on Dec 14 with about 12h 29m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 7 with 11h 46m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
In Zanzibar local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 16:00-00:00 (next day); London 11:00-19:00; Frankfurt 10:00-18:00; Dubai 08:00-16:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.