Indexed entity
Kitwe is the kitwe-ZM record in Zambia: country slug zambia, city slug kitwe, ISO ZM, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Lusaka.
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Live local time
Kitwe, Zambia
12:42:08 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Lusaka
Quick answer
It is currently 12:42:08 PM (CAT, UTC+02:00) in Kitwe, Zambia — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
15°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
27°C
15°C
Wed
27°C
14°C
Thu
27°C
13°C
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
ZMW
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
06:22 AM
Sunset
05:47 PM
Day length
11h 25m
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 Kitwe, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:42 AM UTC.
Current local time
12:42:08 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CAT
Africa/Lusaka · UTC+02:00
Next holiday
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Kitwe right now
Nearest airport
LUN
Kenneth Kaunda International Airport · 282 km
Indexed airports
1
Curated airport references available for Zambia
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Kitwe, Zambia.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:42 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Kitwe 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
11:42 AM / -1h
Dubai
02:42 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
LUN Lusaka, 282 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:22 AM to 05:47 PM, with solar noon around 12:05 PM and total daylight of 11h 25m.
Mapped location
12.80°S, 28.21°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:42 AM / -1h
Good live-call window with Kitwe right now.
New York
06:42 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:42 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:42 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Kitwe right now.
Singapore
06:42 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 Kitwe.
LUN · Kenneth Kaunda International Airport
Lusaka
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Lusaka 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 Kitwe right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest curated airport reference: LUN Lusaka, 282 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Lusaka. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Kitwe 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 Kitwe.
Canonical route
/time/zambia/kitwe/
Catalog identity
kitwe-ZM · ZM · Africa
Coordinate cell
12.80°S, 28.21°E · lat -12.802 · lon 28.213 · cell -1280:2821
Population record
665,961 residents · country rank 2
Zone snapshot
Africa/Lusaka · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Ndola, Zambia · 49 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 5,144 km
Closest airport references
LUN Lusaka 282 km
Zone peer roster
Lusaka, Zambia · Ndola, Zambia · Chipata, Zambia
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Kitwe: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Kitwe is the kitwe-ZM record in Zambia: country slug zambia, city slug kitwe, ISO ZM, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Lusaka.
12.80°S, 28.21°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -13 and longitude band 28; exact decimal pair -12.80243, 28.21323.
Zambia: official name Republic of Zambia; capital Lusaka; region Africa; subregion Eastern Africa; country population 19,693,423; area 752,612 km²; languages English; currencies ZMW Zambian kwacha. This is the country layer behind the Kitwe clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Zambia: Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered to the north by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania to the northeast, Malawi to the east, Mozambique to the southeast, Zimbabwe and Botswana to the south, Namibia to the southwest, and Angola to the west. The capital city of Zambia is Lusaka, located in the south-central part of Zambia. The population is concentrated mainly around Lusaka in the south and the Copperbelt Province to the north, the core economic hubs of Zambia. Source: Wikipedia.
Ndola [ndola-ZM, ZM, Africa/Lusaka, 49 km]; Lubumbashi [lubumbashi-CD, CD, Africa/Lubumbashi, 150 km]; Lusaka [lusaka-ZM, ZM, Africa/Lusaka, 290 km]; Chipata [chipata-ZM, ZM, Africa/Lusaka, 489 km]; Lilongwe [lilongwe-MW, MW, Africa/Blantyre, 617 km]; Harare [harare-ZW, ZW, Africa/Harare, 636 km]; Mzuzu [mzuzu-MW, MW, Africa/Blantyre, 649 km]; Chitungwiza [chitungwiza-ZW, ZW, Africa/Harare, 656 km]
Kitwe is part of this indexed country cluster: Lusaka [lusaka-ZM, Africa/Lusaka, pop 2,212,301]; Kitwe [kitwe-ZM, Africa/Lusaka, pop 665,961]; Ndola [ndola-ZM, Africa/Lusaka, pop 627,503]; Chipata [chipata-ZM, Africa/Lusaka, pop 327,059].
Dubai 5,144 km; London 7,656 km; São Paulo 7,917 km; Singapore 8,482 km; New York 11,955 km; Sydney 12,066 km; Tokyo 12,760 km; Los Angeles 15,889 km
LUN Kenneth Kaunda International Airport in Lusaka [ZM, 282 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include LUN Kenneth Kaunda International Airport in Lusaka [ZM].
Kitwe renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:42 GMT+2; GMT+2 at UTC+02:00; January UTC+02:00; July UTC+02:00; 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 Kitwe.
Kitwe is a context-and-reference city; rank #2 of 4 retained Zambia city pages. The route is /time/zambia/kitwe/ and the city id is kitwe-ZM.
Kitwe has 14 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.
Kitwe is pinned at 12.80°S, 28.21°E; Ndola (49 km); Dubai (5,144 km).
Africa/Lusaka resolves to stable UTC+02:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Zambia.
LUN Kenneth Kaunda International Airport (282 km) · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 1 country airport reference · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Kitwe 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.
Kitwe: Kitwe is the third largest city in terms of infrastructure development and second largest city in terms of size and population in Zambia. With a population of 661,901 as of the 2022 census, Kitwe is one of the most developed commercial and industrial areas in the nation, alongside Ndola and Lusaka. It has a complex of mines on its north-western and western edges.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Kitwe 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 28.21°, Kitwe's mean solar noon falls about 7 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.
Kitwe sits at 12.80°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.
Kitwe sits at 12.80°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 17 (12h 53m)
Shortest day
Jun 15 (11h 22m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
1h 31m
See the full daylight curve for Kitwe at /sun/kitwe/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Kitwe local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Kitwe |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Reference fields include Kitwe's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:42:08 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Kitwe (UTC+02:00, CAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:22 AM to 05:47 PM
Day length 11h 25m · Solar noon 12:05 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Kitwe local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
666K
Coordinates
-12.80, 28.21
Timezone
Africa/Lusaka
Indexed airports
1
Capital
Lusaka
Languages
English
Currency
ZMW (ZK)
Country area
752,612 km²
Kitwe, Zambia (population rank #2 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Lusaka (CAT, UTC+02:00); population ~666K.
Coordinates: 12.80°S, 28.21°E. Southern Hemisphere tropics, ~1421 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:22 AM and sets around 05:47 PM in Kitwe — about 11h 25m of daylight. Zambia stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Ndola (49 km from Kitwe) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Zambia.
Kitwe is indexed as a Africa city in the ZM country record, using Africa/Lusaka as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/zambia/kitwe/.
Location context: 12.80°S, 28.21°E; population 665,961; nearest indexed city Ndola is about 49 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 5,144 km away.
Country planning context: capital Lusaka; subregion Eastern Africa; languages English; currency ZMW (ZK); area 752,612 km²; 1 curated airport references; no upcoming holiday signal currently in view.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Kitwe 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 28.21°, Kitwe's mean solar noon falls about 7 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.
Kitwe sits at 12.80°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.
Sizeable city with about 666 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Kitwe: Lusaka (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), Lima (−7h), Luanda (−1h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
zambia
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
CAT
IANA Zone
Africa/Lusaka
UTC Offset
UTC+02:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
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 Kitwe.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Kitwe: closest hubs Dubai (~5,144 km), London (~7,656 km), São Paulo (~7,917 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~15,889 km).
Kitwe sits inside Zambia — the Eastern Africa subregion, capital Lusaka, languages English, currency ZMW (ZK).
Closest indexed cities to Kitwe: Ndola (49 km), Lubumbashi (150 km), Lusaka (290 km), Chipata (489 km).
Closest curated airport references from Kitwe: LUN Lusaka (282 km).
Kenneth Kaunda International AirportLUN
Lusaka · 282 km from Kitwe
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 7m
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 | 11:42 AM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:42 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:42 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:42 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:42 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:42 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:42 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:42 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Kitwe is in the Africa/Lusaka timezone (CAT), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Kitwe 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 Kitwe is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Kitwe, 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 · 12:42 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Kitwe sits at 12.80°S, 28.21°E in Zambia, with about 666K residents (rank #2 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Kitwe is Dubai, about 5,144 km away as the crow flies.
Ndola is the closest indexed city, roughly 49 km from Kitwe.
Kenneth Kaunda International Airport (LUN) is the closest curated airport reference, about 282 km from Kitwe.
Kitwe uses Zambian kwacha (ZMW, symbol ZK) as the local currency of Zambia.
The longest day of 2026 in Kitwe falls on Dec 17 with about 12h 53m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 15 with 11h 22m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
In Kitwe 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.