Indexed entity
Lusaka is the lusaka-ZM record in Zambia: country slug zambia, city slug lusaka, ISO ZM, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Lusaka.
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Live local time
Lusaka, Zambia
12:44:06 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Lusaka
Quick answer
It is currently 12:44:06 PM (CAT, UTC+02:00) in Lusaka, Zambia — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
16°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
24°C
14°C
Wed
23°C
14°C
Thu
24°C
14°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
06:26 AM
Sunset
05:42 PM
Day length
11h 16m
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 Lusaka, 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
12:44:06 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 Lusaka right now
Nearest airport
LUN
Kenneth Kaunda International Airport · 20 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 Lusaka, Zambia.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:44 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Lusaka 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
11:44 AM / -1h
Dubai
02:44 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
LUN Lusaka, 20 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:26 AM to 05:42 PM, with solar noon around 12:04 PM and total daylight of 11h 16m.
Mapped location
15.41°S, 28.29°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:44 AM / -1h
Good live-call window with Lusaka right now.
New York
06:44 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:44 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:44 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Lusaka right now.
Singapore
06:44 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 Lusaka.
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 Lusaka right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest curated airport reference: LUN Lusaka, 20 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
Lusaka 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 Lusaka.
Canonical route
/time/zambia/lusaka/
Catalog identity
lusaka-ZM · ZM · Africa
Coordinate cell
15.41°S, 28.29°E · lat -15.407 · lon 28.287 · cell -1541:2829
Population record
2,212,301 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Africa/Lusaka · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Ndola, Zambia · 275 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 5,380 km
Closest airport references
LUN Lusaka 20 km
Zone peer roster
Kitwe, Zambia · Ndola, Zambia · Chipata, Zambia
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Lusaka: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Lusaka is the lusaka-ZM record in Zambia: country slug zambia, city slug lusaka, ISO ZM, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Lusaka.
15.41°S, 28.29°E; Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -16 and longitude band 28; exact decimal pair -15.40669, 28.28713.
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 Lusaka 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, 275 km]; Kitwe [kitwe-ZM, ZM, Africa/Lusaka, 290 km]; Harare [harare-ZW, ZW, Africa/Harare, 399 km]; Chitungwiza [chitungwiza-ZW, ZW, Africa/Harare, 415 km]; Lubumbashi [lubumbashi-CD, CD, Africa/Lubumbashi, 426 km]; Chipata [chipata-ZM, ZM, Africa/Lusaka, 509 km]; Bulawayo [bulawayo-ZW, ZW, Africa/Harare, 528 km]; Mutare [mutare-ZW, ZW, Africa/Harare, 611 km]
Lusaka 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 5,380 km; São Paulo 7,824 km; London 7,934 km; Singapore 8,499 km; Sydney 11,862 km; New York 12,143 km; Tokyo 12,912 km; Los Angeles 16,078 km
LUN Kenneth Kaunda International Airport in Lusaka [ZM, 20 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include LUN Kenneth Kaunda International Airport in Lusaka [ZM].
Lusaka renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:44 GMT+2; GMT+2 at UTC+02:00; January UTC+02:00; July UTC+02:00; 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 Lusaka.
Lusaka is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained Zambia city pages. The route is /time/zambia/lusaka/ and the city id is lusaka-ZM.
Lusaka 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.
Lusaka is pinned at 15.41°S, 28.29°E; Ndola (275 km); Dubai (5,380 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 (20 km) · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 1 country airport reference · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Lusaka 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.
Lusaka: Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia. It is one of the fastest-developing cities in southern Africa. Lusaka is in the southern part of the central plateau at an elevation of about 1,279 metres (4,196 ft). As of 2019, the city's population was about 3.3 million, while the urban population is estimated at 2.5 million in 2018. Lusaka is the centre of both commerce and government in Zambia and connects to the country's four main highways heading north, south, east, and west. English is the official language of the city administration, while Bemba, Tonga and Nyanja are the commonly spoken street languages.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+02:00) is constant year-round.
Lusaka 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 28.29°, Lusaka'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.
Lusaka sits at 15.41°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.
Lusaka sits at 15.41°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 12 (13h 2m)
Shortest day
Jun 12 (11h 13m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
1h 49m
See the full daylight curve for Lusaka at /sun/lusaka/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Lusaka local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Lusaka |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Capital status
National capital of Zambia
Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia, with an urban population in the millions and a metropolitan area that ranks among the fastest-growing in southern Africa. Central Africa Time (CAT, UTC+2) is the country's fixed civil time, with no daylight saving. The British founded Lusaka in 1913 as a small railway settlement, and it became the capital of the colony of Northern Rhodesia in 1935 and of independent Zambia in 1964. The city sits on a plateau at about 1,280 metres elevation and is the political, financial, and commercial centre of a country whose economy has long depended on copper mining; decline in the Copperbelt drove heavy migration toward Lusaka over recent decades.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Lusaka's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:44:06 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Lusaka (UTC+02:00, CAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:26 AM to 05:42 PM
Day length 11h 16m · Solar noon 12:04 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Lusaka local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
2.2M
Coordinates
-15.41, 28.29
Timezone
Africa/Lusaka
Indexed airports
1
Capital
Lusaka
Languages
English
Currency
ZMW (ZK)
Country area
752,612 km²
Lusaka, Zambia (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Lusaka (CAT, UTC+02:00); population ~2.2M.
Coordinates: 15.41°S, 28.29°E. Southern Hemisphere tropics, ~1710 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:26 AM and sets around 05:42 PM in Lusaka — about 11h 16m of daylight. Zambia stays on standard time here, so UTC+02:00 is stable through the year.
Ndola (275 km from Lusaka) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Zambia.
Lusaka 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/lusaka/.
Location context: 15.41°S, 28.29°E; population 2,212,301; nearest indexed city Ndola is about 275 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 5,380 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.
Lusaka 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 28.29°, Lusaka'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.
Lusaka sits at 15.41°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.
Major metropolitan area with around 2.2 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Lusaka: Kitwe (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), Lima (−7h), Belo Horizonte (−5h).
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 Lusaka.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Lusaka: closest hubs Dubai (~5,380 km), São Paulo (~7,824 km), London (~7,934 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~16,078 km).
Lusaka sits inside Zambia — the Eastern Africa subregion, capital Lusaka, languages English, currency ZMW (ZK).
Closest indexed cities to Lusaka: Ndola (275 km), Kitwe (290 km), Harare (399 km), Chitungwiza (415 km).
Closest curated airport references from Lusaka: LUN Lusaka (20 km).
Kenneth Kaunda International AirportLUN
Lusaka · 20 km from Lusaka
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 47m
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 | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:44 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:44 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:44 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:44 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:44 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:44 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:44 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Lusaka is in the Africa/Lusaka timezone (CAT), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Lusaka 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 Lusaka is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Lusaka, 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 · 12:44 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Lusaka sits at 15.41°S, 28.29°E in Zambia, with about 2.2M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Lusaka is Dubai, about 5,380 km away as the crow flies.
Ndola is the closest indexed city, roughly 275 km from Lusaka.
Kenneth Kaunda International Airport (LUN) is the closest curated airport reference, about 20 km from Lusaka.
Lusaka uses Zambian kwacha (ZMW, symbol ZK) as the local currency of Zambia.
The longest day of 2026 in Lusaka falls on Dec 12 with about 13h 2m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 12 with 11h 13m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
In Lusaka 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.