Local time in Botswana
Republic of Botswana
Current local time in Botswana (CAT (UTC+2)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — Gaborone
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Differences are relative to Gaborone, Botswana, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Botswana
- Standard label
- CAT (UTC+2)
- Standard offset (Gaborone)
- UTC+2
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- Gaborone
- IANA zones
- Africa/Maputo
Botswana uses CAT (UTC+2) as its standard time. Clocks stay on the same offset all year round — daylight saving time is not observed. Times on this page are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database, so they always match the real current time in Botswana.
Sunrise and sunset in Gaborone
At 24.7° south, Gaborone gets 13 h 40 min of daylight around the December solstice but only 10 h 36 min around the June solstice — a difference of 3 h 04 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 05:46 | 12:28 | 19:11 | 13 h 25 min |
| 21 February | 06:07 | 12:31 | 18:55 | 12 h 47 min |
| 21 March | 06:21 | 12:24 | 18:28 | 12 h 07 min |
| 21 April | 06:34 | 12:16 | 17:58 | 11 h 24 min |
| 21 May | 06:49 | 12:14 | 17:39 | 10 h 50 min |
| 21 June | 07:01 | 12:19 | 17:37 | 10 h 36 min |
| 21 July | 06:59 | 12:23 | 17:48 | 10 h 49 min |
| 21 August | 06:40 | 12:21 | 18:02 | 11 h 22 min |
| 21 September | 06:08 | 12:10 | 18:13 | 12 h 04 min |
| 21 October | 05:38 | 12:02 | 18:25 | 12 h 47 min |
| 21 November | 05:21 | 12:03 | 18:45 | 13 h 24 min |
| 21 December | 05:25 | 12:15 | 19:05 | 13 h 40 min |
Calculated for Gaborone (-24.66°, 25.91°; coordinates from Wikidata) with the standard solar-position formulas used by NOAA, for a sea-level horizon. Results are accurate to about a minute; hills, buildings and altitude shift what you actually see. Times change by only a minute or two from year to year.
Daylight saving time in Botswana
Botswana does not change its clocks: it stays on CAT (UTC+2) all year in 2026 and 2027.
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.