Local time in Eswatini
Kingdom of Eswatini
Current local time in Eswatini (CAT (UTC+2)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — Mbabane
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Differences are relative to Mbabane, Eswatini, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Eswatini
- Standard label
- CAT (UTC+2)
- Standard offset (Mbabane)
- UTC+2
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- Mbabane
- IANA zones
- Africa/Johannesburg
Eswatini 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 Eswatini.
Sunrise and sunset in Mbabane
At 26.3° south, Mbabane gets 13 h 47 min of daylight around the December solstice but only 10 h 29 min around the June solstice — a difference of 3 h 18 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 05:22 | 12:07 | 18:53 | 13 h 31 min |
| 21 February | 05:45 | 12:10 | 18:35 | 12 h 50 min |
| 21 March | 06:00 | 12:04 | 18:07 | 12 h 07 min |
| 21 April | 06:15 | 11:55 | 17:35 | 11 h 20 min |
| 21 May | 06:31 | 11:53 | 17:15 | 10 h 44 min |
| 21 June | 06:43 | 11:58 | 17:13 | 10 h 29 min |
| 21 July | 06:41 | 12:02 | 17:24 | 10 h 43 min |
| 21 August | 06:20 | 12:00 | 17:39 | 11 h 19 min |
| 21 September | 05:47 | 11:50 | 17:52 | 12 h 04 min |
| 21 October | 05:16 | 11:41 | 18:06 | 12 h 50 min |
| 21 November | 04:57 | 11:42 | 18:27 | 13 h 30 min |
| 21 December | 05:00 | 11:54 | 18:48 | 13 h 47 min |
Calculated for Mbabane (-26.32°, 31.13°; 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 Eswatini
Eswatini 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.