Local time in Namibia
Republic of Namibia
Current local time in Namibia (CAT (UTC+2)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — Windhoek
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Differences are relative to Windhoek, Namibia, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Namibia
- Standard label
- CAT (UTC+2)
- Standard offset (Windhoek)
- UTC+2
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- Windhoek
- IANA zones
- Africa/Windhoek
Namibia 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 Namibia.
Sunrise and sunset in Windhoek
At 22.6° south, Windhoek gets 13 h 31 min of daylight around the December solstice but only 10 h 45 min around the June solstice — a difference of 2 h 46 min.
On standard time the sun is highest at about 12:52 on average — 52 minutes after 12:00 — because the clocks are set ahead of local solar time, which gives long, light evenings.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 06:25 | 13:04 | 19:42 | 13 h 17 min |
| 21 February | 06:45 | 13:06 | 19:28 | 12 h 43 min |
| 21 March | 06:56 | 13:00 | 19:03 | 12 h 07 min |
| 21 April | 07:07 | 12:51 | 18:35 | 11 h 28 min |
| 21 May | 07:20 | 12:49 | 18:18 | 10 h 58 min |
| 21 June | 07:32 | 12:54 | 18:17 | 10 h 45 min |
| 21 July | 07:31 | 12:59 | 18:27 | 10 h 56 min |
| 21 August | 07:13 | 12:56 | 18:39 | 11 h 26 min |
| 21 September | 06:43 | 12:46 | 18:48 | 12 h 05 min |
| 21 October | 06:15 | 12:37 | 18:59 | 12 h 43 min |
| 21 November | 06:00 | 12:38 | 19:17 | 13 h 17 min |
| 21 December | 06:05 | 12:50 | 19:36 | 13 h 31 min |
Calculated for Windhoek (-22.57°, 17.08°; 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 Namibia
Namibia 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.