| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | ±0h | Becomes −1h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | +1h | Becomes ±0h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +3h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +8h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +9h | Becomes +10h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −5h | Becomes −6h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −8h | Becomes −9h on 1 Nov |
Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo runs on UTC+1. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Brazzaville and New York is 5 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 14:00–18:00 in Brazzaville lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Brazzaville and London currently share the same clock. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 9 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–18:00 in Brazzaville lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Brazzaville and Tokyo is 8 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hour a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–10:00 in Brazzaville lines up with 17:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Lagos, Kinshasa, Algiers. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Brazzaville.
Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo) is home to roughly 2.1M people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:44, sunset at 17:53. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 4° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Republic of the Congo
Capital
Brazzaville 👑
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+1 · Africa/Brazzaville
Coordinates
4.27°S, 15.28°E
Currency
XAF (FCFA)
Calling Code
+242
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Brazzaville and Kinshasa sit on opposite banks of the Congo, about 4 kilometres apart — the closest pair of capital cities in the world other than Rome and the Vatican. Together they form a metropolitan area of over 20 million.
The clock: Brazzaville keeps UTC+1 and Kinshasa keeps UTC+1 as well, so the two capitals at least agree on the hour, if on relatively little else.
Brazzaville lies at 15.3°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The two very nearly coincide: solar noon — the moment the sun is highest — falls at about 11:59, which is as close to true solar time as a zone this wide can get. The zone holds UTC+1 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 12h 22m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 11h 52m. The swing between them is 30 minutes. Within a few degrees of the equator the length of the day barely moves all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Brazzaville the sun comes up earliest on 9 November at 05:34, while the latest sunset waits until 6 February at 18:21. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Brazzaville that civil twilight runs about 21 minutes at the equinox.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo is Africa/Brazzaville with a current UTC offset of UTC+1.
Brazzaville has an estimated population of 2.1M and is located at coordinates 4.27°S, 15.28°E. It is the capital city of Republic of the Congo.
Brazzaville gets 12h 22m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 52m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Brazzaville falls at about 11:59 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 0.3° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Capitals Facing Each Other: Brazzaville and Kinshasa sit on opposite banks of the Congo, about 4 kilometres apart — the closest pair of capital cities in the world other than Rome and the Vatican.