| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −1h | Becomes −2h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | ±0h | Becomes −1h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +2h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +7h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +8h | Becomes +9h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −6h | Becomes −7h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −9h | Becomes −10h on 1 Nov |
Lilongwe, Malawi runs on UTC+2. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+2 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Lilongwe and New York is 6 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 15:00–18:00 in Lilongwe lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Lilongwe and London is 1 hour. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 8 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 10:00–18:00 in Lilongwe lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Lilongwe and Tokyo is 7 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–11:00 in Lilongwe lines up with 16:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Johannesburg, Windhoek, Cape Town. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Lilongwe.
Lilongwe (Malawi) is home to roughly 989K people. Today brings about 12.2 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:28, sunset at 17:41. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+2 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 14° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Malawi
Capital
Lilongwe 👑
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Africa/Blantyre
Coordinates
13.98°S, 33.79°E
Currency
MWK (MK)
Calling Code
+265
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
English, Chichewa
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Lake Malawi holds an estimated 700 to 1,000 cichlid species, more fish species than any other lake on Earth, and almost all of them are found nowhere else. It covers about a fifth of the country.
The clock: Lilongwe keeps UTC+2. It became capital in 1975, replacing Zomba, and was largely built with South African financing.
Lilongwe lies at 33.8°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 3.8° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 15 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:45 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+2 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 12h 57m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 11h 18m. The swing between them is 1h 39m. Inside the tropics the day length stays within a narrow band all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Lilongwe the sun comes up earliest on 21 November at 05:07, while the latest sunset waits until 24 January at 18:20. 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 Lilongwe 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 Lilongwe, Malawi is Africa/Blantyre with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Lilongwe has an estimated population of 989K and is located at coordinates 13.98°S, 33.79°E. It is the capital city of Malawi.
Lilongwe gets 12h 57m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 18m on its shortest, averaging 12h 6m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Lilongwe falls at about 11:45 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 3.8° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Lake With More Fish Species Than Any Other: Lake Malawi holds an estimated 700 to 1,000 cichlid species, more fish species than any other lake on Earth, and almost all of them are found nowhere else. It covers about a fifth of the country.