| 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 |
Maun, Botswana runs on UTC+2. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+2 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Maun 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 Maun lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Maun 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 Maun lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Maun 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 Maun 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 Maun.
Maun (Botswana) is home to roughly 60K people. Today brings about 12.3 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:08, sunset at 18:24. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+2 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 20° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Botswana
Capital
Gaborone
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Africa/Gaborone
Coordinates
19.99°S, 23.42°E
Currency
BWP (P)
Calling Code
+267
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
English, Tswana
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Okavango flows inland from Angola and evaporates into the Kalahari, creating a wetland of about 15,000 square kilometres in the middle of a desert. The flood arrives in Maun months after the rain that caused it fell, 1,000 km upstream.
The clock: Maun keeps UTC+2. The delta was listed by UNESCO in 2014 as its 1,000th World Heritage site.
Maun lies at 23.4°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 6.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 26 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:26 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 13h 20m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 10h 55m. The swing between them is 2h 25m. 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 Maun the sun comes up earliest on 27 November at 05:38, while the latest sunset waits until 18 January at 19:11. 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 Maun that civil twilight runs about 22 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 Maun, Botswana is Africa/Gaborone with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Maun has an estimated population of 60K and is located at coordinates 19.99°S, 23.42°E.
Maun gets 13h 20m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 55m on its shortest, averaging 12h 6m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Maun falls at about 12:26 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 6.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A River That Never Reaches the Sea: The Okavango flows inland from Angola and evaporates into the Kalahari, creating a wetland of about 15,000 square kilometres in the middle of a desert.