| 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 |
Pointe-Noire, 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 Pointe-Noire 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 Pointe-Noire lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Pointe-Noire 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 Pointe-Noire lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Pointe-Noire 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 Pointe-Noire 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 Pointe-Noire.
Pointe-Noire (Republic of the Congo) is home to roughly 1.1M people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:58, sunset at 18:06. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 5° 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
4.80°S, 11.85°E
Currency
XAF (FCFA)
Calling Code
+242
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Congo–Ocean Railway from Pointe-Noire to Brazzaville, built 1921–1934, cost the lives of an estimated 17,000 forced labourers over 502 kilometres. It remains the country's main freight link.
The clock: Pointe-Noire keeps UTC+1 and handles almost all of the Republic of the Congo's oil exports.
Pointe-Noire lies at 11.9°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 3.1° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 13 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:13 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+1 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 12h 24m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 11h 51m. The swing between them is 33 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 Pointe-Noire the sun comes up earliest on 10 November at 05:47, while the latest sunset waits until 5 February at 18:35. 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 Pointe-Noire 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 Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo is Africa/Brazzaville with a current UTC offset of UTC+1.
Pointe-Noire has an estimated population of 1.1M and is located at coordinates 4.80°S, 11.85°E.
Pointe-Noire gets 12h 24m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 51m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Pointe-Noire falls at about 12:13 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 3.1° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Railway Through the Mountains: The Congo–Ocean Railway from Pointe-Noire to Brazzaville, built 1921–1934, cost the lives of an estimated 17,000 forced labourers over 502 kilometres. It remains the country's main freight link.