Current time in Mbeya, Tanzania right now

It is 7:30 am in Mbeya, Tanzania 🇹🇿 right now, on Friday, November 6, 2026. The city keeps Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, which is UTC+3 at UTC+3, so Mbeya is 3 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 4:30 am. The sun rose in Mbeya at 6:16 am and sets at 6:44 pm, which is 12 hours 28 minutes of daylight.

What time is it in Mbeya right now?

The time in Mbeya, Tanzania is 7:30 am, 07:30 on a 24 hour clock, on Friday November 6, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Africa/Dar_es_Salaam rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.

Mbeya sits at 8.90 degrees south and 33.45 degrees east, inside the tropics, south of the equator and 990 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 45.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 11.5 degrees west of that line. Those 11.5 degrees are worth 46 minutes 12 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:30 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.

Mbeya time zone and UTC offset

The IANA zone for Mbeya, Tanzania is Africa/Dar_es_Salaam. Right now it is running at UTC+3 and the abbreviation in force is UTC+3. Mbeya does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC+3 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving Mbeya ever needs a seasonal footnote.

Daylight hours in Mbeya today

The sun rose in Mbeya at 6:16 am and sets at 6:44 pm, which is 12 hours 28 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Mbeya, is at 12:30 pm, which is 30 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -16.03 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 82.9 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.

The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Mbeya, which works from the same coordinates.

Where Mbeya is on the map

The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.

Time difference between Mbeya and major cities

Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Mbeya.

Best time to call Mbeya

Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.

Other cities in Tanzania

We cover 34 cities in Tanzania. These are the ones nearest to Mbeya, with the time on their clocks right now.

Cities on Africa/Dar_es_Salaam time

34 of our cities keep Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, so every one of them reads 7:30 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Mbeya. Nearest first:

Moon phase over Mbeya tonight

The moon is a waning crescent tonight, 26.5 days into its cycle and about 10% lit. The next full moon falls on November 24, 2026 at 5:53 pm Dar es Salaam time, and the next new moon on November 9, 2026 at 10:01 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Mbeya clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.

When the clocks change in Mbeya

There is no clock change scheduled in Africa/Dar_es_Salaam within the next 400 days, so Mbeya stays at UTC+3 for the whole of that stretch.

That makes Mbeya an easy city to schedule against: a meeting fixed at a given hour here holds its relationship to UTC all year, and only the other end of the call can move.

How far Mbeya is from other cities

Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Mbeya is Katumba, Tanzania at 41 km, and the furthest is Hilo, Hawaii at 18,501 km, which is 92% of the way to being exactly opposite.

The antipode of Mbeya

Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Mbeya, Tanzania and you come out at 8.90 degrees north, 146.55 degrees west. That point is in the North Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Hilo, Hawaii, 1,514 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 6:30 pm on Thursday.

The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 8.90 degrees south becomes 8.90 degrees north, and 33.45 degrees east becomes 146.55 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Mbeya is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-9, roughly twelve hours from Mbeya, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.

Sunrise and sunset in Mbeya

Today the sun rises in Mbeya at 6:16 am and sets at 6:44 pm, giving 12 hours 28 minutes of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Mbeya.

Sun and moon in Mbeya today

The sun is up in Mbeya for 12 hours 28 minutes today, from 6:16 am to 6:44 pm. The moon rises in Mbeya at 3:58 am and sets at 4:27 pm. The next phase is the new moon on November 9, 2026. It is 9% lit at the moment, a waning crescent, thinning by about 6.0 percentage points a day.

Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.

Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.

Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.

Prayer times in Mbeya

Seven days from November 6, 2026, computed for Mbeya, Tanzania at 8.90 degrees south, 33.45 degrees east, on the clock of Africa/Dar_es_Salaam. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.

Dhuhr is solar noon at Mbeya, Tanzania, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.

Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.

Qibla direction from Mbeya

From Mbeya, Tanzania the qibla is 11.6 degrees on a true compass, which is north-northeast, or 11.6 degrees east of due north. The Kaaba is 3,443 km away, 2,139 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Mbeya, Tanzania to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.

The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Mbeya, Tanzania before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.

Mbeya time now: common questions

What time is it in Mbeya, Tanzania right now?

7:30 am on Friday November 6, 2026. Mbeya runs on UTC+3, UTC+3.

What time zone is Mbeya in?

Africa/Dar_es_Salaam, currently UTC+3 at UTC+3. 34 of the cities on this site keep that zone.

What is the UTC offset for Mbeya?

UTC+3 at this instant. It is UTC+3 all year round, with no seasonal change.

Does Mbeya observe daylight saving time?

No. Mbeya stays on UTC+3 for the whole year.

How many hours ahead or behind is Mbeya of New York?

Mbeya is 8 hours ahead of New York, where it is 11:30 pm right now.

What time does the sun set in Mbeya today?

6:44 pm, after a sunrise at 6:16 am and 12 hours 28 minutes of daylight.

What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Mbeya?

8.90 degrees north, 146.55 degrees west, in the North Pacific Ocean.

When is the best time to call Mbeya from London?

Between 12:00 pm and 6:00 pm in Mbeya, which is 9:00 am to 3:00 pm in London.

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