What time is it in DR Congo right now? 🇨🇩
It is 6:07 pm in Kinshasa right now, Thursday, November 5, 2026. DR Congo runs on UTC+1, and on one further zone besides. Every reading on this page is computed from the IANA time zone database at the moment you loaded it, and the clocks above and below tick on from there.
Time in DR Congo now
DR Congo spans 2 different clock readings across 2 IANA zones, 1 hour apart from end to end. When it is 6:07 pm in Kinshasa it is already 7:07 pm in Lubumbashi, so "the time in DR Congo" is a question that needs a region attached to it.
The offset from UTC in Kinshasa is UTC+1, which is 1 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Nine in the morning in Kinshasa is 8:00 am UTC.
DR Congo time zones in full
Each row is a zone identifier from the IANA database, its reading at this instant, its offset from UTC and whether it is currently on standard or summer time. They do not all agree: the spread across DR Congo is 1 hour.
| Time zone | Time now | UTC offset | Abbreviation | Daylight saving |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Africa/Kinshasa | 6:07 pm | UTC+1 | UTC+1 | never moves |
Africa/Lubumbashi | 7:07 pm | UTC+2 | UTC+2 | never moves |
Does DR Congo have daylight saving time?
No part of DR Congo moves its clocks. The offset stays at UTC+1 through the whole year, which means a difference worked out today against DR Congo is still right in six months. Most of the world now works this way; the daylight saving habit is concentrated in Europe, North America and a short list of others.
A fixed offset makes DR Congo an easy place to schedule against, with one caveat: the country at the other end of the call may still be moving its clocks, so the gap can change even though nothing changed here. The windows further down this page are worked out at the current instant for exactly that reason.
Where DR Congo is on the map
The marker is on Kinshasa, the point every sun reading and every call window on this page is worked out from.
An interactive map of Kinshasa. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Kinshasa on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Kinshasa and major cities
Worked out at this instant rather than from a stored table, so daylight saving on either side is already in it.
| City | Time there now | Difference from Kinshasa |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, CA | 9:07 am | 9 hours behind Kinshasa |
| Chicago, IL | 11:07 am | 7 hours behind Kinshasa |
| New York, NY | 12:07 pm | 6 hours behind Kinshasa |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 2:07 pm | 4 hours behind Kinshasa |
| London, United Kingdom | 5:07 pm | 1 hour behind Kinshasa |
| Paris, France | 6:07 pm | the same time |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 7:07 pm | 1 hour ahead of Kinshasa |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 9:07 pm | 3 hours ahead of Kinshasa |
| Delhi, India | 10:37 pm | 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of Kinshasa |
| Singapore, Singapore | 1:07 am | 7 hours ahead of Kinshasa |
| Tokyo, Japan | 2:07 am | 8 hours ahead of Kinshasa |
| Sydney, Australia | 4:07 am | 10 hours ahead of Kinshasa |
Best time to call DR Congo
A nine to five working day in Kinshasa against a nine to five day elsewhere. The overlap column is the stretch when both desks are open, given on each side's own clock.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Kinshasa | Window there |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York the US East Coast | 6 hours ahead | 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm | 9:00 am to 11:00 am |
| Los Angeles the US West Coast | 9 hours ahead | no shared working hours | try either side of the working day |
| London the United Kingdom | 1 hour ahead | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm |
| Mumbai India | 4 hours 30 minutes behind | 9:00 am to 12:30 pm | 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm |
Daylight hours in Kinshasa today
In Kinshasa the sun rose at 5:34 am today and sets at 5:51 pm, giving 12 hours 17 minutes of daylight. The capital is holding 13 seconds of daylight a day at the moment, and the sun stands highest at 11:42 am.
Solar noon in Kinshasa is 11:42 am, which is 18 minutes before clock noon. That gap is the capital sitting at 15.27 degrees east while its clock is set to Africa/Kinshasa, plus the equation of time, which today runs 16.5 minutes ahead of mean time.
Moon phase over Kinshasa tonight
The moon is waning crescent tonight, 26.1 days into the current lunation, with roughly 13 percent of the disc lit. The next full moon falls on November 24, 2026 as DR Congo reads the date, at 3:53 pm local. The moon phase page has the full cycle.
Current time in DR Congo cities
The 38 cities this site covers inside DR Congo, alphabetically, each with its own ticking clock and its own sunrise page.
Every IANA time zone in DR Congo
These are the identifiers a computer uses. A program that stores Africa/Kinshasa rather than UTC+1 keeps working through every future rule change, which is the whole reason the database is keyed this way.
Convert DR Congo time to another zone
The converter pages below take UTC+1 against the zones people most often measure it from. Each one carries a full conversion table rather than a single answer.
Information about DR Congo
DR Congo sits in Africa, carries the ISO country code CD and a population of about 102,260,000. Its capital Kinshasa is at 4.44 degrees south, 15.27 degrees east, which is the coordinate every sunrise and solar noon on this page is computed from.
Upcoming dates in DR Congo
Read on DR Congo's own clock, so the day counts below start from November 5 and not from a UTC date. The list is the internationally observed calendar plus the dates common across Africa, along with this country's own clock changes and the next solstices and equinoxes. National days set by a country's own statute are not included, because this site carries no statute table and a guessed one would be worse than an honest gap.
| Date | Day | What falls on it | Days away |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 21, 2026 | Monday | December solstice, 9:50 pm local astronomical | 46 |
| December 25, 2026 | Friday | Christmas Day observed widely | 50 |
| December 31, 2026 | Thursday | New Year's Eve observance | 56 |
| January 1, 2027 | Friday | New Year's Day observed almost everywhere | 57 |
| March 20, 2027 | Saturday | March equinox, 9:24 pm local astronomical | 135 |
| May 1, 2027 | Saturday | International Workers' Day public holiday in most countries | 177 |
| June 21, 2027 | Monday | June solstice, 3:10 pm local astronomical | 228 |
| September 23, 2027 | Thursday | September equinox, 7:01 am local astronomical | 322 |
| December 22, 2027 | Wednesday | December solstice, 3:42 am local astronomical | 412 |
| December 25, 2027 | Saturday | Christmas Day observed widely | 415 |
Sun and moon in Kinshasa today
The sun is up in Kinshasa for 12 hours 17 minutes today, from 5:34 am to 5:51 pm. The moon rises in Kinshasa at 2:33 am and sets at 2:54 pm. The next phase is the new moon on November 9, 2026. It is 15% lit at the moment, a waning crescent, thinning by about 7.5 percentage points a day.
| Sun | Time in Kinshasa |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 4:22 am |
| Nautical dawn | 4:47 am |
| Civil dawn | 5:12 am |
| Sunrise | 5:34 am |
| Solar noon | 11:42 am |
| Sunset | 5:51 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:13 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 6:38 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:03 pm |
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.
| Light band | Time in Kinshasa | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 5:12 am to 5:21 am | 0h 08m |
| Morning golden hour | 5:21 am to 6:02 am | 0h 42m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:23 pm to 6:04 pm | 0h 42m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:04 pm to 6:13 pm | 0h 08m |
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.
| Moon | Reading in Kinshasa |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 2:33 am |
| Moonset | 2:54 pm |
| Phase | waning crescent, waning |
| Illumination | 15% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 25.8 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 385,200 km |
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.
Meeting planner: DR Congo and four other places
Every hour of Thursday, November 5, 2026 in DR Congo, read across 4 other places. Columns are DR Congo local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
Change the places or the date
| DR Congo local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DR CongoUTC+1 UTC+1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPST UTC-8 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| New YorkEST UTC-5 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| LondonGMT UTC+0 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 4:30 | 5:30 | 6:30 | 7:30 | 8:30 | 9:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 22:30 | 23:30 | 0:30+1 | 1:30+1 | 2:30+1 | 3:30+1 |
No hour on Thursday, November 5, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Los Angeles and Delhi are 13 hours 30 minutes apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 10:00 am in DR Congo it is working hours in DR Congo, London and Delhi, but outside them in Los Angeles and New York. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
DR Congo spans 2 time zones, so the clock shown is Kinshasa.
Prayer times in Kinshasa
Seven days from November 5, 2026, computed for Kinshasa at 4.44 degrees south, 15.27 degrees east, on the clock of Africa/Kinshasa. 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.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday November 5 | 4:22 am | 5:34 am | 11:42 am | 3:02 pm | 5:51 pm | 6:59 pm |
| Friday November 6 | 4:22 am | 5:34 am | 11:43 am | 3:02 pm | 5:51 pm | 6:59 pm |
| Saturday November 7 | 4:22 am | 5:34 am | 11:43 am | 3:03 pm | 5:51 pm | 6:59 pm |
| Sunday November 8 | 4:22 am | 5:34 am | 11:43 am | 3:03 pm | 5:51 pm | 7:00 pm |
| Monday November 9 | 4:21 am | 5:34 am | 11:43 am | 3:03 pm | 5:52 pm | 7:00 pm |
| Tuesday November 10 | 4:21 am | 5:34 am | 11:43 am | 3:04 pm | 5:52 pm | 7:00 pm |
| Wednesday November 11 | 4:21 am | 5:34 am | 11:43 am | 3:04 pm | 5:52 pm | 7:01 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Kinshasa, 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 Kinshasa
From Kinshasa the qibla is 42.0 degrees on a true compass, which is northeast, or 42.0 degrees east of due north. The Kaaba is 3,928 km away, 2,441 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Kinshasa 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 Kinshasa 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.
Questions about the time in DR Congo
- What time is it in DR Congo right now?
- It is 6:07 pm in Kinshasa as this page was served, Thursday, November 5, 2026. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.
- What time zone is DR Congo in?
- DR Congo uses 2 zones, from UTC+1 to UTC+2. The capital Kinshasa is on Africa/Kinshasa at UTC+1.
- What is the UTC offset in DR Congo?
- UTC+1 in Kinshasa at this instant, and between UTC+1 and UTC+2 across the whole country.
- Does DR Congo observe daylight saving time?
- No. DR Congo stays on UTC+1 all year and does not move its clocks.
- What time does the sun set in Kinshasa today?
- 5:51 pm, after a sunrise at 5:34 am and 12 hours 17 minutes of daylight.
- When is the best time to call DR Congo from the United States?
- Between 9:00 am and 11:00 am New York time, which is 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm in Kinshasa.
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