Current time in Bangui, Central African Republic right now
It is 5:59 pm in Bangui, Central African Republic 🇨🇫 right now, on Saturday, September 26, 2026. The city keeps Africa/Bangui, which is UTC+1 at UTC+1, so Bangui is 1 hour ahead of UTC, where it is 4:59 pm. The sun rose in Bangui at 5:34 am and sets at 5:40 pm, which is 12 hours 6 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Bangui right now?
The time in Bangui, Central African Republic is 5:59 pm, 17:59 on a 24 hour clock, on Saturday September 26, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Africa/Bangui rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Bangui sits at 4.36 degrees north and 18.55 degrees east, within eight degrees of the equator and 485 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 15.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 3.6 degrees east of that line. Those 3.6 degrees are worth 14 minutes 13 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 11:37 am rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Bangui time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Bangui, Central African Republic is Africa/Bangui. Right now it is running at UTC+1 and the abbreviation in force is UTC+1. Bangui does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC+1 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving Bangui ever needs a seasonal footnote.
Daylight hours in Bangui today
The sun rose in Bangui at 5:34 am and sets at 5:40 pm, which is 12 hours 6 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Bangui, is at 11:37 am, which is 23 minutes before clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.34 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 84.3 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Bangui |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 5:34 am |
| Sunset | 5:40 pm |
| Solar noon | 11:37 am |
| Day length | 12 hours 6 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 5:13 pm to 5:53 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 6:01 pm |
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 Bangui, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Bangui 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.
An interactive map of Bangui. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Bangui on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Bangui 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 Bangui.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Bangui |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 9:59 am | -8 | 8 hours behind of Bangui |
| Chicago, Illinois | 11:59 am | -6 | 6 hours behind of Bangui |
| New York, New York | 12:59 pm | -5 | 5 hours behind of Bangui |
| Toronto, Canada | 12:59 pm | -5 | 5 hours behind of Bangui |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 1:59 pm | -4 | 4 hours behind of Bangui |
| London, United Kingdom | 5:59 pm | 0 | same time as Bangui |
| Paris, France | 6:59 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Bangui |
| Berlin, Germany | 6:59 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Bangui |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 6:59 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Bangui |
| Moscow, Russia | 7:59 pm | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Bangui |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 8:59 pm | +3 | 3 hours ahead of Bangui |
| Delhi, India | 10:29 pm | +4:30 | 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of Bangui |
| Singapore, Singapore | 12:59 am | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Bangui |
| Hong Kong, China | 12:59 am | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Bangui |
| Tokyo, Japan | 1:59 am | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Bangui |
| Sydney, Australia | 2:59 am | +9 | 9 hours ahead of Bangui |
Best time to call Bangui
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.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Bangui | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -5 | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm |
| Los Angeles | -8 | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 10:00 am |
| London | 0 | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm |
| Delhi | +4:30 | 9:00 am to 1:30 pm | 1:30 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Sydney | +9 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
Other cities in Central African Republic
We cover 5 cities in Central African Republic. These are the ones nearest to Bangui, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Begoua | Ombella-M'Poko | 5:59 pm | UTC+1 |
| Bimbo | Ombella-M'Poko | 5:59 pm | UTC+1 |
| Carnot | Mambere | 5:59 pm | UTC+1 |
| Berberati | Mambere-Kadei | 5:59 pm | UTC+1 |
Cities on Africa/Bangui time
5 of our cities keep Africa/Bangui, so every one of them reads 5:59 pm at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Bangui. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Bangui |
|---|---|---|
| Begoua, Central African Republic | 5:59 pm | 11 km |
| Bimbo, Central African Republic | 5:59 pm | 19 km |
| Carnot, Central African Republic | 5:59 pm | 304 km |
| Berberati, Central African Republic | 5:59 pm | 307 km |
Moon phase over Bangui tonight
The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 15.6 days into its cycle and about 99% lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 at 5:11 am Bangui time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 4:49 pm. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Bangui clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Bangui
There is no clock change scheduled in Africa/Bangui within the next 400 days, so Bangui stays at UTC+1 for the whole of that stretch.
That makes Bangui 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 Bangui is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Bangui is Begoua, Central African Republic at 11 km, and the furthest is Suva, Fiji at 17,346 km, which is 87% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Begoua, Central African Republic | 11 | 7 | north | 5:59 pm |
| Bimbo, Central African Republic | 19 | 12 | south west | 5:59 pm |
| Gemena, DR Congo | 183 | 113 | south east | 5:59 pm |
| Carnot, Central African Republic | 304 | 189 | west | 5:59 pm |
| Berberati, Central African Republic | 307 | 190 | west | 5:59 pm |
| Lisala, DR Congo | 410 | 255 | south east | 5:59 pm |
| Mbandaka, DR Congo | 481 | 299 | south | 5:59 pm |
| Bumba, DR Congo | 497 | 309 | south east | 5:59 pm |
| Sarh, Chad | 532 | 331 | north | 5:59 pm |
| Bertoua, Cameroon | 540 | 336 | west | 5:59 pm |
The antipode of Bangui
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Bangui, Central African Republic and you come out at 4.36 degrees south, 161.45 degrees west. That point is in the South Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Suva, Fiji, 2,669 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 4:59 am on Sunday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 4.36 degrees north becomes 4.36 degrees south, and 18.56 degrees east becomes 161.45 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Bangui is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-11, roughly twelve hours from Bangui, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Bangui
Today the sun rises in Bangui at 5:34 am and sets at 5:40 pm, giving 12 hours 6 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 Bangui.
Weather in Bangui right now
28°C (82°F), partly cloudy
| Conditions | Partly cloudy |
|---|---|
| Wind | 8 km/h (5 mph) from the SSW, a light breeze |
| Humidity | 75% |
| Cloud cover | 84% |
| Pressure | 1008 hPa |
| Rain in the next hour | none forecast |
Reading taken 2 hours ago, local time 4 PM in Bangui.
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Hourly forecast for Bangui
The next 24 hours, in Bangui local time. Temperatures are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- 5 PM 27°C 80°F Light rain 12 km/h 0.1 mm
- 6 PM 25°C 76°F Cloudy 9 km/h
- 7 PM 24°C 75°F Light rain 6 km/h 0.1 mm
- 8 PM 23°C 74°F Cloudy 4 km/h
- 9 PM 24°C 74°F Rain 3 km/h 0.4 mm
- 10 PM 24°C 74°F Rain 3 km/h 0.4 mm
- 11 PM 23°C 74°F Light rain 4 km/h 0.2 mm
- 12 AM 23°C 74°F Light rain 5 km/h 0.2 mm
- 1 AM 23°C 73°F Light rain 5 km/h 0.1 mm
- 2 AM 23°C 73°F Light rain 3 km/h 0.1 mm
- 3 AM 23°C 73°F Cloudy 3 km/h
- 4 AM 23°C 73°F Cloudy 4 km/h
- 5 AM 23°C 73°F Cloudy 4 km/h
- 6 AM 23°C 73°F Cloudy 5 km/h
- 7 AM 24°C 75°F Cloudy 5 km/h
- 8 AM 25°C 77°F Light rain 6 km/h 0.2 mm
- 9 AM 26°C 79°F Rain 6 km/h 0.3 mm
- 10 AM 27°C 81°F Light rain 5 km/h 0.2 mm
- 11 AM 28°C 82°F Light rain 6 km/h 0.2 mm
- 12 PM 29°C 83°F Light rain 7 km/h 0.2 mm
- 1 PM 29°C 84°F Cloudy 8 km/h
- 2 PM 29°C 85°F Rain 6 km/h 0.5 mm
- 3 PM 27°C 81°F Rain showers 8 km/h 0.3 mm
- 4 PM 27°C 80°F Partly cloudy 7 km/h
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
7-day forecast for Bangui
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 26 Sep | 28°C / 82°F | 23°C / 74°F | Partly cloudy | 1.2 mm |
| Sun 27 Sep | 29°C / 85°F | 23°C / 73°F | Light rain | 2.3 mm |
| Mon 28 Sep | 28°C / 83°F | 23°C / 73°F | Cloudy | 5.7 mm |
| Tue 29 Sep | 29°C / 83°F | 22°C / 71°F | Cloudy | 11.9 mm |
| Wed 30 Sep | 28°C / 82°F | 22°C / 72°F | Cloudy | 9.3 mm |
| Thu 1 Oct | 30°C / 86°F | 23°C / 73°F | Partly cloudy | 0.1 mm |
| Fri 2 Oct | 29°C / 85°F | 23°C / 73°F | Fair | 10.1 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in Bangui today
The sun is up in Bangui for 12 hours 6 minutes today, from 5:34 am to 5:40 pm. The moon sets in Bangui at 5:09 am and comes up again at 5:31 pm. The next phase is the full moon on September 26, 2026. The moon is full, or as near to it as makes no difference, and the whole of the face turned towards us is lit.
| Sun | Time in Bangui |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 4:25 am |
| Nautical dawn | 4:49 am |
| Civil dawn | 5:14 am |
| Sunrise | 5:34 am |
| Solar noon | 11:37 am |
| Sunset | 5:40 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:01 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 6:25 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 6:49 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 Bangui | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 5:14 am to 5:22 am | 0h 08m |
| Morning golden hour | 5:22 am to 6:02 am | 0h 40m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:13 pm to 5:53 pm | 0h 40m |
| Evening blue hour | 5:53 pm to 6:01 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 Bangui |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 5:31 pm |
| Moonset | 5:09 am |
| Phase | full moon, waxing |
| Illumination | 100% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 15.3 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 380,400 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: Bangui and four other places
Every hour of Saturday, September 26, 2026 in Bangui, Central African Republic, read across 4 other places. Columns are Bangui 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.
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| Bangui 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BanguiUTC+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 AngelesPDT UTC-7 | 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 | 15 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 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 | 18 |
| 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 |
| SingaporeSGT UTC+8 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0+1 | 1+1 | 2+1 | 3+1 | 4+1 | 5+1 | 6+1 |
No hour on Saturday, September 26, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Los Angeles and Singapore are 15 hours apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 9:00 am in Bangui it is working hours in Bangui, Delhi and Singapore, but outside them in Los Angeles and New York. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Bangui
Seven days from September 26, 2026, computed for Bangui, Central African Republic at 4.36 degrees north, 18.55 degrees east, on the clock of Africa/Bangui. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday September 26 | 4:25 am | 5:34 am | 11:37 am | 2:47 pm | 5:40 pm | 6:45 pm |
| Sunday September 27 | 4:25 am | 5:34 am | 11:37 am | 2:47 pm | 5:40 pm | 6:44 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 4:25 am | 5:34 am | 11:36 am | 2:47 pm | 5:39 pm | 6:44 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 4:25 am | 5:34 am | 11:36 am | 2:47 pm | 5:39 pm | 6:43 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 4:24 am | 5:33 am | 11:36 am | 2:47 pm | 5:38 pm | 6:43 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 4:24 am | 5:33 am | 11:35 am | 2:48 pm | 5:38 pm | 6:43 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 4:24 am | 5:33 am | 11:35 am | 2:48 pm | 5:37 pm | 6:42 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Bangui, Central African Republic, 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 Bangui
From Bangui, Central African Republic the qibla is 48.6 degrees on a true compass, which is northeast, or 41.4 degrees north of due east. The Kaaba is 2,978 km away, 1,850 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Bangui, Central African Republic 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 Bangui, Central African Republic 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.
Put a Bangui clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Bangui, Central African Republic, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Africa/Bangui from the time zone database, so it stays right when Bangui changes its clocks, and it shows UTC+1 to every visitor wherever they are reading from. It is a plain iframe: no account, no script to install, nothing to pay.
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Bangui time now: common questions
- What time is it in Bangui, Central African Republic right now?
- 5:59 pm on Saturday September 26, 2026. Bangui runs on UTC+1, UTC+1.
- What time zone is Bangui in?
- Africa/Bangui, currently UTC+1 at UTC+1. 5 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Bangui?
- UTC+1 at this instant. It is UTC+1 all year round, with no seasonal change.
- Does Bangui observe daylight saving time?
- No. Bangui stays on UTC+1 for the whole year.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Bangui of New York?
- Bangui is 5 hours ahead of New York, where it is 12:59 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Bangui today?
- 5:40 pm, after a sunrise at 5:34 am and 12 hours 6 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Bangui?
- 4.36 degrees south, 161.45 degrees west, in the South Pacific Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Bangui from London?
- Between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm in Bangui, which is 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in London.
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