Current time in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina right now
It is 9:21 pm in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦 right now, on Sunday, September 27, 2026. The city keeps Europe/Sarajevo, which is CEST at UTC+2, so Banja Luka is 2 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 7:21 pm. The sun rose in Banja Luka at 6:44 am and sets at 6:40 pm, which is 11 hours 55 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Banja Luka right now?
The time in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina is 9:21 pm, 21:21 on a 24 hour clock, on Sunday September 27, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Europe/Sarajevo rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Banja Luka sits at 44.78 degrees north and 17.21 degrees east, at a middle latitude and 4,979 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 30.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 12.8 degrees west of that line. Those 12.8 degrees are worth 51 minutes 10 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:42 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Banja Luka time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina is Europe/Sarajevo. Right now it is running at UTC+2 and the abbreviation in force is CEST. Banja Luka is on summer time at the moment, which is why the offset reads UTC+2 rather than the UTC+1 it keeps in winter.
Daylight hours in Banja Luka today
The sun rose in Banja Luka at 6:44 am and sets at 6:40 pm, which is 11 hours 55 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Banja Luka, is at 12:42 pm, which is 42 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.73 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 43.5 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Banja Luka |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 6:44 am |
| Sunset | 6:40 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:42 pm |
| Day length | 11 hours 55 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 6:01 pm to 6:57 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 7:09 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 Banja Luka, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Banja Luka 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 Banja Luka. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Banja Luka on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Banja Luka 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 Banja Luka.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Banja Luka |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 12:21 pm | -9 | 9 hours behind of Banja Luka |
| Chicago, Illinois | 2:21 pm | -7 | 7 hours behind of Banja Luka |
| New York, New York | 3:21 pm | -6 | 6 hours behind of Banja Luka |
| Toronto, Canada | 3:21 pm | -6 | 6 hours behind of Banja Luka |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 4:21 pm | -5 | 5 hours behind of Banja Luka |
| London, United Kingdom | 8:21 pm | -1 | 1 hour behind of Banja Luka |
| Paris, France | 9:21 pm | 0 | same time as Banja Luka |
| Berlin, Germany | 9:21 pm | 0 | same time as Banja Luka |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 9:21 pm | 0 | same time as Banja Luka |
| Moscow, Russia | 10:21 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Banja Luka |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 11:21 pm | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Banja Luka |
| Delhi, India | 12:51 am | +3:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes ahead of Banja Luka |
| Singapore, Singapore | 3:21 am | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Banja Luka |
| Hong Kong, China | 3:21 am | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Banja Luka |
| Tokyo, Japan | 4:21 am | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Banja Luka |
| Sydney, Australia | 5:21 am | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Banja Luka |
Best time to call Banja Luka
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 Banja Luka | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -6 | 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 12:00 pm |
| Los Angeles | -9 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| London | -1 | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm |
| Delhi | +3:30 | 9:00 am to 2:30 pm | 12:30 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Sydney | +8 | 9:00 am to 10:00 am | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
Other cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina
We cover 5 cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. These are the ones nearest to Banja Luka, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zenica | Federation of B&H | 9:21 pm | UTC+2 |
| Tuzla | Federation of B&H | 9:21 pm | UTC+2 |
| Sarajevo | Federation of B&H | 9:21 pm | UTC+2 |
| Mostar | Federation of B&H | 9:21 pm | UTC+2 |
Cities on Europe/Sarajevo time
5 of our cities keep Europe/Sarajevo, so every one of them reads 9:21 pm at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Banja Luka. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Banja Luka |
|---|---|---|
| Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 9:21 pm | 85 km |
| Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 9:21 pm | 119 km |
| Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 9:21 pm | 138 km |
| Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 9:21 pm | 167 km |
Moon phase over Banja Luka tonight
The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 16.7 days into its cycle and about 96% lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 at 5:11 am Sarajevo time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 5:49 pm. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Banja Luka clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Banja Luka
The next change is on Sunday, October 25, 2026, 27 days from now, when the clocks in Banja Luka go back 1 hour at 2:59 am and the offset moves from UTC+2 to UTC+1.
Two things follow from that. Any standing call with Banja Luka shifts by an hour on that date unless the other side moves the same weekend, and every offset printed on this page is the offset for today rather than a fixed property of the city.
How far Banja Luka is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Banja Luka is Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina at 85 km, and the furthest is Lower Hutt, New Zealand at 18,166 km, which is 91% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 85 | 53 | south east | 9:21 pm |
| Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 119 | 74 | east | 9:21 pm |
| Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 138 | 86 | south east | 9:21 pm |
| Zagreb, Croatia | 150 | 93 | north west | 9:21 pm |
| Split, Croatia | 154 | 96 | south west | 9:21 pm |
| Pecs, Hungary | 165 | 102 | north east | 9:21 pm |
| Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 167 | 104 | south | 9:21 pm |
| Novi Sad, Serbia | 213 | 133 | east | 9:21 pm |
| Rijeka, Croatia | 225 | 140 | west | 9:21 pm |
| Subotica, Serbia | 242 | 150 | north east | 9:21 pm |
The antipode of Banja Luka
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina and you come out at 44.78 degrees south, 162.79 degrees west. That point is in the South Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Lower Hutt, New Zealand, 1,849 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 8:21 am on Monday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 44.78 degrees north becomes 44.78 degrees south, and 17.21 degrees east becomes 162.79 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Banja Luka is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-10, roughly twelve hours from Banja Luka, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Banja Luka
Today the sun rises in Banja Luka at 6:44 am and sets at 6:40 pm, giving 11 hours 55 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 Banja Luka.
Hourly forecast for Banja Luka
The next 10 hours, in Banja Luka local time. Temperatures are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- 9 PM 13°C 56°F Partly cloudy 6 km/h
- 10 PM 13°C 55°F Partly cloudy 6 km/h
- 11 PM 12°C 53°F Partly cloudy 6 km/h
- 12 AM 11°C 53°F Clear sky 5 km/h
- 1 AM 11°C 52°F Clear sky 5 km/h
- 2 AM 11°C 51°F Clear sky 5 km/h
- 3 AM 10°C 50°F Clear sky 5 km/h
- 4 AM 10°C 49°F Clear sky 5 km/h
- 5 AM 9°C 49°F Clear sky 5 km/h
- 6 AM 9°C 48°F Clear sky 5 km/h
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
7-day forecast for Banja Luka
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 27 Sep | 21°C / 70°F | 8°C / 47°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Mon 28 Sep | 22°C / 71°F | 9°C / 48°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Tue 29 Sep | 22°C / 71°F | 9°C / 49°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Wed 30 Sep | 22°C / 71°F | 11°C / 52°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Thu 1 Oct | 22°C / 71°F | 10°C / 49°F | Cloudy | 0 mm |
| Fri 2 Oct | 21°C / 70°F | 10°C / 50°F | Partly cloudy | 0 mm |
| Sat 3 Oct | 19°C / 67°F | 9°C / 47°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in Banja Luka today
The sun is up in Banja Luka for 11 hours 55 minutes today, from 6:44 am to 6:40 pm. The moon sets in Banja Luka at 7:31 am and comes up again at 6:42 pm. The next phase is the last quarter on October 3, 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 Banja Luka |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:06 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:41 am |
| Civil dawn | 6:15 am |
| Sunrise | 6:44 am |
| Solar noon | 12:42 pm |
| Sunset | 6:40 pm |
| Civil dusk | 7:09 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 7:43 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 8:17 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 Banja Luka | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 6:15 am to 6:26 am | 0h 11m |
| Morning golden hour | 6:26 am to 7:23 am | 0h 57m |
| Evening golden hour | 6:01 pm to 6:57 pm | 0h 56m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:57 pm to 7:09 pm | 0h 11m |
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 Banja Luka |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:42 pm |
| Moonset | 7:31 am |
| Phase | waning gibbous, waning |
| Illumination | 99% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 16.3 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 376,800 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: Banja Luka and four other places
Every hour of Sunday, September 27, 2026 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, read across 4 other places. Columns are Banja Luka 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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| Banja Luka 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banja LukaCEST UTC+2 | 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 | 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 YorkEDT UTC-4 | 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 |
| LondonBST UTC+1 | 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 | 3:30 | 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 |
No hour on Sunday, September 27, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Los Angeles and Delhi are 12 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 Banja Luka it is working hours in Banja Luka, 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.
Prayer times in Banja Luka
Seven days from September 27, 2026, computed for Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina at 44.78 degrees north, 17.21 degrees east, on the clock of Europe/Sarajevo. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday September 27 | 5:06 am | 6:44 am | 12:42 pm | 4:01 pm | 6:40 pm | 8:11 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 5:07 am | 6:45 am | 12:42 pm | 3:59 pm | 6:38 pm | 8:09 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 5:09 am | 6:46 am | 12:42 pm | 3:58 pm | 6:36 pm | 8:07 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 5:10 am | 6:48 am | 12:41 pm | 3:57 pm | 6:34 pm | 8:06 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 5:11 am | 6:49 am | 12:41 pm | 3:55 pm | 6:32 pm | 8:04 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 5:13 am | 6:50 am | 12:41 pm | 3:54 pm | 6:30 pm | 8:02 pm |
| Saturday October 3 | 5:14 am | 6:51 am | 12:40 pm | 3:53 pm | 6:28 pm | 8:00 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 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 Banja Luka
From Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina the qibla is 134.0 degrees on a true compass, which is southeast, or 44.0 degrees south of due east. The Kaaba is 3,321 km away, 2,063 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina 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 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina 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 Banja Luka clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Europe/Sarajevo from the time zone database, so it stays right when Banja Luka changes its clocks, and it shows CEST 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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Banja Luka time now: common questions
- What time is it in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina right now?
- 9:21 pm on Sunday September 27, 2026. Banja Luka runs on CEST, UTC+2.
- What time zone is Banja Luka in?
- Europe/Sarajevo, currently CEST at UTC+2. 5 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Banja Luka?
- UTC+2 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+1 and UTC+2 across the year.
- Does Banja Luka observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. The next change is October 25, 2026, when the clocks go back.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Banja Luka of New York?
- Banja Luka is 6 hours ahead of New York, where it is 3:21 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Banja Luka today?
- 6:40 pm, after a sunrise at 6:44 am and 11 hours 55 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Banja Luka?
- 44.78 degrees south, 162.79 degrees west, in the South Pacific Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Banja Luka from London?
- Between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm in Banja Luka, which is 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in London.
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