Current time in Blantyre, Malawi right now
It is 4:46 am in Blantyre, Malawi 🇲🇼 right now, on Sunday, September 27, 2026. The city keeps Africa/Blantyre, which is UTC+2 at UTC+2, so Blantyre is 2 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 2:46 am. The sun rose in Blantyre at 5:26 am and sets at 5:36 pm, which is 12 hours 11 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Blantyre right now?
The time in Blantyre, Malawi is 4:46 am, 04:46 on a 24 hour clock, on Sunday September 27, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Africa/Blantyre rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Blantyre sits at 15.79 degrees south and 35.01 degrees east, inside the tropics, south of the equator and 1,755 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 30.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 5.0 degrees east of that line. Those 5.0 degrees are worth 20 minutes 2 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 11:31 am rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Blantyre time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Blantyre, Malawi is Africa/Blantyre. Right now it is running at UTC+2 and the abbreviation in force is UTC+2. Blantyre does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC+2 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving Blantyre ever needs a seasonal footnote.
Daylight hours in Blantyre today
The sun rose in Blantyre at 5:26 am and sets at 5:36 pm, which is 12 hours 11 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Blantyre, is at 11:31 am, which is 29 minutes before clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.71 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 75.9 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the north.
| Reading | Time in Blantyre |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 5:26 am |
| Sunset | 5:36 pm |
| Solar noon | 11:31 am |
| Day length | 12 hours 11 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 5:08 pm to 5:50 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 5:58 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 Blantyre, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Blantyre 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 Blantyre. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Blantyre on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Blantyre 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 Blantyre.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Blantyre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 7:46 pm | -9 | 9 hours behind of Blantyre |
| Chicago, Illinois | 9:46 pm | -7 | 7 hours behind of Blantyre |
| New York, New York | 10:46 pm | -6 | 6 hours behind of Blantyre |
| Toronto, Canada | 10:46 pm | -6 | 6 hours behind of Blantyre |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 11:46 pm | -5 | 5 hours behind of Blantyre |
| London, United Kingdom | 3:46 am | -1 | 1 hour behind of Blantyre |
| Paris, France | 4:46 am | 0 | same time as Blantyre |
| Berlin, Germany | 4:46 am | 0 | same time as Blantyre |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 4:46 am | 0 | same time as Blantyre |
| Moscow, Russia | 5:46 am | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Blantyre |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 6:46 am | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Blantyre |
| Delhi, India | 8:16 am | +3:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes ahead of Blantyre |
| Singapore, Singapore | 10:46 am | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Blantyre |
| Hong Kong, China | 10:46 am | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Blantyre |
| Tokyo, Japan | 11:46 am | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Blantyre |
| Sydney, Australia | 12:46 pm | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Blantyre |
Best time to call Blantyre
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 Blantyre | 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 Malawi
We cover 4 cities in Malawi. These are the ones nearest to Blantyre, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zomba | Southern Region | 4:46 am | UTC+2 |
| Lilongwe | Central Region | 4:46 am | UTC+2 |
| Mzuzu | Northern Region | 4:46 am | UTC+2 |
Cities on Africa/Blantyre time
4 of our cities keep Africa/Blantyre, so every one of them reads 4:46 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Blantyre. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Blantyre |
|---|---|---|
| Zomba, Malawi | 4:46 am | 55 km |
| Lilongwe, Malawi | 4:46 am | 241 km |
| Mzuzu, Malawi | 4:46 am | 492 km |
Moon phase over Blantyre tonight
The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 16.0 days into its cycle and about 98% lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 at 6:11 am Blantyre 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 Blantyre clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Blantyre
There is no clock change scheduled in Africa/Blantyre within the next 400 days, so Blantyre stays at UTC+2 for the whole of that stretch.
That makes Blantyre 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 Blantyre is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Blantyre is Zomba, Malawi at 55 km, and the furthest is Hilo, Hawaii at 18,860 km, which is 94% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zomba, Malawi | 55 | 34 | north east | 4:46 am |
| Tete, Mozambique | 158 | 98 | west | 4:46 am |
| Mandimba, Mozambique | 174 | 108 | north east | 4:46 am |
| Gurue, Mozambique | 214 | 133 | east | 4:46 am |
| Lilongwe, Malawi | 241 | 150 | north west | 4:46 am |
| Mocuba, Mozambique | 241 | 150 | south east | 4:46 am |
| Lichinga, Mozambique | 276 | 172 | north | 4:46 am |
| Quelimane, Mozambique | 307 | 191 | south east | 4:46 am |
| Chipata, Zambia | 349 | 217 | north west | 4:46 am |
| Chimoio, Mozambique | 404 | 251 | south west | 4:46 am |
The antipode of Blantyre
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Blantyre, Malawi and you come out at 15.79 degrees north, 144.99 degrees west. That point is in the North Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Hilo, Hawaii, 1,155 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 4:46 pm on Saturday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 15.79 degrees south becomes 15.79 degrees north, and 35.01 degrees east becomes 144.99 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Blantyre is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-10, roughly twelve hours from Blantyre, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Blantyre
Today the sun rises in Blantyre at 5:26 am and sets at 5:36 pm, giving 12 hours 11 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 Blantyre.
Hourly forecast for Blantyre
The next 16 hours, in Blantyre local time. Temperatures are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- 4 AM 20°C 69°F Clear sky 16 km/h
- 5 AM 20°C 68°F Clear sky 16 km/h
- 6 AM 20°C 69°F Clear sky 16 km/h
- 7 AM 23°C 73°F Clear sky 15 km/h
- 8 AM 25°C 76°F Clear sky 16 km/h
- 9 AM 27°C 80°F Clear sky 17 km/h
- 10 AM 28°C 83°F Clear sky 18 km/h
- 11 AM 30°C 85°F Fair 17 km/h
- 12 PM 30°C 87°F Fair 14 km/h
- 1 PM 31°C 88°F Clear sky 11 km/h
- 2 PM 31°C 89°F Fair 8 km/h
- 3 PM 31°C 88°F Fair 10 km/h
- 4 PM 31°C 87°F Partly cloudy 12 km/h
- 5 PM 29°C 84°F Fair 15 km/h
- 6 PM 27°C 80°F Clear sky 13 km/h
- 7 PM 26°C 79°F Clear sky 14 km/h
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
7-day forecast for Blantyre
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 26 Sep | 26°C / 78°F | 21°C / 70°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Sun 27 Sep | 31°C / 89°F | 20°C / 68°F | Fair | 0 mm |
| Mon 28 Sep | 32°C / 90°F | 22°C / 71°F | Fair | 2.2 mm |
| Tue 29 Sep | 24°C / 76°F | 20°C / 67°F | Rain showers | 10.6 mm |
| Wed 30 Sep | 22°C / 72°F | 18°C / 64°F | Heavy rain showers | 13.1 mm |
| Thu 1 Oct | 20°C / 67°F | 16°C / 61°F | Light rain | 3.1 mm |
| Fri 2 Oct | 20°C / 67°F | 16°C / 60°F | Heavy rain | 16.3 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in Blantyre today
The sun is up in Blantyre for 12 hours 11 minutes today, from 5:26 am to 5:36 pm. The moon sets in Blantyre at 5:38 am and comes up again at 6:23 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 Blantyre |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 4:14 am |
| Nautical dawn | 4:39 am |
| Civil dawn | 5:04 am |
| Sunrise | 5:26 am |
| Solar noon | 11:31 am |
| Sunset | 5:36 pm |
| Civil dusk | 5:58 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 6:23 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 6:48 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 Blantyre | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 5:04 am to 5:13 am | 0h 08m |
| Morning golden hour | 5:13 am to 5:54 am | 0h 42m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:08 pm to 5:50 pm | 0h 42m |
| Evening blue hour | 5:50 pm to 5:58 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 Blantyre |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:23 pm |
| Moonset | 5:38 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: Blantyre and four other places
Every hour of Sunday, September 27, 2026 in Blantyre, Malawi, read across 4 other places. Columns are Blantyre 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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| Blantyre 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BlantyreUTC+2 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 Blantyre it is working hours in Blantyre, 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 Blantyre
Seven days from September 27, 2026, computed for Blantyre, Malawi at 15.79 degrees south, 35.01 degrees east, on the clock of Africa/Blantyre. 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 | 4:14 am | 5:26 am | 11:31 am | 2:52 pm | 5:36 pm | 6:44 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 4:13 am | 5:25 am | 11:31 am | 2:51 pm | 5:37 pm | 6:44 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 4:13 am | 5:24 am | 11:30 am | 2:51 pm | 5:37 pm | 6:44 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 4:12 am | 5:23 am | 11:30 am | 2:50 pm | 5:37 pm | 6:44 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 4:11 am | 5:23 am | 11:30 am | 2:50 pm | 5:37 pm | 6:44 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 4:10 am | 5:22 am | 11:29 am | 2:49 pm | 5:37 pm | 6:45 pm |
| Saturday October 3 | 4:09 am | 5:21 am | 11:29 am | 2:48 pm | 5:37 pm | 6:45 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Blantyre, Malawi, 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 Blantyre
From Blantyre, Malawi the qibla is 7.4 degrees on a true compass, which is north, or 7.4 degrees east of due north. The Kaaba is 4,171 km away, 2,591 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Blantyre, Malawi 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 Blantyre, Malawi 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 Blantyre clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Blantyre, Malawi, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Africa/Blantyre from the time zone database, so it stays right when Blantyre changes its clocks, and it shows UTC+2 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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Blantyre time now: common questions
- What time is it in Blantyre, Malawi right now?
- 4:46 am on Sunday September 27, 2026. Blantyre runs on UTC+2, UTC+2.
- What time zone is Blantyre in?
- Africa/Blantyre, currently UTC+2 at UTC+2. 4 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Blantyre?
- UTC+2 at this instant. It is UTC+2 all year round, with no seasonal change.
- Does Blantyre observe daylight saving time?
- No. Blantyre stays on UTC+2 for the whole year.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Blantyre of New York?
- Blantyre is 6 hours ahead of New York, where it is 10:46 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Blantyre today?
- 5:36 pm, after a sunrise at 5:26 am and 12 hours 11 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Blantyre?
- 15.79 degrees north, 144.99 degrees west, in the North Pacific Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Blantyre from London?
- Between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm in Blantyre, which is 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in London.
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