Current time in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo right now
It is 3:24 pm in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo 🇨🇬 right now, on Sunday, September 27, 2026. The city keeps Africa/Brazzaville, which is UTC+1 at UTC+1, so Pointe-Noire is 1 hour ahead of UTC, where it is 2:24 pm. The sun rose in Pointe-Noire at 6:00 am and sets at 6:07 pm, which is 12 hours 8 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Pointe-Noire right now?
The time in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo is 3:24 pm, 15:24 on a 24 hour clock, on Sunday September 27, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Africa/Brazzaville rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Pointe-Noire sits at 4.78 degrees south and 11.86 degrees east, within eight degrees of the equator and 531 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 15.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 3.1 degrees west of that line. Those 3.1 degrees are worth 12 minutes 33 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:04 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Pointe-Noire time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo is Africa/Brazzaville. Right now it is running at UTC+1 and the abbreviation in force is UTC+1. Pointe-Noire 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 Pointe-Noire ever needs a seasonal footnote.
Daylight hours in Pointe-Noire today
The sun rose in Pointe-Noire at 6:00 am and sets at 6:07 pm, which is 12 hours 8 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Pointe-Noire, is at 12:04 pm, which is 4 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.73 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 87.0 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the north.
| Reading | Time in Pointe-Noire |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 6:00 am |
| Sunset | 6:07 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:04 pm |
| Day length | 12 hours 8 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 5:40 pm to 6:20 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 6:28 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 Pointe-Noire, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Pointe-Noire 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 Pointe-Noire. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Pointe-Noire on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Pointe-Noire 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 Pointe-Noire.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Pointe-Noire |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 7:24 am | -8 | 8 hours behind of Pointe-Noire |
| Chicago, Illinois | 9:24 am | -6 | 6 hours behind of Pointe-Noire |
| New York, New York | 10:24 am | -5 | 5 hours behind of Pointe-Noire |
| Toronto, Canada | 10:24 am | -5 | 5 hours behind of Pointe-Noire |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 11:24 am | -4 | 4 hours behind of Pointe-Noire |
| London, United Kingdom | 3:24 pm | 0 | same time as Pointe-Noire |
| Paris, France | 4:24 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Pointe-Noire |
| Berlin, Germany | 4:24 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Pointe-Noire |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 4:24 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Pointe-Noire |
| Moscow, Russia | 5:24 pm | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Pointe-Noire |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 6:24 pm | +3 | 3 hours ahead of Pointe-Noire |
| Delhi, India | 7:54 pm | +4:30 | 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of Pointe-Noire |
| Singapore, Singapore | 10:24 pm | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Pointe-Noire |
| Hong Kong, China | 10:24 pm | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Pointe-Noire |
| Tokyo, Japan | 11:24 pm | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Pointe-Noire |
| Sydney, Australia | 12:24 am | +9 | 9 hours ahead of Pointe-Noire |
Best time to call Pointe-Noire
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 Pointe-Noire | 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 Republic of the Congo
We cover 4 cities in Republic of the Congo. These are the ones nearest to Pointe-Noire, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolisie | Niari | 3:24 pm | UTC+1 |
| Nkayi | Bouenza | 3:24 pm | UTC+1 |
| Brazzaville | Brazzaville | 3:24 pm | UTC+1 |
Cities on Africa/Brazzaville time
4 of our cities keep Africa/Brazzaville, so every one of them reads 3:24 pm at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Pointe-Noire. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Pointe-Noire |
|---|---|---|
| Dolisie, Republic of the Congo | 3:24 pm | 110 km |
| Nkayi, Republic of the Congo | 3:24 pm | 171 km |
| Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo | 3:24 pm | 383 km |
Moon phase over Pointe-Noire tonight
The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 16.5 days into its cycle and about 97% lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 at 5:11 am Brazzaville 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 Pointe-Noire clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Pointe-Noire
There is no clock change scheduled in Africa/Brazzaville within the next 400 days, so Pointe-Noire stays at UTC+1 for the whole of that stretch.
That makes Pointe-Noire 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 Pointe-Noire is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Pointe-Noire is Cabinda, Angola at 95 km, and the furthest is Honolulu, Hawaii at 17,868 km, which is 89% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cabinda, Angola | 95 | 59 | south east | 3:24 pm |
| Dolisie, Republic of the Congo | 110 | 68 | north east | 3:24 pm |
| Moanda, DR Congo | 140 | 87 | south east | 3:24 pm |
| Soyo, Angola | 161 | 100 | south | 3:24 pm |
| Nkayi, Republic of the Congo | 171 | 106 | north east | 3:24 pm |
| Boma, DR Congo | 178 | 111 | south east | 3:24 pm |
| Matadi, DR Congo | 213 | 132 | south east | 3:24 pm |
| Mbanza Kongo, Angola | 311 | 193 | south east | 3:24 pm |
| Mbanza-Ngungu, DR Congo | 336 | 209 | east | 3:24 pm |
| Inkisi, DR Congo | 356 | 221 | east | 3:24 pm |
The antipode of Pointe-Noire
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo and you come out at 4.78 degrees north, 168.14 degrees west. That point is in the North Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Honolulu, Hawaii, 2,147 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 4:24 am on Sunday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 4.78 degrees south becomes 4.78 degrees north, and 11.86 degrees east becomes 168.14 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Pointe-Noire is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-11, roughly twelve hours from Pointe-Noire, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Pointe-Noire
Today the sun rises in Pointe-Noire at 6:00 am and sets at 6:07 pm, giving 12 hours 8 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 Pointe-Noire.
Hourly forecast for Pointe-Noire
The next 15 hours, in Pointe-Noire local time. Temperatures are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- 3 PM 24°C 76°F Partly cloudy 13 km/h
- 4 PM 24°C 75°F Partly cloudy 14 km/h
- 5 PM 24°C 74°F Partly cloudy 15 km/h
- 6 PM 23°C 74°F Cloudy 17 km/h
- 7 PM 23°C 74°F Cloudy 15 km/h
- 8 PM 23°C 74°F Cloudy 15 km/h
- 9 PM 23°C 74°F Light rain 15 km/h 0.1 mm
- 10 PM 23°C 73°F Light rain 15 km/h 0.1 mm
- 11 PM 23°C 73°F Cloudy 14 km/h
- 12 AM 23°C 73°F Cloudy 13 km/h
- 1 AM 23°C 73°F Cloudy 12 km/h
- 2 AM 23°C 73°F Cloudy 13 km/h
- 3 AM 23°C 73°F Cloudy 11 km/h
- 4 AM 23°C 73°F Cloudy 10 km/h
- 5 AM 23°C 73°F Cloudy 9 km/h
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
7-day forecast for Pointe-Noire
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 27 Sep | 25°C / 77°F | 22°C / 71°F | Cloudy | 0.2 mm |
| Mon 28 Sep | 25°C / 77°F | 23°C / 73°F | Cloudy | 0.3 mm |
| Tue 29 Sep | 25°C / 77°F | 23°C / 73°F | Cloudy | 0 mm |
| Wed 30 Sep | 26°C / 79°F | 23°C / 74°F | Cloudy | 1.2 mm |
| Thu 1 Oct | 26°C / 79°F | 23°C / 74°F | Partly cloudy | 2.3 mm |
| Fri 2 Oct | 26°C / 78°F | 23°C / 74°F | Cloudy | 1.5 mm |
| Sat 3 Oct | 26°C / 78°F | 23°C / 74°F | Partly cloudy | 1.9 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in Pointe-Noire today
The sun is up in Pointe-Noire for 12 hours 8 minutes today, from 6:00 am to 6:07 pm. The moon sets in Pointe-Noire at 6:19 am and comes up again at 6:51 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 Pointe-Noire |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 4:51 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:15 am |
| Civil dawn | 5:39 am |
| Sunrise | 6:00 am |
| Solar noon | 12:04 pm |
| Sunset | 6:07 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:28 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 6:52 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:16 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 Pointe-Noire | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 5:39 am to 5:47 am | 0h 08m |
| Morning golden hour | 5:47 am to 6:27 am | 0h 40m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:40 pm to 6:20 pm | 0h 40m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:20 pm to 6:28 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 Pointe-Noire |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:51 pm |
| Moonset | 6:19 am |
| Phase | waning gibbous, waning |
| Illumination | 99% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 16.3 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 376,600 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: Pointe-Noire and four other places
Every hour of Sunday, September 27, 2026 in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo, read across 4 other places. Columns are Pointe-Noire 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
| Pointe-Noire 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointe-NoireUTC+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 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 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 Pointe-Noire it is working hours in Pointe-Noire, 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 Pointe-Noire
Seven days from September 27, 2026, computed for Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo at 4.78 degrees south, 11.86 degrees east, on the clock of Africa/Brazzaville. 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 | 4:51 am | 6:00 am | 12:04 pm | 3:09 pm | 6:07 pm | 7:12 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 4:50 am | 5:59 am | 12:03 pm | 3:08 pm | 6:07 pm | 7:12 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 4:50 am | 5:59 am | 12:03 pm | 3:07 pm | 6:07 pm | 7:12 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 4:49 am | 5:58 am | 12:03 pm | 3:06 pm | 6:07 pm | 7:12 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 4:49 am | 5:58 am | 12:02 pm | 3:05 pm | 6:07 pm | 7:12 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 4:48 am | 5:57 am | 12:02 pm | 3:04 pm | 6:06 pm | 7:12 pm |
| Saturday October 3 | 4:48 am | 5:57 am | 12:02 pm | 3:03 pm | 6:06 pm | 7:11 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo, 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 Pointe-Noire
From Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo the qibla is 45.3 degrees on a true compass, which is northeast, or 44.7 degrees north of due east. The Kaaba is 4,216 km away, 2,619 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo 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 Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo 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 Pointe-Noire clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Africa/Brazzaville from the time zone database, so it stays right when Pointe-Noire 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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Pointe-Noire time now: common questions
- What time is it in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo right now?
- 3:24 pm on Sunday September 27, 2026. Pointe-Noire runs on UTC+1, UTC+1.
- What time zone is Pointe-Noire in?
- Africa/Brazzaville, currently UTC+1 at UTC+1. 4 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Pointe-Noire?
- UTC+1 at this instant. It is UTC+1 all year round, with no seasonal change.
- Does Pointe-Noire observe daylight saving time?
- No. Pointe-Noire stays on UTC+1 for the whole year.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Pointe-Noire of New York?
- Pointe-Noire is 5 hours ahead of New York, where it is 10:24 am right now.
- What time does the sun set in Pointe-Noire today?
- 6:07 pm, after a sunrise at 6:00 am and 12 hours 8 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Pointe-Noire?
- 4.78 degrees north, 168.14 degrees west, in the North Pacific Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Pointe-Noire from London?
- Between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm in Pointe-Noire, which is 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in London.
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