GaboroneBotswana
Current time in Gaborone, Botswana
Thursday, 24 September 2026
Central Africa TimeUTC+02:00
⛶ Full-screen clockGaborone time at a glance
- Country
- Botswana
- Location
- Capital city of Botswana
- Time zone
Africa/Gaborone- UTC offset now
UTC+02:00- Current zone label
- GMT+2
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Gaborone time guide
Does Gaborone change its clocks?
UTC+02:00.- Year-round offset
- UTC+02:00, with no seasonal clock change
- Time-zone identifier
- Africa/Gaborone
- Gaborone and London
- 2 hours ahead of GMT; 1 hour ahead of BST
- Gaborone and New York
- 7 hours ahead of EST; 6 hours ahead of EDT
Census city
Use the Gaborone City census boundary
Statistics Botswana’s 2022 Population and Housing Census reports 246,325 residents for Gaborone City and publishes smaller localities within it. Greater Gaborone and surrounding settlements cover a broader area than this census-city figure.
Time-zone identity for Gaborone
- IANA zone
Africa/Gaborone- UTC offset now
- UTC+02:00
- Current zone label
- GMT+2
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Gaborone is currently 2 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Gaborone
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Wednesday, 29 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Gaborone
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Africa/Gaborone, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the previous 5 years.
Next 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the next 5 years.
Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.
Capital city context
About Gaborone, capital of Botswana
Gaborone is the capital of Botswana. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Botswana
- Administrative area
- Botswana
- Population
- 246,325
- Coordinates
- 24.6545° S, 25.9086° E. The elevation is 1,011 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Gaborone
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Gaborone. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- MogoditshaneKweneng, Botswana5.3 km northwest
Africa/GaboroneSame local time - TlokwengSouth-East, Botswana6.5 km east
Africa/GaboroneSame local time - MmoponeKweneng, Botswana10 km north
Africa/GaboroneSame local time - GabaneKweneng, Botswana13 km west
Africa/GaboroneSame local time - RamotswaSouth-East, Botswana24 km south
Africa/GaboroneSame local time - MochudiKgatleng, Botswana36 km northeast
Africa/GaboroneSame local time
Sources for Gaborone time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 4 sources
- GeoNames cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.
- Population of Cities, Towns and Villages 2022Statistics Botswana · 2022 Population and Housing Census, version 2 · AccessedOfficial census-city population and locality context for Gaborone.