What time is it in Namibia?

Namibia stays on UTC+2:00 all year. Its offset from UTC never moves, so its relationship to places that do change shifts twice a year instead — which is usually why someone checks. Right now it is 2 hours ahead of UTC, and 7 hours ahead of New York.

Windhoek is 7 hours ahead of New York and 10 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 4:00 pm in Windhoek.

To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.

The day is 13 hours 10 minutes long in Windhoek, and gaining 1 minute a day. The sun peaks at 12:35 pm, 35 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Windhoek sits 52 minutes of solar time west of UTC+2:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

Windhoek lies inside the tropics, so the sun passes directly overhead at noon twice a year — around January 5 and December 6 in 2026, when a vertical object casts almost no shadow. Nowhere outside the tropics ever sees that. The longest day is 13 hours 31 minutes and the shortest 10 hours 45 minutes, 166 minutes apart.

Namibia has kept UTC+2:00 since Sunday, September 3, 2017, when it moved from UTC+1:00. Before that its clocks read 1 hour behind what they read now.

On UTC+2:00 right now, the same clock as Namibia: