Current time in Luanda, Angola
The current local time in Luanda is shown below. Luanda observes WAT.
What's the daylight saving status?
Luanda does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- Africa/Luanda
- Standard abbreviation
- WAT
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇦🇴 Angola
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Luanda?
Angola keeps West Africa Time at UTC+1 year-round with no daylight saving, the offset running down much of the Atlantic side of the continent. Luanda lies on the coast at around 13 degrees east, close to the offset's meridian, so the civil clock and the sun stay reasonably aligned. The single national time covers a country roughly twice the size of France, and the steady offset suits the scheduling of the oil exports on which the economy heavily leans.
What are the working hours in Luanda?
Portuguese is the language of business, and the working day runs broadly 08:00 to 17:00 from Monday to Friday, with the oil and gas sector, government, and a large construction and services economy setting the pace. The capital has at times ranked among the most expensive cities in the world for foreign staff, a legacy of the oil boom. The Christian holidays at Christmas and Easter are the principal closures, alongside Carnival in February and national days including Independence Day in November. Heavy congestion in the cramped capital stretches the effective working day at both ends.
Where is Luanda?
Luanda occupies a bay on the Atlantic coast of Angola, the capital and by far the largest city, with a metropolitan population of around 9 million swollen by decades of migration during and after the long civil war. The Portuguese founded it in 1576, and it grew into a major slave-trading and later colonial port. Today its high-rise waterfront looks out over offshore oilfields that have made the country one of Africa's largest crude producers.