Time in Senegal 🇸🇳
The current local time in Senegal is anchored on Dakar (Africa/Dakar, UTC +00:00 · GMT).
Dakar local time
Thursday, 22 October 2026 GMT
Senegal at a glance
- Capital
- Dakar
- ISO codes
- SN · SEN
- Clocks in use today
- One time zone
- tz database zones
- 1
- Dialing code
- +221
- Currency
- West African CFA Franc (XOF)
- Work week
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend
- Saturday and Sunday
- Drives on the
- Right
Time zones in Senegal
All of Senegal keeps the same clock, UTC +00:00, all year with no daylight saving time.
| Zone | Standard | Daylight saving | Clock changes 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
Africa/Dakar · Dakar | UTC +00:00 | — | None |
Dakar vs. major cities
How far Dakar is from the world's main business centres right now, what time it is there when the working day starts in Dakar, and which hours of a 09:00–17:00 day the two places share. Daylight saving changes are applied automatically.
| City | Difference | At 09:00 in Dakar | Shared office hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York · United States | −4 h | 05:00 | 13:00–17:00 |
| Los Angeles · United States | −7 h | 02:00 | 16:00–17:00 |
| São Paulo · Brazil | −3 h | 06:00 | 12:00–17:00 |
| London · United Kingdom | +1 h | 10:00 | 09:00–16:00 |
| Paris · France | +2 h | 11:00 | 09:00–15:00 |
| Johannesburg · South Africa | +2 h | 11:00 | 09:00–15:00 |
| Dubai · United Arab Emirates | +4 h | 13:00 | 09:00–13:00 |
| Delhi · India | +5:30 h | 14:30 | 09:00–11:30 |
| Singapore · Singapore | +8 h | 17:00 | None |
| Beijing · China | +8 h | 17:00 | None |
Shared office hours are shown in Dakar time. Compare any set of cities hour by hour in the time zone converter, or pick a slot that suits everyone with the event planner.
Clock changes in Dakar
Dakar has kept the same UTC +00:00 offset without daylight saving time since at least 1970.
No clock changes are scheduled in 2026 or 2027: Dakar stays on UTC +00:00 all year.
Source: IANA tz database, as shipped with the Unicode ICU library.
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