Dakar — Africa/Dakar
The current local time in the Africa/Dakar IANA time zone is shown below. It is the tz database identifier used in Senegal. The zone is currently at UTC +00:00 · GMT and does not observe daylight saving time.
Africa/Dakar
Thursday, 22 October 2026 GMT
Zone information
Offset & DST
Current UTC offset: +00:00
Daylight saving: Not observed
Countries using Africa/Dakar
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.
Cities in this zone
Zones on the same clock as Dakar
All IANA zones →These zones show the same time as Africa/Dakar on every day of 2026. Their histories may differ.
Africa/Abidjan Accra Africa/Accra Bamako Africa/Bamako Banjul Africa/Banjul Bissau Africa/Bissau Conakry Africa/Conakry Freetown Africa/Freetown Lome Africa/Lome Monrovia Africa/Monrovia Nouakchott Africa/Nouakchott Ouagadougou Africa/Ouagadougou Sao Tome Africa/Sao_Tome Danmarkshavn America/Danmarkshavn Reykjavik Atlantic/Reykjavik St Helena Atlantic/St_Helena More references for Africa/Dakar
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