OuagadougouBurkina Faso
Current time in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Thursday, 24 September 2026
Greenwich Mean TimeUTC+00:00
⛶ Full-screen clockOuagadougou time at a glance
- Country
- Burkina Faso
- Location
- Capital city of Burkina Faso
- Time zone
Africa/Ouagadougou- UTC offset now
UTC+00:00- Current zone label
- GMT
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Ouagadougou time guide
Does Ouagadougou change its clocks?
UTC+00:00.- Year-round offset
- UTC+00:00, with no seasonal clock change
- Time-zone identifier
- Africa/Ouagadougou
- Ouagadougou and London
- Same clock time during GMT; 1 hour behind during BST
- Ouagadougou and New York
- 5 hours ahead of EST; 4 hours ahead of EDT
Census commune
Use the commune boundary for city comparisons
Burkina Faso’s national statistics institute publishes a dedicated 2019 census monograph for the commune of Ouagadougou, alongside region, province, commune and locality datasets. Those levels cover different areas and should retain their census labels in comparisons.
Time-zone identity for Ouagadougou
- IANA zone
Africa/Ouagadougou- UTC offset now
- UTC+00:00
- Current zone label
- GMT
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Ouagadougou is currently the same clock time as UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Ouagadougou
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 Ouagadougou
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Africa/Ouagadougou, 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 Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou is the capital of Burkina Faso. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Burkina Faso
- Administrative area
- Centre, Burkina Faso
- Population
- 2,415,266
- Coordinates
- 12.3657° N, 1.5339° W. The elevation is 299 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Ouagadougou
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Ouagadougou. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- Nioko ICentre, Burkina Faso11 km east
Africa/OuagadougouSame local time - SaonréCentre, Burkina Faso11 km southwest
Africa/OuagadougouSame local time - SaabaCentre, Burkina Faso13 km east
Africa/OuagadougouSame local time - ZinguédésséCentre, Burkina Faso14 km south
Africa/OuagadougouSame local time - ZiniaréPlateau-Central, Burkina Faso35 km northeast
Africa/OuagadougouSame local time - KombissiriCentre-Sud, Burkina Faso39 km southeast
Africa/OuagadougouSame local time
Sources for Ouagadougou 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.
- 2019 Census: Monograph of the commune of OuagadougouNational Institute of Statistics and Demography of Burkina Faso · 2019 census monograph published 2022 · AccessedOfficial commune-level census and boundary context for Ouagadougou.