BissauGuinea-Bissau
Current time in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
Thursday, 24 September 2026
Greenwich Mean TimeUTC+00:00
⛶ Full-screen clockBissau time at a glance
- Country
- Guinea-Bissau
- Location
- Capital city of Guinea-Bissau
- Time zone
Africa/Bissau- UTC offset now
UTC+00:00- Current zone label
- GMT
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Bissau time guide
Does Bissau change its clocks?
UTC+00:00.- Year-round offset
- Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), UTC+00:00
- Time-zone identifier
- Africa/Bissau
- Bissau and London
- Same clock time during GMT; 1 hour behind during BST
- Bissau and New York
- 5 hours ahead during EST; 4 hours ahead during EDT
City and autonomous sector
Bissau is also its own administrative sector
Bissau is both the national capital and an autonomous administrative sector. Official statistical tables may describe the sector rather than a narrower built-up city boundary, so the geographic unit should be stated alongside any population total.
Time-zone identity for Bissau
- IANA zone
Africa/Bissau- UTC offset now
- UTC+00:00
- Current zone label
- GMT
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Bissau 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 Bissau
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 Bissau
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Africa/Bissau, 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 Bissau, capital of Guinea-Bissau
Bissau is the capital of Guinea-Bissau. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Guinea-Bissau
- Administrative area
- Guinea-Bissau
- Population
- 439,704
- Coordinates
- 11.8636° N, 15.5977° W. The elevation is 13 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Bissau
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Bissau. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- Sintra-NemaBissau, Guinea-BissauLess than 1 km away
Africa/BissauSame local time - MissiraBissau, Guinea-Bissau1 km west
Africa/BissauSame local time - BelemBissau, Guinea-Bissau1.3 km southwest
Africa/BissauSame local time - Reino de BandimBissau, Guinea-Bissau1.5 km south
Africa/BissauSame local time - LuandaBissau, Guinea-Bissau1.7 km north
Africa/BissauSame local time - Bairro MilitarBissau, Guinea-Bissau2.3 km northwest
Africa/BissauSame local time
Sources for Bissau 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.
- Guinea-Bissau in Numbers 2017National Institute of Statistics of Guinea-Bissau · 2017 edition · AccessedOfficial demographic and administrative statistics.