FreetownSierra Leone
Current time in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Friday, 25 September 2026
Greenwich Mean TimeUTC+00:00
⛶ Full-screen clockFreetown time at a glance
- Country
- Sierra Leone
- Location
- Capital city of Sierra Leone
- Time zone
Africa/Freetown- UTC offset now
UTC+00:00- Current zone label
- GMT
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Freetown time guide
Does Freetown change its clocks?
UTC+00:00.- Year-round offset
- Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), UTC+00:00
- Time-zone identifier
- Africa/Freetown
- Freetown and London
- Same time during GMT; 1 hour behind during BST
- Freetown and New York
- 5 hours ahead during EST; 4 hours ahead during EDT
City and Western Area
Freetown is not the whole Western Area
Statistics Sierra Leone publishes census results for Western Area Urban and Western Area Rural. A Freetown figure should state whether it uses the city, urban district or wider metropolitan footprint rather than combining those boundaries.
Time-zone identity for Freetown
- IANA zone
Africa/Freetown- UTC offset now
- UTC+00:00
- Current zone label
- GMT
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Freetown 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 Freetown
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Thursday, 30 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Freetown
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Africa/Freetown, 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 Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone
Freetown is the capital of Sierra Leone. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Sierra Leone
- Administrative area
- Western Area, Sierra Leone
- Population
- 802,639
- Coordinates
- 8.4871° N, 13.2356° W. The elevation is 38 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Freetown
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Freetown. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- GoderichWestern Area, Sierra Leone8.6 km southwest
Africa/FreetownSame local time - WaterlooWestern Area, Sierra Leone24 km southeast
Africa/FreetownSame local time - Port LokoNorth West, Sierra Leone58 km northeast
Africa/FreetownSame local time - LunsarNorthern Province, Sierra Leone80 km east
Africa/FreetownSame local time - Mile 91Northern Province, Sierra Leone112 km east
Africa/FreetownSame local time - NjalaSouthern Province, Sierra Leone137 km east
Africa/FreetownSame local time
Sources for Freetown 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.
- Population and Housing CensusStatistics Sierra Leone · Official census series · AccessedOfficial census reports and subnational population tables.