DakarSenegal
Current time in Dakar, Senegal
Thursday, 24 September 2026
Greenwich Mean TimeUTC+00:00
⛶ Full-screen clockDakar time at a glance
- Country
- Senegal
- Location
- Capital city of Senegal
- Time zone
Africa/Dakar- UTC offset now
UTC+00:00- Current zone label
- GMT
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Dakar time guide
Does Dakar change its clocks?
UTC+00:00.- Year-round offset
- Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), UTC+00:00
- Time-zone identifier
- Africa/Dakar
- Dakar and London
- Same time during GMT; 1 hour behind during BST
- Dakar and New York
- 5 hours ahead during EST; 4 hours ahead during EDT
City, department and region
Dakar names several nested geographies
Senegal's 2023 census counted 1,182,416 people in Dakar Department and about 3.90 million in Dakar Region. The City of Dakar is a narrower administrative unit, so regional and departmental totals require their own labels.
Time-zone identity for Dakar
- IANA zone
Africa/Dakar- UTC offset now
- UTC+00:00
- Current zone label
- GMT
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Dakar 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 Dakar
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 Dakar
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Africa/Dakar, 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 Dakar, capital of Senegal
Dakar is the capital of Senegal. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Senegal
- Administrative area
- Senegal
- Population
- 2,646,503
- Coordinates
- 14.6937° N, 17.4441° W. The elevation is 12 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Dakar
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Dakar. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- Le PlateauDakar, Senegal3.5 km south
Africa/DakarSame local time - PikineDakar, Senegal9.7 km northeast
Africa/DakarSame local time - GuédiawayeDakar, Senegal10 km northeast
Africa/DakarSame local time - N’diareme limamoulayeDakar, Senegal12 km northeast
Africa/DakarSame local time - RufisqueDakar, Senegal19 km east
Africa/DakarSame local time - Rufisque estDakar, Senegal19 km east
Africa/DakarSame local time
Sources for Dakar 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.
- Fifth General Population and Housing CensusNational Agency of Statistics and Demography Senegal · 2023 census · AccessedOfficial census results for Dakar city, department and region.