Machine-readable rule source
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Africa/Dakar.
GMTUTC+00:00Standard time
Africa/Dakar is the IANA timezone for Senegal, currently at UTC+00:00 (GMT). It does not observe daylight saving time; the offset stays the same year-round. The zone covers 4 cities listed below, with live clocks updating every second.
Offset, DST behavior, and city coverage are refreshed from the live timezone dataset during the page revalidation window.
Current time in GMT
--:--:--Africa/Dakar · UTC+00:00
Abbreviation
GMT
UTC Offset
UTC+00:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Country
Senegal
Timezone planning depth
What Africa/Dakar is useful for
A timezone page should do more than define an offset. These notes connect the zone to city clocks, DST behavior, converters, and adjacent country planning pages.
Zone identity
Africa/Dakar is rendered as GMT at UTC+00:00 for Senegal. The IANA zone ID is the stable key; the abbreviation is only the short display label.
DST behavior
Africa/Dakar has no scheduled offset transitions in the next 12 months. The displayed UTC+00:00 is stable year-round, which makes long-horizon scheduling, billing, and report-window math straightforward.
City coverage
4 indexable cities sit in this zone after locale and crawl-safety filters, with Dakar, Touba, Pikine, and Guédiawaye among the examples shown.
Conversion handoff
The fastest jumps from GMT are the curated converter pairs to CET, IST, JST, and AEST.
Adjacent planning context
The most useful next steps from this timezone page are airport-country planning and city clocks. Those links keep the zone page connected to real user tasks rather than stopping at an offset definition.
Abbreviations across the year
Africa/Dakar resolves to multiple display abbreviations in the next 12 months: BST and GMT. The abbreviation rotates with the offset, which is why long-lived calendar entries should be anchored to the IANA zone instead of a saved abbreviation.
Offset stability
Africa/Dakar spends about 365 days at UTC+00:00 across the forward 12-month window, which makes it stable across the entire window. The remaining time is split across the other offsets listed in the year-of-DST card.
Peer zones at the same offset
Other IANA zones currently aligned at UTC+00:00 include Etc/UTC, Africa/Abidjan, Africa/Bamako, Africa/Bissau, and Africa/Conakry. Same-offset peers can drift apart later in the year if their DST rules differ, so a peer match today is not a permanent equivalence.
Country roster
Africa/Dakar is used as the primary clock anchor for Senegal. The roster is derived from country-zone mappings, so it reflects which jurisdictions adopt this IANA zone rather than which countries happen to share its current offset.
Timezone abbreviations can be ambiguous. The IANA zone name is the canonical key used for clocks, city pages, and conversion math.
Source-change watch
When timezone policy changes
Policy-source boundary
No jurisdiction-specific policy source is attached for Africa/Dakar. Confirm legal clock-change announcements with the relevant government or time authority before relying on future rules.
Year-round offset behavior
Africa/Dakar across the next 12 months
Africa/Dakar has no scheduled offset transitions in the next 12 months. The displayed UTC+00:00 (GMT) stays stable across the window. That makes long-horizon scheduling, billing, and report-window math straightforward — meeting times do not need to track DST boundaries here.
Coverage reference
What Africa/Dakar covers
Country roster
Peer zones at UTC+00:00 right now
Etc/UTCAfrica/AbidjanAfrica/BamakoAfrica/BissauAfrica/ConakryAmerica/DanmarkshavnAfrica/FreetownAtlantic/St_Helena
Same-offset peers can drift apart later in the year if their DST rules differ; today's offset match is not a permanent equivalence.
Top cities in Africa/Dakar (by population)
Convert GMT Time
Cities in GMT
FAQ
- What is the current UTC offset for Africa/Dakar?
- Africa/Dakar is currently at UTC+00:00 (GMT). The page revalidates weekly, but live clocks on this page tick from the IANA zone in real time.
- Does Africa/Dakar observe daylight saving time in 2027?
- No. Africa/Dakar has no scheduled offset transitions in the next 12 months and currently stays at UTC+00:00 year-round.
- Which cities use Africa/Dakar?
- Africa/Dakar is the canonical clock for cities including Dakar, Touba, Pikine, Guédiawaye. The page lists 4 indexable cities in this zone after locale and crawl-safety filters.
- What abbreviations does Africa/Dakar use?
- Africa/Dakar resolves to BST, GMT across the next 12 months — the abbreviation rotates with each DST transition. Calendar entries should anchor to the IANA zone instead of an abbreviation so the right offset is used in each window.
- Why does Senegal use Africa/Dakar?
- Senegal is mapped to Africa/Dakar as one of its IANA zones in the country-zone catalog. The IANA zone records each jurisdiction's historical offset and DST rule changes; Africa/Dakar stores the rules used by Senegal (ISO SN).
Related timezone pages
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