Indexed entity
Ouagadougou is the ouagadougou-BF record in Burkina Faso: country slug burkina-faso, city slug ouagadougou, ISO BF, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Ouagadougou.
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Live local time
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
11:26:09 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Ouagadougou
Quick answer
It is currently 11:26:09 AM (GMT, UTC+00:00) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
26°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
33°C
24°C
38% rain
Wed
34°C
23°C
35% rain
Thu
34°C
23°C
45% rain
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
West African CFA Franc
Live ECB rate not available for this currency.
Conversion rates aren’t published for this currency by the ECB. The local code is shown for reference.
Today
Sunrise
05:39 AM
Sunset
06:28 PM
Day length
12h 49m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Ouagadougou, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 11:26 AM UTC.
Current local time
11:26:09 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
GMT
Africa/Ouagadougou · UTC+00:00
Next holiday
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Ouagadougou right now
Nearest airport
OUA
Ouagadougou Thomas Sankara International Airport · 3 km
Indexed airports
1
Curated airport references available for Burkina Faso
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 11:26 GMT
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Ouagadougou is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+00:00
Zone label
GMT
London
12:26 PM / +1h
Dubai
03:26 PM / +4h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
OUA Ouagadougou, 3 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:39 AM to 06:28 PM, with solar noon around 12:04 PM and total daylight of 12h 49m.
Mapped location
12.37°N, 1.53°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
12:26 PM / +1h
Good live-call window with Ouagadougou right now.
New York
07:26 AM / -4h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
04:26 AM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
03:26 PM / +4h
Good live-call window with Ouagadougou right now.
Singapore
07:26 PM / +8h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Ouagadougou.
OUA · Ouagadougou Thomas Sankara International Airport
Ouagadougou
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Ouagadougou for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+00:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+00:00.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Ouagadougou right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest curated airport reference: OUA Ouagadougou, 3 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Ouagadougou. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Ouagadougou has no near-term DST change or holiday interruption in view, but future rules can still be revised by local authorities.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Ouagadougou.
Canonical route
/time/burkina-faso/ouagadougou/
Catalog identity
ouagadougou-BF · BF · Africa
Coordinate cell
12.37°N, 1.53°W · lat 12.366 · lon -1.534 · cell 1237:-153
Population record
2,415,266 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Africa/Ouagadougou · GMT · UTC+00:00
January / July offsets
UTC+00:00 / UTC+00:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Saaba, Burkina Faso · 13 km
Nearest world hub
London · 4,354 km
Closest airport references
OUA Ouagadougou 3 km
Zone peer roster
Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso · Koudougou, Burkina Faso · Saaba, Burkina Faso
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Ouagadougou: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Ouagadougou is the ouagadougou-BF record in Burkina Faso: country slug burkina-faso, city slug ouagadougou, ISO BF, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Ouagadougou.
12.37°N, 1.53°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 12 and longitude band -2; exact decimal pair 12.36566, -1.53388.
Burkina Faso: official name Burkina Faso; capital Ouagadougou; region Africa; subregion Western Africa; country population 24,070,553; area 272,967 km²; languages French; currencies XOF West African CFA franc. This is the country layer behind the Ouagadougou clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Burkina Faso: Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274,223 km2. In 2024, the country had an estimated population of approximately 23,286,000. After independence it was called the Republic of Upper Volta from 1958 to 1984. It was renamed Burkina Faso by then-president Thomas Sankara. Its citizens are known as Burkinabes, and its capital and largest city is Ouagadougou. Source: Wikipedia.
Saaba [saaba-BF, BF, Africa/Ouagadougou, 13 km]; Koudougou [koudougou-BF, BF, Africa/Ouagadougou, 91 km]; Bobo-Dioulasso [bobo-dioulasso-BF, BF, Africa/Ouagadougou, 328 km]; Tamale [tamale-GH, GH, Africa/Accra, 338 km]; Niamey [niamey-NE, NE, Africa/Niamey, 415 km]; Koutiala [koutiala-ML, ML, Africa/Bamako, 427 km]; Kara [kara-TG, TG, Africa/Lome, 431 km]; Sikasso [sikasso-ML, ML, Africa/Bamako, 465 km]
Ouagadougou is part of this indexed country cluster: Ouagadougou [ouagadougou-BF, Africa/Ouagadougou, pop 2,415,266]; Bobo-Dioulasso [bobo-dioulasso-BF, Africa/Ouagadougou, pop 904,920]; Koudougou [koudougou-BF, Africa/Ouagadougou, pop 160,239]; Saaba [saaba-BF, Africa/Ouagadougou, pop 136,011].
London 4,354 km; Dubai 6,104 km; São Paulo 6,324 km; New York 7,643 km; Los Angeles 11,577 km; Singapore 11,640 km; Tokyo 13,295 km; Sydney 16,365 km
OUA Ouagadougou Thomas Sankara International Airport in Ouagadougou [BF, 3 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include OUA Ouagadougou Thomas Sankara International Airport in Ouagadougou [BF].
Ouagadougou renders Jun 2, 2026 · 11:26 GMT; GMT at UTC+00:00; January UTC+00:00; July UTC+00:00; next holiday not currently surfaced.
This evidence pack keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Ouagadougou.
Ouagadougou is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained Burkina Faso city pages. The route is /time/burkina-faso/ouagadougou/ and the city id is ouagadougou-BF.
Ouagadougou has 15 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Ouagadougou is pinned at 12.37°N, 1.53°W; Saaba (13 km); London (4,354 km).
Africa/Ouagadougou resolves to stable UTC+00:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Burkina Faso.
OUA Ouagadougou Thomas Sankara International Airport (3 km) · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 1 country airport reference · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Ouagadougou uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Ouagadougou: Ouagadougou or Wagadugu is the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso, and the administrative, communications, cultural and economic centre of the nation. It has a population of 2,415,266 in 2019. The city's name is often shortened to Ouaga. The inhabitants are called ouagalais. The spelling of the name Ouagadougou is derived from the French orthography common in former French African colonies.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+00:00) is constant year-round.
Ouagadougou is listed in the dataset snapshot as aligned with UTC (offset +00:00). 1 hour behind London, 9 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -1.53°, Ouagadougou's mean solar noon falls about 6 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Ouagadougou sits at 12.37°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Ouagadougou sits at 12.37°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Jun 12 (12h 51m)
Shortest day
Dec 13 (11h 24m)
Year-round average
12h 8m
Annual swing
1h 27m
See the full daylight curve for Ouagadougou at /sun/ouagadougou/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Ouagadougou local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Ouagadougou |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 13:00 - 21:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 07:00 - 15:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 05:00 - 13:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 03:30 - 11:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 01:00 - 09:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 01:00 - 09:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 00:00 - 08:00 |
Capital status
National capital of Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou is the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso, with a population of roughly 2.4 million, located on the central plateau of this landlocked West African nation. It observes Greenwich Mean Time (GMT, UTC+0) year-round, with no daylight saving. The political, administrative, cultural, and economic centre of the country, Ouagadougou is the seat of government and the historic capital of the Mossi Kingdom of Wagadugu. The city hosts FESPACO, the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, the largest film festival on the African continent, held biennially since 1969 and a cornerstone of African cinema.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Ouagadougou's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 11:26:09 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Ouagadougou (UTC+00:00, GMT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:39 AM to 06:28 PM
Day length 12h 49m · Solar noon 12:04 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Ouagadougou local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
2.4M
Coordinates
12.37, -1.53
Timezone
Africa/Ouagadougou
Indexed airports
1
Capital
Ouagadougou
Languages
French
Currency
XOF (Fr)
Country area
272,967 km²
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Ouagadougou (GMT, UTC+00:00); population ~2.4M.
Coordinates: 12.37°N, 1.53°W. Northern Hemisphere tropics, ~1373 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:39 AM and sets around 06:28 PM in Ouagadougou — about 12h 49m of daylight. Burkina Faso stays on standard time here, so UTC+00:00 is stable through the year.
Saaba (13 km from Ouagadougou) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Burkina Faso.
Ouagadougou is indexed as a Africa city in the BF country record, using Africa/Ouagadougou as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/burkina-faso/ouagadougou/.
Location context: 12.37°N, 1.53°W; population 2,415,266; nearest indexed city Saaba is about 13 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 4,354 km away.
Country planning context: capital Ouagadougou; subregion Western Africa; languages French; currency XOF (Fr); area 272,967 km²; 1 curated airport references; no upcoming holiday signal currently in view.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+00:00) is constant year-round.
Ouagadougou is listed in the dataset snapshot as aligned with UTC (offset +00:00). 1 hour behind London, 9 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -1.53°, Ouagadougou's mean solar noon falls about 6 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Ouagadougou sits at 12.37°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Major metropolitan area with around 2.4 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Ouagadougou: Bobo-Dioulasso (same time), Sydney (+10h), Tokyo (+9h), Mumbai (+5.5h), São Paulo (−3h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
burkina-faso
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
GMT
IANA Zone
Africa/Ouagadougou
UTC Offset
UTC+00:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+00:00
Portugal, , Ivory Coast, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Senegal, Greenland
Other cities in this timezone
London
+1h
New York
-4h
Los Angeles
-7h
Dubai
+4h
Singapore
+8h
Tokyo
+9h
Sydney
+10h
São Paulo
-3h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Ouagadougou.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Ouagadougou: closest hubs London (~4,354 km), Dubai (~6,104 km), São Paulo (~6,324 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~16,365 km).
Ouagadougou sits inside Burkina Faso — the Western Africa subregion, capital Ouagadougou, languages French, currency XOF (Fr).
Closest indexed cities to Ouagadougou: Saaba (13 km), Koudougou (91 km), Bobo-Dioulasso (328 km), Tamale (338 km).
Closest curated airport references from Ouagadougou: OUA Ouagadougou (3 km).
Ouagadougou Thomas Sankara International AirportOUA
Ouagadougou · 3 km from Ouagadougou
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 45m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
2 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 12:26 PM | +1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 07:26 AM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 04:26 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 03:26 PM | +4h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 07:26 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 08:26 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 09:26 PM | +10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 08:26 AM | -3h | Check the overlap widget below |
Ouagadougou is in the Africa/Ouagadougou timezone (GMT), with a UTC offset of +00:00.
Ouagadougou does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+00:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Ouagadougou is UTC+00:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Ouagadougou, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 11:26 GMT. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Ouagadougou sits at 12.37°N, 1.53°W in Burkina Faso, with about 2.4M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Ouagadougou is London, about 4,354 km away as the crow flies.
Saaba is the closest indexed city, roughly 13 km from Ouagadougou.
Ouagadougou Thomas Sankara International Airport (OUA) is the closest curated airport reference, about 3 km from Ouagadougou.
Ouagadougou uses West African CFA franc (XOF, symbol Fr) as the local currency of Burkina Faso.
The longest day of 2026 in Ouagadougou falls on Jun 12 with about 12h 51m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 13 with 11h 24m; the year-round average is 12h 8m.
In Ouagadougou local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 13:00-21:00; London 08:00-16:00; Frankfurt 07:00-15:00; Dubai 05:00-13:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.