Indexed entity
Kumasi is the kumasi-GH record in Ghana: country slug ghana, city slug kumasi, ISO GH, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Accra.
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Live local time
Kumasi, Ghana
10:44:07 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Accra
Quick answer
It is currently 10:44:07 AM (GMT, UTC+00:00) in Kumasi, Ghana — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
24°C
Drizzle
3-day forecast
Tue
30°C
23°C
78% rain
Wed
30°C
23°C
84% rain
Thu
30°C
23°C
90% rain
In 29 days
Wed, Jul 1, 2026
PublicIn 111 days
Founders Day
Mon, Sep 21, 2026
PublicIn 185 days
Farmers' Day
Fri, Dec 4, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Ghanaian Cedi
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
05:49 AM
Sunset
06:19 PM
Day length
12h 29m
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 Kumasi, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:44 AM UTC.
Current local time
10:44:07 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
GMT
Africa/Accra · UTC+00:00
Next holiday
Republic Day
Wednesday, July 1, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Kumasi right now
Nearest airport
KMS
Prempeh I International Airport · 5 km
Indexed airports
2
Curated airport references available for Ghana
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Kumasi, Ghana.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 10:44 GMT
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Kumasi 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
11:44 AM / +1h
Dubai
02:44 PM / +4h
Schedule risk
Republic Day on Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Travel cue
KMS Kumasi, 5 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:49 AM to 06:19 PM, with solar noon around 12:04 PM and total daylight of 12h 30m.
Mapped location
6.69°N, 1.62°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:44 AM / +1h
Good live-call window with Kumasi right now.
New York
06:44 AM / -4h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:44 AM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:44 PM / +4h
Good live-call window with Kumasi right now.
Singapore
06:44 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 Kumasi.
KMS · Prempeh I International Airport
Kumasi
ACC · Kotoka International Airport
Accra
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Accra 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 Kumasi right now.
Check local interruptions
Republic Day on Wednesday, July 1, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: KMS Kumasi, 5 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Accra. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Kumasi has no near-term DST change in view, but Republic Day can still affect office coverage and local response times.
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 Kumasi.
Canonical route
/time/ghana/kumasi/
Catalog identity
kumasi-GH · GH · Africa
Coordinate cell
6.69°N, 1.62°W · lat 6.688 · lon -1.624 · cell 669:-162
Population record
2,544,530 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Africa/Accra · GMT · UTC+00:00
January / July offsets
UTC+00:00 / UTC+00:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Takoradi, Ghana · 200 km
Nearest world hub
London · 4,986 km
Closest airport references
KMS Kumasi 5 km · ACC Accra 201 km
Zone peer roster
Accra, Ghana · Tamale, Ghana · Takoradi, Ghana
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Kumasi: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Kumasi is the kumasi-GH record in Ghana: country slug ghana, city slug kumasi, ISO GH, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Accra.
6.69°N, 1.62°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 6 and longitude band -2; exact decimal pair 6.68848, -1.62443.
Ghana: official name Republic of Ghana; capital Accra; region Africa; subregion Western Africa; country population 33,742,380; area 238,533 km²; languages English; currencies GHS Ghanaian cedi. This is the country layer behind the Kumasi clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Ghana: Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated with the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to the east. Ghana covers an area of 239,567 km2 (92,497 sq mi), spanning diverse ecologies, from coastal savannas to tropical rainforests. With over 35 million inhabitants, Ghana is ranked thirteenth-most populous country in Africa, and the second-most populous country in West Africa. The capital and largest city is Accra. Source: Wikipedia.
Takoradi [takoradi-GH, GH, Africa/Accra, 200 km]; Accra [accra-GH, GH, Africa/Accra, 202 km]; Abobo [abobo-CI, CI, Africa/Abidjan, 300 km]; Abidjan [abidjan-CI, CI, Africa/Abidjan, 302 km]; Tamale [tamale-GH, GH, Africa/Accra, 314 km]; Atakpamé [atakpame-TG, TG, Africa/Lome, 318 km]; Lomé [lome-TG, TG, Africa/Lome, 321 km]; Bouaké [bouake-CI, CI, Africa/Abidjan, 392 km]
Kumasi is part of this indexed country cluster: Kumasi [kumasi-GH, Africa/Accra, pop 2,544,530]; Accra [accra-GH, Africa/Accra, pop 1,963,264]; Tamale [tamale-GH, Africa/Accra, pop 464,316]; Takoradi [takoradi-GH, Africa/Accra, pop 389,114].
London 4,986 km; São Paulo 5,930 km; Dubai 6,370 km; New York 8,041 km; Singapore 11,694 km; Los Angeles 11,972 km; Tokyo 13,806 km; Sydney 15,901 km
KMS Prempeh I International Airport in Kumasi [GH, 5 km]; ACC Kotoka International Airport in Accra [GH, 201 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include ACC Kotoka International Airport in Accra [GH]; KMS Prempeh I International Airport in Kumasi [GH].
Kumasi renders Jun 2, 2026 · 10:44 GMT; GMT at UTC+00:00; January UTC+00:00; July UTC+00:00; next holiday Republic Day on 2026-07-01.
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 Kumasi.
Kumasi is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained Ghana city pages. The route is /time/ghana/kumasi/ and the city id is kumasi-GH.
Kumasi has 16 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.
Kumasi is pinned at 6.69°N, 1.62°W; Takoradi (200 km); London (4,986 km).
Africa/Accra resolves to stable UTC+00:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Ghana.
KMS Prempeh I International Airport (5 km) · Republic Day (Wednesday, July 1, 2026) · 2 country airport references · 11 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Kumasi 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.
Kumasi: Kumasi is a city and the capital of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly and the Ashanti Region of Ghana. It is the second largest city in the country, with a population of 443,981 as of the 2021 census. Kumasi is located in a rain forest region near Lake Bosomtwe and is located about 200 kilometres (120 mi) from Accra. The city experiences a tropical savanna climate, with two rainy seasons which range from minor to major. Major ethnic groups who live in Kumasi are the Asante, Dagombas, Mole-Dagbon and Ewe. As of 2025, the mayor of the metropolitan is Ofori-Agyeman Boadi.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+00:00) is constant year-round.
Kumasi is listed in the dataset snapshot as aligned with UTC (offset +00:00). 1 hour behind London, 9 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -1.62°, Kumasi'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.
Kumasi sits at 6.69°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Kumasi sits at 6.69°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
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 15 (12h 31m)
Shortest day
Jan 1 (11h 44m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 47m
See the full daylight curve for Kumasi at /sun/kumasi/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Kumasi local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Kumasi |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Public holidays in 2026
11
Kumasi is the second-largest city in Ghana and the capital of the Ashanti Region, with a population of about 2.5 million in the city and a larger surrounding metropolitan area. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT, UTC+0) governs civil time year-round, with no daylight saving. Historically the capital of the Ashanti Empire, Kumasi remains the seat of the Asantehene, the Ashanti king, and the Manhyia Palace. Often called the Garden City for its greenery, the city is a major commercial hub anchored by Kejetia Market, one of the largest open-air markets in West Africa, and it is a centre for the gold and cocoa trade that has long underpinned Ghana's economy.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Kumasi's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 10:44:07 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Kumasi (UTC+00:00, GMT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:49 AM to 06:19 PM
Day length 12h 30m · Solar noon 12:04 PM
Next country holiday
Republic Day
Wednesday, July 1, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Kumasi local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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8 days to go
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34 days to go
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Population
2.5M
Coordinates
6.69, -1.62
Timezone
Africa/Accra
Indexed airports
2
Capital
Accra
Languages
English
Currency
GHS (₵)
Country area
238,533 km²
Kumasi, Ghana (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Accra (GMT, UTC+00:00); population ~2.5M.
Coordinates: 6.69°N, 1.62°W. Northern Hemisphere deep tropics, ~742 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:49 AM and sets around 06:19 PM in Kumasi — about 12h 30m of daylight. Ghana stays on standard time here, so UTC+00:00 is stable through the year.
Takoradi (200 km from Kumasi) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 2 curated airport pages indexed for Ghana.
Next national holiday: Republic Day, 2026-07-01.
Kumasi is indexed as a Africa city in the GH country record, using Africa/Accra as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/ghana/kumasi/.
Location context: 6.69°N, 1.62°W; population 2,544,530; nearest indexed city Takoradi is about 200 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 4,986 km away.
Country planning context: capital Accra; subregion Western Africa; languages English; currency GHS (₵); area 238,533 km²; 2 curated airport references; next holiday Republic Day on 2026-07-01.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+00:00) is constant year-round.
Kumasi is listed in the dataset snapshot as aligned with UTC (offset +00:00). 1 hour behind London, 9 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -1.62°, Kumasi'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.
Kumasi sits at 6.69°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Major metropolitan area with around 2.5 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Kumasi: Accra (same time), Sydney (+10h), Tokyo (+9h), Singapore (+8h), Mumbai (+5.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
ghana
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
GMT
IANA Zone
Africa/Accra
UTC Offset
UTC+00:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
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 Kumasi.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Kumasi: closest hubs London (~4,986 km), São Paulo (~5,930 km), Dubai (~6,370 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~15,901 km).
Kumasi sits inside Ghana — the Western Africa subregion, capital Accra, languages English, currency GHS (₵).
Closest indexed cities to Kumasi: Takoradi (200 km), Accra (202 km), Abobo (300 km), Abidjan (302 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Kumasi: Republic Day, Founders Day, Farmers' Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Ghana.
Closest curated airport references from Kumasi: KMS Kumasi (5 km), ACC Accra (201 km).
Prempeh I International AirportKMS
Kumasi · 5 km from Kumasi
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 45m
Kotoka International AirportACC
Accra · 201 km from Kumasi
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 0m
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 | 11:44 AM | +1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:44 AM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:44 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:44 PM | +4h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:44 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:44 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:44 PM | +10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:44 AM | -3h | Check the overlap widget below |
Kumasi is in the Africa/Accra timezone (GMT), with a UTC offset of +00:00.
Kumasi 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 Kumasi is UTC+00:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Kumasi, 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 · 10:44 GMT. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Kumasi sits at 6.69°N, 1.62°W in Ghana, with about 2.5M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Kumasi is London, about 4,986 km away as the crow flies.
Takoradi is the closest indexed city, roughly 200 km from Kumasi.
Prempeh I International Airport (KMS) is the closest curated airport reference, about 5 km from Kumasi.
Republic Day is the next upcoming holiday in Ghana, on Wednesday, July 1, 2026.
Kumasi uses Ghanaian cedi (GHS, symbol ₵) as the local currency of Ghana.
The longest day of 2026 in Kumasi falls on Jun 15 with about 12h 31m of daylight. The shortest is Jan 1 with 11h 44m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
In Kumasi 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.