Indexed entity
Dakar is the dakar-SN record in Senegal: country slug senegal, city slug dakar, ISO SN, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Dakar.
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Live local time
Dakar, Senegal
10:41:40 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Dakar
Quick answer
It is currently 10:41:40 AM (GMT, UTC+00:00) in Dakar, Senegal — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
21°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
30°C
23°C
Wed
28°C
23°C
Thu
31°C
22°C
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
06:39 AM
Sunset
07:36 PM
Day length
12h 57m
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 Dakar, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:41 AM UTC.
Current local time
10:41:40 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
GMT
Africa/Dakar · 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 Dakar right now
Nearest airport
DKR
Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport · 7 km
Indexed airports
2
Curated airport references available for Senegal
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Dakar, Senegal.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 10:41 GMT
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Dakar 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
11:41 AM / +1h
Dubai
02:41 PM / +4h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
DKR Dakar, 7 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:39 AM to 07:36 PM, with solar noon around 01:08 PM and total daylight of 12h 57m.
Mapped location
14.69°N, 17.44°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:41 AM / +1h
Good live-call window with Dakar right now.
New York
06:41 AM / -4h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:41 AM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:41 PM / +4h
Good live-call window with Dakar right now.
Singapore
06:41 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 Dakar.
DKR · Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport
Dakar
DSS · Blaise Diagne International Airport
Dakar
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Dakar 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 Dakar right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest curated airport reference: DKR Dakar, 7 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Dakar. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Dakar 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 Dakar.
Canonical route
/time/senegal/dakar/
Catalog identity
dakar-SN · SN · Africa
Coordinate cell
14.69°N, 17.44°W · lat 14.694 · lon -17.444 · cell 1469:-1744
Population record
2,646,503 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Africa/Dakar · GMT · UTC+00:00
January / July offsets
UTC+00:00 / UTC+00:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Pikine, Senegal · 10 km
Nearest world hub
London · 4,375 km
Closest airport references
DKR Dakar 7 km · DSS Dakar 40 km
Zone peer roster
Touba, Senegal · Pikine, Senegal · Guédiawaye, Senegal
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Dakar: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Dakar is the dakar-SN record in Senegal: country slug senegal, city slug dakar, ISO SN, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Dakar.
14.69°N, 17.44°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 14 and longitude band -18; exact decimal pair 14.69370, -17.44406.
Senegal: official name Republic of Senegal; capital Dakar; region Africa; subregion Western Africa; country population 18,593,258; area 196,722 km²; languages French; currencies XOF West African CFA franc. This is the country layer behind the Dakar clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Senegal: Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated along the Atlantic Ocean coast. It borders Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds the Gambia, a country occupying a narrow strip of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country. It also shares a maritime border with Cape Verde. The capital and largest city of Senegal is Dakar. Source: Wikipedia.
Pikine [pikine-SN, SN, Africa/Dakar, 10 km]; Guédiawaye [guediawaye-SN, SN, Africa/Dakar, 10 km]; Serekunda [serekunda-GM, GM, Africa/Banjul, 162 km]; Bununka Kunda [bununka-kunda-GM, GM, Africa/Banjul, 163 km]; Sukuta [sukuta-GM, GM, Africa/Banjul, 163 km]; Touba [touba-SN, SN, Africa/Dakar, 170 km]; Brikama [brikama-GM, GM, Africa/Banjul, 180 km]; Bissau [bissau-GW, GW, Africa/Bissau, 373 km]
Dakar is part of this indexed country cluster: Dakar [dakar-SN, Africa/Dakar, pop 2,646,503]; Touba [touba-SN, Africa/Dakar, pop 1,120,824]; Pikine [pikine-SN, Africa/Dakar, pop 874,062]; Guédiawaye [guediawaye-SN, Africa/Dakar, pop 329,659].
London 4,375 km; São Paulo 5,306 km; New York 6,148 km; Dubai 7,606 km; Los Angeles 10,059 km; Singapore 13,313 km; Tokyo 13,917 km; Sydney 17,597 km
DKR Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar [SN, 7 km]; DSS Blaise Diagne International Airport in Dakar [SN, 40 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include DKR Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar [SN]; DSS Blaise Diagne International Airport in Dakar [SN].
Dakar renders Jun 2, 2026 · 10:41 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 Dakar.
Dakar is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained Senegal city pages. The route is /time/senegal/dakar/ and the city id is dakar-SN.
Dakar 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.
Dakar is pinned at 14.69°N, 17.44°W; Pikine (10 km); London (4,375 km).
Africa/Dakar resolves to stable UTC+00:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Senegal.
DKR Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport (7 km) · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 2 country airport references · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Dakar 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.
Dakar: Dakar is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The department of Dakar has a population of 1,278,469, and the population of the Dakar metropolitan area was at 4.0 million in 2023.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+00:00) is constant year-round.
Dakar is listed in the dataset snapshot as aligned with UTC (offset +00:00). 1 hour behind London, 9 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -17.44°, Dakar's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 10 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.
Dakar sits at 14.69°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.
Dakar sits at 14.69°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 16 (13h 0m)
Shortest day
Dec 18 (11h 15m)
Year-round average
12h 8m
Annual swing
1h 45m
See the full daylight curve for Dakar at /sun/dakar/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Dakar local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Dakar |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Senegal
Dakar is the capital and largest city of Senegal, with about 2.6 million residents in the city department and roughly 4 million across its metropolitan area. The city, and the whole of Senegal, runs on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT, UTC+0) year-round with no daylight saving, placing it on the same clock as London in winter. Dakar occupies the Cap-Vert peninsula, the westernmost point of mainland Africa, jutting into the Atlantic Ocean. Founded as a French colonial settlement in the 19th century, it served as the capital of French West Africa and remains the political, economic, and cultural centre of Senegal. The city is a major Atlantic port and was historically the finishing point of the Dakar Rally; the nearby Île de Gorée, a former slave-trading post, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Dakar's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 10:41:40 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Dakar (UTC+00:00, GMT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:39 AM to 07:36 PM
Day length 12h 57m · Solar noon 01:08 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Dakar local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
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8 days to go
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
keynoteSunday, December 6, 2026
187 days to go
Population
2.6M
Coordinates
14.69, -17.44
Timezone
Africa/Dakar
Indexed airports
2
Capital
Dakar
Languages
French
Currency
XOF (Fr)
Country area
196,722 km²
Dakar, Senegal (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Dakar (GMT, UTC+00:00); population ~2.6M.
Coordinates: 14.69°N, 17.44°W. Northern Hemisphere tropics, ~1631 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:39 AM and sets around 07:36 PM in Dakar — about 12h 57m of daylight. Senegal stays on standard time here, so UTC+00:00 is stable through the year.
Pikine (10 km from Dakar) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 2 curated airport pages indexed for Senegal.
Dakar is indexed as a Africa city in the SN country record, using Africa/Dakar as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/senegal/dakar/.
Location context: 14.69°N, 17.44°W; population 2,646,503; nearest indexed city Pikine is about 10 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 4,375 km away.
Country planning context: capital Dakar; subregion Western Africa; languages French; currency XOF (Fr); area 196,722 km²; 2 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.
Dakar is listed in the dataset snapshot as aligned with UTC (offset +00:00). 1 hour behind London, 9 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -17.44°, Dakar's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 10 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.
Dakar sits at 14.69°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 2.6 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Dakar: Touba (same time), Sydney (+10h), Tokyo (+9h), Mumbai (+5.5h), Hong Kong (+8h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
senegal
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
GMT
IANA Zone
Africa/Dakar
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 Dakar.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Dakar: closest hubs London (~4,375 km), São Paulo (~5,306 km), New York (~6,148 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~17,597 km).
Dakar sits inside Senegal — the Western Africa subregion, capital Dakar, languages French, currency XOF (Fr).
Closest indexed cities to Dakar: Pikine (10 km), Guédiawaye (10 km), Serekunda (162 km), Bununka Kunda (163 km).
Closest curated airport references from Dakar: DKR Dakar (7 km), DSS Dakar (40 km).
Léopold Sédar Senghor International AirportDKR
Dakar · 7 km from Dakar
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Blaise Diagne International AirportDSS
Dakar · 40 km from Dakar
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 48m
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 | 11:41 AM | +1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:41 AM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:41 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:41 PM | +4h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:41 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:41 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:41 PM | +10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:41 AM | -3h | Check the overlap widget below |
Dakar is in the Africa/Dakar timezone (GMT), with a UTC offset of +00:00.
Dakar 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 Dakar is UTC+00:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Dakar, 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 · 10:41 GMT. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Dakar sits at 14.69°N, 17.44°W in Senegal, with about 2.6M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Dakar is London, about 4,375 km away as the crow flies.
Pikine is the closest indexed city, roughly 10 km from Dakar.
Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport (DKR) is the closest curated airport reference, about 7 km from Dakar.
Dakar uses West African CFA franc (XOF, symbol Fr) as the local currency of Senegal.
The longest day of 2026 in Dakar falls on Jun 16 with about 13h 0m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 18 with 11h 15m; the year-round average is 12h 8m.
In Dakar 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.