Indexed entity
Freetown is the freetown-SL record in Sierra Leone: country slug sierra-leone, city slug freetown, ISO SL, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Freetown.
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Live local time
Freetown, Sierra Leone
10:44:50 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Freetown
Quick answer
It is currently 10:44:50 AM (GMT, UTC+00:00) in Freetown, Sierra Leone — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
23°C
Rain
3-day forecast
Tue
28°C
23°C
89% rain
Wed
28°C
24°C
89% rain
Thu
28°C
24°C
96% rain
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
SLE
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
06:33 AM
Sunset
07:08 PM
Day length
12h 35m
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 Freetown, 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
10:44:50 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
GMT
Africa/Freetown · 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 Freetown right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Freetown
Indexed airports
0
Curated airport references available for Sierra Leone
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 10:44 GMT
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Freetown 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
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
Conakry, 127 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:33 AM to 07:08 PM, with solar noon around 12:51 PM and total daylight of 12h 35m.
Mapped location
8.49°N, 13.24°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 Freetown 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 Freetown 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 Freetown.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Freetown 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 Freetown right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest mapped context: Conakry, 127 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Freetown. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Freetown 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 Freetown.
Canonical route
/time/sierra-leone/freetown/
Catalog identity
freetown-SL · SL · Africa
Coordinate cell
8.49°N, 13.24°W · lat 8.487 · lon -13.236 · cell 849:-1324
Population record
802,639 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Africa/Freetown · GMT · UTC+00:00
January / July offsets
UTC+00:00 / UTC+00:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Conakry, Guinea · 127 km
Nearest world hub
London · 4,932 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Freetown
Zone peer roster
Bo, Sierra Leone · Kenema, Sierra Leone · Koidu, Sierra Leone
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Freetown: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Freetown is the freetown-SL record in Sierra Leone: country slug sierra-leone, city slug freetown, ISO SL, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Freetown.
8.49°N, 13.24°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 8 and longitude band -14; exact decimal pair 8.48714, -13.23560.
Sierra Leone: official name Republic of Sierra Leone; capital Freetown; region Africa; subregion Western Africa; country population 9,077,691; area 71,740 km²; languages English; currencies SLE Leone. This is the country layer behind the Freetown clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the west coast of West Africa. It is bordered to the southeast by Liberia and by Guinea to the north. Sierra Leone's land area is 73,252 km2 (28,283 sq mi). It has a tropical climate and environments ranging from savannas to rainforests. As of the 2023 census, Sierra Leone has a population of 8,460,512. Freetown is its capital and largest city. Source: Wikipedia.
Conakry [conakry-GN, GN, Africa/Conakry, 127 km]; Camayenne [camayenne-GN, GN, Africa/Conakry, 127 km]; Bo [bo-SL, SL, Africa/Freetown, 175 km]; Kenema [kenema-SL, SL, Africa/Freetown, 235 km]; Koidu [koidu-SL, SL, Africa/Freetown, 250 km]; Monrovia [monrovia-LR, LR, Africa/Monrovia, 363 km]; Xitole [xitole-GW, GW, Africa/Bissau, 400 km]; Gabú [gabu-GW, GW, Africa/Bissau, 435 km]
Freetown is part of this indexed country cluster: Freetown [freetown-SL, Africa/Freetown, pop 802,639]; Bo [bo-SL, Africa/Freetown, pop 174,354]; Kenema [kenema-SL, Africa/Freetown, pop 143,137]; Koidu [koidu-SL, Africa/Freetown, pop 124,662].
London 4,932 km; São Paulo 5,085 km; New York 6,945 km; Dubai 7,450 km; Los Angeles 10,835 km; Singapore 12,955 km; Tokyo 14,342 km; Sydney 16,774 km
Freetown has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Sierra Leone.
Freetown renders Jun 2, 2026 · 10:44 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 Freetown.
Freetown is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained Sierra Leone city pages. The route is /time/sierra-leone/freetown/ and the city id is freetown-SL.
Freetown has 13 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.
Freetown is pinned at 8.49°N, 13.24°W; Conakry (127 km); London (4,932 km).
Africa/Freetown resolves to stable UTC+00:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Sierra Leone.
Freetown has no direct nearby-airport handoff · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 0 country airport references · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Freetown 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.
Freetown: Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone. It is a major port city on the Atlantic Ocean and is located in the Western Area of the country. Freetown is Sierra Leone's major urban, economic, financial, cultural, educational and political centre, as it is the seat of the Government of Sierra Leone. The population of Freetown was 1,347,559 as of the 2024 census.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+00:00) is constant year-round.
Freetown is listed in the dataset snapshot as aligned with UTC (offset +00:00). 1 hour behind London, 9 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -13.24°, Freetown's mean solar noon falls about 53 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.
Freetown sits at 8.49°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Freetown sits at 8.49°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 11 (12h 37m)
Shortest day
Jan 1 (11h 38m)
Year-round average
12h 8m
Annual swing
0h 59m
See the full daylight curve for Freetown at /sun/freetown/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Freetown local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Freetown |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Sierra Leone
Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone, with a population of roughly 800,000 in the city proper and well over a million in its wider urban area. It observes Greenwich Mean Time (GMT, UTC+0) year-round, with no daylight saving. The city sits on a large natural harbour on the Atlantic coast, formed by the estuary of the Sierra Leone River, and that harbour gave Freetown its historic strategic importance. It was founded in 1792 by the Sierra Leone Company as a settlement for freed slaves from Britain, Nova Scotia, and later liberated captives intercepted by the Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron. Today Freetown is the country's political, financial, and cultural centre, dominated by the cotton tree, the colonial-era landmark at the heart of the city.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-23 (research).
Reference fields include Freetown's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 10:44:50 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Freetown (UTC+00:00, GMT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:33 AM to 07:08 PM
Day length 12h 35m · Solar noon 12:51 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Freetown local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
802.6K
Coordinates
8.49, -13.24
Timezone
Africa/Freetown
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Freetown
Languages
English
Currency
SLE (Le)
Country area
71,740 km²
Freetown, Sierra Leone (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Freetown (GMT, UTC+00:00); population ~802.6K.
Coordinates: 8.49°N, 13.24°W. Northern Hemisphere deep tropics, ~942 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:33 AM and sets around 07:08 PM in Freetown — about 12h 35m of daylight. Sierra Leone stays on standard time here, so UTC+00:00 is stable through the year.
Conakry (127 km from Freetown) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Sierra Leone.
Freetown is indexed as a Africa city in the SL country record, using Africa/Freetown as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/sierra-leone/freetown/.
Location context: 8.49°N, 13.24°W; population 802,639; nearest indexed city Conakry is about 127 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 4,932 km away.
Country planning context: capital Freetown; subregion Western Africa; languages English; currency SLE (Le); area 71,740 km²; 0 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.
Freetown is listed in the dataset snapshot as aligned with UTC (offset +00:00). 1 hour behind London, 9 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -13.24°, Freetown's mean solar noon falls about 53 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.
Freetown sits at 8.49°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Sizeable city with about 803 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Freetown: Bo (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.
sierra-leone
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
GMT
IANA Zone
Africa/Freetown
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 Freetown.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Freetown: closest hubs London (~4,932 km), São Paulo (~5,085 km), New York (~6,945 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~16,774 km).
Freetown sits inside Sierra Leone — the Western Africa subregion, capital Freetown, languages English, currency SLE (Le).
Closest indexed cities to Freetown: Conakry (127 km), Camayenne (127 km), Bo (175 km), Kenema (235 km).
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Freetown, so this page falls back to timezone and regional planning context instead of showing a broken travel panel.
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 |
Freetown is in the Africa/Freetown timezone (GMT), with a UTC offset of +00:00.
Freetown 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 Freetown is UTC+00:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Freetown, 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.
Freetown sits at 8.49°N, 13.24°W in Sierra Leone, with about 802.6K residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Freetown is London, about 4,932 km away as the crow flies.
Conakry is the closest indexed city, roughly 127 km from Freetown.
Freetown uses Leone (SLE, symbol Le) as the local currency of Sierra Leone.
The longest day of 2026 in Freetown falls on Jun 11 with about 12h 37m of daylight. The shortest is Jan 1 with 11h 38m; the year-round average is 12h 8m.
In Freetown 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.