Indexed entity
Koidu is the koidu-SL record in Sierra Leone: country slug sierra-leone, city slug koidu, ISO SL, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Freetown.
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Live local time
Koidu, Sierra Leone
10:44:37 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Freetown
Quick answer
It is currently 10:44:37 AM (GMT, UTC+00:00) in Koidu, Sierra Leone — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
22°C
Rain
3-day forecast
Tue
30°C
21°C
90% rain
Wed
29°C
22°C
82% rain
Thu
29°C
22°C
81% 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
06:24 AM
Sunset
06:59 PM
Day length
12h 36m
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 Koidu, 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
10:44:37 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 Koidu right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Koidu
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 Koidu, Sierra Leone.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 10:44 GMT
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Koidu 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
Kenema, 89 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:24 AM to 06:59 PM, with solar noon around 12:42 PM and total daylight of 12h 35m.
Mapped location
8.64°N, 10.97°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 Koidu 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 Koidu 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 Koidu.
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 Koidu right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest mapped context: Kenema, 89 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
Koidu 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 Koidu.
Canonical route
/time/sierra-leone/koidu/
Catalog identity
koidu-SL · SL · Africa
Coordinate cell
8.64°N, 10.97°W · lat 8.644 · lon -10.971 · cell 864:-1097
Population record
124,662 residents · country rank 4
Zone snapshot
Africa/Freetown · GMT · UTC+00:00
January / July offsets
UTC+00:00 / UTC+00:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Kenema, Sierra Leone · 89 km
Nearest world hub
London · 4,868 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Koidu
Zone peer roster
Freetown, Sierra Leone · Bo, Sierra Leone · Kenema, Sierra Leone
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Koidu: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Koidu is the koidu-SL record in Sierra Leone: country slug sierra-leone, city slug koidu, ISO SL, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Freetown.
8.64°N, 10.97°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 8 and longitude band -11; exact decimal pair 8.64387, -10.97140.
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 Koidu 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.
Kenema [kenema-SL, SL, Africa/Freetown, 89 km]; Bo [bo-SL, SL, Africa/Freetown, 113 km]; Gbarnga [gbarnga-LR, LR, Africa/Monrovia, 247 km]; Freetown [freetown-SL, SL, Africa/Freetown, 250 km]; Nzérékoré [nzerekore-GN, GN, Africa/Conakry, 257 km]; Monrovia [monrovia-LR, LR, Africa/Monrovia, 261 km]; Kankan [kankan-GN, GN, Africa/Conakry, 266 km]; Ganta [ganta-LR, LR, Africa/Monrovia, 269 km]
Koidu 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 4,868 km; São Paulo 5,276 km; New York 7,120 km; Dubai 7,215 km; Los Angeles 11,025 km; Singapore 12,705 km; Tokyo 14,205 km; Sydney 16,670 km
Koidu has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Sierra Leone.
Koidu 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 is what keeps smaller city pages from reading like timezone templates: concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Koidu.
Koidu is a context-and-reference city; rank #4 of 4 retained Sierra Leone city pages. The route is /time/sierra-leone/koidu/ and the city id is koidu-SL.
Koidu has 12 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.
Koidu is pinned at 8.64°N, 10.97°W; Kenema (89 km); London (4,868 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.
Koidu 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.
Koidu 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.
Koidu: Koidu Town is the capital and largest city of the Kono District in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Its population is 128,030 based on the 2015 census. It is the fifth largest city in Sierra Leone by population, after Freetown, Kenema, Bo and Makeni. It lies approximately 280 miles east of Freetown, and about 60 miles north of Kenema.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+00:00) is constant year-round.
Koidu is listed in the dataset snapshot as aligned with UTC (offset +00:00). 1 hour behind London, 9 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -10.97°, Koidu's mean solar noon falls about 44 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.
Koidu sits at 8.64°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Koidu sits at 8.64°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 17 (12h 38m)
Shortest day
Dec 14 (11h 37m)
Year-round average
12h 8m
Annual swing
1h 1m
See the full daylight curve for Koidu at /sun/koidu/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Koidu local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Koidu |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Reference fields include Koidu's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 10:44:37 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Koidu (UTC+00:00, GMT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:24 AM to 06:59 PM
Day length 12h 35m · Solar noon 12:42 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Koidu local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
124.7K
Coordinates
8.64, -10.97
Timezone
Africa/Freetown
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Freetown
Languages
English
Currency
SLE (Le)
Country area
71,740 km²
Koidu, Sierra Leone (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Freetown (GMT, UTC+00:00); population ~124.7K.
Coordinates: 8.64°N, 10.97°W. Northern Hemisphere deep tropics, ~959 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:24 AM and sets around 06:59 PM in Koidu — about 12h 35m of daylight. Sierra Leone stays on standard time here, so UTC+00:00 is stable through the year.
Kenema (89 km from Koidu) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Sierra Leone.
Koidu 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/koidu/.
Location context: 8.64°N, 10.97°W; population 124,662; nearest indexed city Kenema is about 89 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 4,868 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.
Koidu is listed in the dataset snapshot as aligned with UTC (offset +00:00). 1 hour behind London, 9 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -10.97°, Koidu's mean solar noon falls about 44 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.
Koidu sits at 8.64°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Mid-sized city with around 125 thousand residents — busy enough to keep regular international business hours, small enough to retain a regional character. (Koidu city-proper figure.)
Related clock anchors for Koidu: Freetown (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 Koidu.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Koidu: closest hubs London (~4,868 km), São Paulo (~5,276 km), New York (~7,120 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~16,670 km).
Koidu sits inside Sierra Leone — the Western Africa subregion, capital Freetown, languages English, currency SLE (Le).
Closest indexed cities to Koidu: Kenema (89 km), Bo (113 km), Gbarnga (247 km), Freetown (250 km).
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Koidu, 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 |
Koidu is in the Africa/Freetown timezone (GMT), with a UTC offset of +00:00.
Koidu 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 Koidu is UTC+00:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Koidu, 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.
Koidu sits at 8.64°N, 10.97°W in Sierra Leone, with about 124.7K residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Koidu is London, about 4,868 km away as the crow flies.
Kenema is the closest indexed city, roughly 89 km from Koidu.
Koidu uses Leone (SLE, symbol Le) as the local currency of Sierra Leone.
The longest day of 2026 in Koidu falls on Jun 17 with about 12h 38m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 14 with 11h 37m; the year-round average is 12h 8m.
In Koidu 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.