| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | +1h | Becomes ±0h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | +2h | Becomes +1h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +4h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +9h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +10h | Becomes +11h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −4h | Becomes −5h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −7h | Becomes −8h on 1 Nov |
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Bamako, Mali runs on UTC+0. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+0 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Bamako and New York is 4 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 5 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 13:00–18:00 in Bamako lines up with 09:00–14:00 in New York. The time difference between Bamako and London is 1 hour. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 8 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–17:00 in Bamako lines up with 10:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Bamako and Tokyo is 9 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with Tokyo, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Reykjavík, Casablanca, Accra. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Bamako.
Bamako (Mali) is home to roughly 2.8M people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:21, sunset at 18:22. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+0 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 13° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Mali
Capital
Bamako 👑
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
GMT · Africa/Bamako
Coordinates
12.64°N, 8.00°W
Currency
XOF (CFA)
Calling Code
+223
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Bambara, French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Mali's manuscript tradition produced hundreds of thousands of texts, and when Timbuktu fell in 2012 roughly 350,000 manuscripts were smuggled to Bamako in metal trunks, by river and road, to keep them from being destroyed.
The clock: Bamako keeps UTC+0 on the Niger river, and is among the fastest-growing cities in Africa.
Bamako lies at 8.0°W. Its time zone, UTC+0, is built around the prime meridian (0°). The 8.0° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 32 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:32 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+0 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 12h 52m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 23m. The swing between them is 1h 29m. Inside the tropics the day length stays within a narrow band all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Bamako the sun comes up earliest on 1 June at 06:05, while the latest sunset waits until 12 July at 19:02. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Bamako that civil twilight runs about 21 minutes at the equinox.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Bamako, Mali is Africa/Bamako with a current UTC offset of UTC+0.
Bamako has an estimated population of 2.8M and is located at coordinates 12.64°N, 8.00°W. It is the capital city of Mali.
Bamako gets 12h 52m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 23m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Bamako falls at about 12:32 on UTC+0 standard time, because the city sits 8.0° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A River That Made a Library: Mali's manuscript tradition produced hundreds of thousands of texts, and when Timbuktu fell in 2012 roughly 350,000 manuscripts were smuggled to Bamako in metal trunks, by river and road, to keep them from being…