| 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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Bissau, Guinea-Bissau runs on UTC+0. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+0 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Bissau 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 Bissau lines up with 09:00–14:00 in New York. The time difference between Bissau 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 Bissau lines up with 10:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Bissau 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 Bissau.
Bissau (Guinea-Bissau) is home to roughly 490K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:51, sunset at 18:53. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+0 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 12° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Guinea-Bissau
Capital
Bissau 👑
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
GMT · Africa/Bissau
Coordinates
11.86°N, 15.60°W
Currency
XOF (CFA)
Calling Code
+245
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Portuguese
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Bijagós archipelago off Bissau holds 88 islands, around twenty of them inhabited, and is a UNESCO biosphere reserve. Its Bijagó society is matrilineal, with women choosing husbands and holding religious authority.
The clock: Bissau keeps UTC+0. Guinea-Bissau produces a large share of the world's cashew nuts, which dominate its exports.
Bissau lies at 15.6°W. Its time zone, UTC+0, is built around the prime meridian (0°). The 15.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 62 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 13:02 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 49m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 26m. The swing between them is 1h 24m. 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 Bissau the sun comes up earliest on 1 June at 06:37, while the latest sunset waits until 13 July at 19:31. 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 Bissau 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 Bissau, Guinea-Bissau is Africa/Bissau with a current UTC offset of UTC+0.
Bissau has an estimated population of 490K and is located at coordinates 11.86°N, 15.60°W. It is the capital city of Guinea-Bissau.
Bissau gets 12h 49m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 26m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Bissau falls at about 13:02 on UTC+0 standard time, because the city sits 15.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
An Archipelago of Eighty-Eight Islands: The Bijagós archipelago off Bissau holds 88 islands, around twenty of them inhabited, and is a UNESCO biosphere reserve. Its Bijagó society is matrilineal, with women choosing husbands and holding religious authority.