| 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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Freetown, Sierra Leone runs on UTC+0. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+0 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Freetown 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 Freetown lines up with 09:00–14:00 in New York. The time difference between Freetown 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 Freetown lines up with 10:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Freetown 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 Freetown.
Freetown (Sierra Leone) is home to roughly 1.2M people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:41, sunset at 18:44. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+0 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 8° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Sierra Leone
Capital
Freetown 👑
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
GMT · Africa/Freetown
Coordinates
8.48°N, 13.23°W
Currency
SLE (Le)
Calling Code
+232
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Freetown was established in 1792 by around 1,200 formerly enslaved Black Loyalists resettled from Nova Scotia, after an earlier settlement failed. The name is literal.
The clock: Freetown keeps UTC+0 and sits on one of the largest natural harbours in the world.
Freetown lies at 13.2°W. Its time zone, UTC+0, is built around the prime meridian (0°). The 13.2° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 53 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:53 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 37m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 38m. The swing between them is 59 minutes. Within a few degrees of the equator the length of the day barely moves all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Freetown the sun comes up earliest on 28 May at 06:33, while the latest sunset waits until 16 July at 19:16. 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 Freetown 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 Freetown, Sierra Leone is Africa/Freetown with a current UTC offset of UTC+0.
Freetown has an estimated population of 1.2M and is located at coordinates 8.48°N, 13.23°W. It is the capital city of Sierra Leone.
Freetown gets 12h 37m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 38m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Freetown falls at about 12:53 on UTC+0 standard time, because the city sits 13.2° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City Founded by Freed Slaves: Freetown was established in 1792 by around 1,200 formerly enslaved Black Loyalists resettled from Nova Scotia, after an earlier settlement failed. The name is literal.