| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | ±0h | Becomes −1h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | +1h | Becomes ±0h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +3h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +8h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +9h | Becomes +10h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −5h | Becomes −6h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −8h | Becomes −9h on 1 Nov |
Libreville, Gabon runs on UTC+1. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Libreville and New York is 5 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 14:00–18:00 in Libreville lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Libreville and London currently share the same clock. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 9 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–18:00 in Libreville lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Libreville and Tokyo is 8 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hour a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–10:00 in Libreville lines up with 17:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Lagos, Kinshasa, Algiers. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Libreville.
Libreville (Gabon) is home to roughly 850K people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:08, sunset at 18:15. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 0° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Gabon
Capital
Libreville 👑
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+1 · Africa/Libreville
Coordinates
0.39°N, 9.45°E
Currency
XAF (FCFA)
Calling Code
+241
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Gabon is roughly 88% forested, one of the highest proportions in the world, and set aside 13 national parks at once in 2002 covering about 11% of national territory. Libreville is the base for most of that work.
The clock: Libreville keeps UTC+1 almost exactly on the equator, where the sun rises and sets within about half an hour of the same time every day of the year.
Libreville lies at 9.5°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 5.5° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 22 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:22 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+1 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 12h 9m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 12h 6m. The swing between them is 3 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 Libreville the sun comes up earliest on 1 November at 06:03, while the latest sunset waits until 14 February at 18:40. 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 Libreville 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 Libreville, Gabon is Africa/Libreville with a current UTC offset of UTC+1.
Libreville has an estimated population of 850K and is located at coordinates 0.39°N, 9.45°E. It is the capital city of Gabon.
Libreville gets 12h 9m of daylight on its longest day and 12h 6m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Libreville falls at about 12:22 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 5.5° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Rainforest Over Most of the Country: Gabon is roughly 88% forested, one of the highest proportions in the world, and set aside 13 national parks at once in 2002 covering about 11% of national territory. Libreville is the base for most of that work.