Africa/Abidjan time zone
- UTC offset now
- UTC±0
- Name
- Greenwich Mean Time
- Next clock change
- None scheduled in the next 3 years
- Current period in the database since
- 1912 Jan 1
- Daylight saving on record
- Never
When the clocks change
Africa/Abidjan doesn't change its clocks. It stays on UTC±0 all year.
Africa/Abidjan compared with major business clocks
The gap now, every date it changes in the next 12 months (including the weeks when the two places change clocks on different days), and shared work time on Wednesday, Oct 28 (Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM on both sides).
| Clock | Gap now | Gap changes to | Shared work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | −4 h | Nov 1, 2026: −5 h Mar 14, 2027: −4 h | 4 hours |
| London | ±0 h | Mar 28, 2027: +1 h Oct 31, 2027: ±0 h | 8 hours |
| India | +5.5 h | No change | 2 h 30 min |
| Tokyo | +9 h | No change | None |
| Los Angeles | −7 h | Nov 1, 2026: −8 h Mar 14, 2027: −7 h | 1 hour |
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The time zone database groups these places under Africa/Abidjan: Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Iceland, Mali, Mauritania, St Helena, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Togo.
Cities on WorldHourly: Reykjavík (Atlantic/Reykjavik) · Accra (Africa/Accra) · Dakar (Africa/Dakar)
Clock time vs. sun time
Solar noon (the sun at its highest) today, in local clock time. The further it is from 12:00, the more the clock runs ahead of or behind the sun.
| Place | Solar noon | Compared with 12:00 |
|---|---|---|
| Reykjavík | 1:11 PM | 71 min after clock noon |
| Accra | 11:44 AM | 15 min before clock noon |
| Dakar | 12:53 PM | 54 min after clock noon |
Identifiers and names
- IANA identifier
- Africa/Abidjan
- Older names that point here
- Africa/Accra, Africa/Bamako, Africa/Banjul, Africa/Conakry, Africa/Dakar, Africa/Freetown, Africa/Lome, Africa/Nouakchott, Africa/Ouagadougou, Africa/Timbuktu, Atlantic/Reykjavik, Atlantic/St_Helena, Iceland
- Windows time zone ID
- Greenwich Standard Time (CI, GH, ML, GM, GN, SN, SL, TG, MR, BF, IS, SH)
- Standard names (CLDR)
- Greenwich Mean Time
- Abbreviations now
- GMT
Recorded history
Every period in the time zone database for Africa/Abidjan. Records before 1970 can be incomplete.
| From | Until | Standard offset | Daylight saving | Abbreviations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earliest record | 1912 Jan 1 | UTC−0:16:08 | Standard time only | LMT |
| 1912 Jan 1 | Today | UTC±0 | Standard time only | GMT |
Rules, history and place groupings from the IANA time zone database, release 2026e (2026-09-29). Windows IDs and names from Unicode CLDR 49.0.0 (Unicode License v3). Solar noon from NOAA's solar equations. Live times use your browser's time zone data.