Guédiawaye, Senegal · UTC+0
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Guédiawaye is in the Greenwich Mean Time timezone (GMT/UTC+0), year-round with no daylight saving.
Guédiawaye is one of the most densely populated areas in West Africa, a suburban city immediately north of Dakar. It runs on UTC+0, Greenwich Mean Time, year-round. Senegal does not observe daylight saving.
At UTC+0, Guédiawaye shares its clock with London in winter, Monrovia, and Abidjan. When London shifts to BST in summer, Guédiawaye stays at UTC+0, meaning Dakar briefly runs an hour behind London.
Dakar’s urban sprawl
Guédiawaye is administratively separate from Dakar but functions as part of the Dakar metropolitan area. The city grew rapidly through the late twentieth century as rural migration transformed the Cap-Vert peninsula. Population estimates vary, but the city has over 300,000 residents packed into a small footprint.
Daily commutes into Dakar are long. The ndeye, traditional peanut sellers, the thiéboudienne vendors, the tailors in their workshops: all start their commercial day early, often before 7am.
Solar time at 15 degrees North
Guédiawaye sits at 14.8 degrees North latitude. Day length variation across the year is modest: about 2.5 hours between the longest and shortest days. UTC+0 puts solar noon at around 12:45pm due to the city’s 17 degrees West longitude. This makes the working day start and end a bit later in solar terms than the clock suggests.
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Sources
- IANA Time Zone Database
- Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie du Sénégal
- Peil, Margaret. Lagos: The City Is the People. Belhaven Press, 1991.
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Questions about time in Guédiawaye
- What timezone is Guédiawaye in?
- Guédiawaye uses the IANA timezone
Africa/Dakar. The UTC offset is always UTC+0 — this timezone does not observe daylight saving time. - Does Guédiawaye observe daylight saving time?
- No. Guédiawaye does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC+0 all year round.
- What is the current UTC offset for Guédiawaye?
- Guédiawaye is currently at UTC+0.
- What is the time difference between Guédiawaye and New York?
- Guédiawaye is currently 4 hours ahead of New York.
- What is the time difference between Guédiawaye and London?
- Guédiawaye is currently 1 hour behind London.
- What is the time difference between Guédiawaye and Los Angeles?
- Guédiawaye is currently 7 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the time difference between Guédiawaye and Tokyo?
- Guédiawaye is currently 9 hours behind Tokyo.
- What is the IANA timezone name for Guédiawaye?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for Guédiawaye is
Africa/Dakar. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Africa/Dakar' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Africa/Dakar')`), or any IANA-compatible library.