Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso · UTC+0
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Ouagadougou is in the Greenwich Mean Time timezone (GMT/UTC+0). Burkina Faso observes no daylight saving, keeping a fixed clock year-round.
Ouagadougou, known locally as Ouaga, is the capital of Burkina Faso and one of West Africa’s more distinct cities, less shaped by French colonial grandeur than Dakar or Abidjan and more defined by its Mossi kingdom history and its position at the center of the Sahelian trade networks. The Grand Marché and the surrounding areas move with a density and energy that the wide colonial avenues elsewhere in the city don’t predict.
Burkina Faso runs on Greenwich Mean Time, UTC+0, year-round. The IANA identifier Africa/Ouagadougou designates the capital. No daylight saving applies. At 12.4 degrees north, the city’s daylight ranges from about 11 to 13 hours across the year.
The Sahel has two seasons that matter more than the clock: the dry season (October through May) when the harmattan brings dusty air from the north and temperatures can exceed 40 degrees, and the wet season (June through September) when the rains arrive and the landscape briefly turns green. The mango harvest in April and May is one of the year’s most anticipated moments: the mangoes come before the rains, during the hottest part of the year, and they are extraordinary.
FESPACO and a city on its own cultural clock
The FESPACO Pan-African Film and Television Festival, held in Ouagadougou every two years in February, is the largest film festival on the African continent, running its own cinematic clock for two weeks.
9am in Ouagadougou is 9am in London.
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Questions about time in Ouagadougou
- What timezone is Ouagadougou in?
- Ouagadougou uses the IANA timezone
Africa/Ouagadougou. The UTC offset is always UTC+0 — this timezone does not observe daylight saving time. - Does Ouagadougou observe daylight saving time?
- No. Ouagadougou does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC+0 all year round.
- What is the current UTC offset for Ouagadougou?
- Ouagadougou is currently at UTC+0.
- What is the time difference between Ouagadougou and New York?
- Ouagadougou is currently 4 hours ahead of New York.
- What is the time difference between Ouagadougou and London?
- Ouagadougou is currently 1 hour behind London.
- What is the time difference between Ouagadougou and Los Angeles?
- Ouagadougou is currently 7 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the time difference between Ouagadougou and Tokyo?
- Ouagadougou is currently 9 hours behind Tokyo.
- What is the IANA timezone name for Ouagadougou?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for Ouagadougou is
Africa/Ouagadougou. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Africa/Ouagadougou' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Africa/Ouagadougou')`), or any IANA-compatible library.