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9–17 in Dakar vs UTC
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- Fête du mouton27 May 2026
- Day of Ashura25 Jun 2026
- Magal de Touba1 Aug 2026
- Assomption15 Aug 2026
- Mawlid25 Aug 2026
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About Dakar
Home to roughly 1,146,053 residents, Dakar is a substantial regional city in Senegal. The city sits at 22 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
The Africa/Dakar zone governs civic time in Dakar; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. The tropical, northern-hemisphere setting at 14.72° latitude defines its day-length swing across the year — long summer evenings and shorter winter days.
Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent Dakar's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in Dakar
The current local time in Dakar, Senegal is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Dakar uses the IANA time zone Africa/Dakar, currently UTC+0.
Whether Dakar observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Africa/Dakar) is the source of truth.
Dakar is currently 4 hours ahead of New York.
Dakar is currently 1 hour behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Dakar are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (14.7167, -17.4677).
Currency and dialing-code information is not available for this entry.
Dakar sits at 14.7167° N, 17.4677° W, 22 m above sea level, in Senegal.