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9–17 in Accra vs UTC
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- Founders Day4 Aug 2026
- Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day21 Sept 2026
- Farmers Day4 Dec 2026
- Christmas Day25 Dec 2026
- Boxing Day26 Dec 2026
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About Accra
Home to roughly 2,291,352 residents, Accra is a populous capital of commerce in Ghana. The city sits at 61 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
The Africa/Accra zone governs civic time in Accra; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. The equatorial, northern-hemisphere setting at 5.60° latitude defines its day-length swing across the year — long summer evenings and shorter winter days.
This page exposes Accra's exact local time alongside sunrise, sunset, public holidays, and a structured-data feed at the JSON link below — useful for spreadsheets, scheduling tools, and AI assistants alike.
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Questions about time in Accra
The current local time in Accra, Ghana is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Accra uses the IANA time zone Africa/Accra, currently UTC+0.
Whether Accra observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Africa/Accra) is the source of truth.
Accra is currently 4 hours ahead of New York.
Accra is currently 1 hour behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Accra are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (5.6037, -0.1870).
Currency and dialing-code information is not available for this entry.
Accra sits at 5.6037° N, 0.1870° W, 61 m above sea level, in Ghana.