Time in Accra
Ghana · Africa/Accra · latitude 5.60°
Reading your clock…
Accra never changes its clocks
Accra stays on UTC+00:00 all year round. This is worth being careful about rather than relaxed about: the gap between Accra and a city that does observe daylight saving still moves twice a year, because the other end moved. A recurring call can drift by an hour without anything changing here at all.
Time difference from Accra
Where a range is shown, the gap genuinely changes during the year. That is not rounding or hedging — it is two governments moving their clocks on different weekends.
| City | Difference now | Across the year |
|---|---|---|
| London | 1 hour ahead | 0 / +1h |
| New York | 4 hours behind | −5h / −4h |
| Los Angeles | 7 hours behind | −8h / −7h |
| Chicago | 5 hours behind | −6h / −5h |
| Toronto | 4 hours behind | −5h / −4h |
| Paris | 2 hours ahead | +1h / +2h |
| Berlin | 2 hours ahead | +1h / +2h |
| Dubai | 4 hours ahead | constant |
| Mumbai | 5 hours 30 minutes ahead | constant |
| Singapore | 8 hours ahead | constant |
| Hong Kong | 8 hours ahead | constant |
| Tokyo | 9 hours ahead | constant |
| Sydney | 10 hours ahead | +10h / +11h |
| Auckland | 12 hours ahead | +12h / +13h |
| São Paulo | 3 hours behind | constant |
| UTC | the same time | constant |
Daylight in Accra through the year
From about 11.8 hours in December to 12.4 hours in June. This is the part a plain clock leaves out: 17:00 is a bright evening in one month and long dark in another.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 06:16 | 18:07 | 11h 51m |
| February | 06:15 | 18:14 | 11h 59m |
| March | 06:05 | 18:12 | 12h 7m |
| April | 05:51 | 18:07 | 12h 16m |
| May | 05:45 | 18:09 | 12h 24m |
| June | 05:48 | 18:15 | 12h 27m |
| July | 05:55 | 18:19 | 12h 24m |
| August | 05:56 | 18:12 | 12h 16m |
| September | 05:50 | 17:57 | 12h 7m |
| October | 05:46 | 17:44 | 11h 58m |
| November | 05:51 | 17:42 | 11h 51m |
| December | 06:04 | 17:52 | 11h 48m |
Daylight length is accurate. The clock times of sunrise and sunset assume each city sits at the centre of its time zone, which can put them up to about an hour and a quarter out for places near a zone's edge — Madrid being the standard example. Day length is unaffected.
Questions
About time in Accra
What time zone is Accra in?
Accra uses the IANA time zone Africa/Accra, a fixed UTC+00:00 with no daylight saving.
Does Accra observe daylight saving time?
No. Accra stays on UTC+00:00 all year. That does not mean the gap between Accra and other cities is fixed, though: when a city that does observe daylight saving changes its clocks, the difference between you and them moves even though nothing changed here.
Why does the time difference to Accra keep changing?
Because the two places do not change their clocks on the same weekend, and in opposite hemispheres they change in opposite directions. London is a clear example: it sits the same time, then 1 hour ahead across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Accra get?
Around 12.4 hours at the longest, in June, and about 11.8 hours at the shortest, in December. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Accra's latitude of 5.60° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.