Local time in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
Current local time in Burkina Faso (GMT (UTC+0)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — Ouagadougou
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Differences are relative to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Burkina Faso
- Standard label
- GMT (UTC+0)
- Standard offset (Ouagadougou)
- UTC+0
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- Ouagadougou
- IANA zones
- Africa/Abidjan
Burkina Faso uses GMT (UTC+0) as its standard time. Clocks stay on the same offset all year round — daylight saving time is not observed. Times on this page are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database, so they always match the real current time in Burkina Faso.
Sunrise and sunset in Ouagadougou
At 12.4° north, Ouagadougou gets 12 h 51 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 11 h 24 min around the December solstice — a difference of 1 h 27 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 06:33 | 12:18 | 18:03 | 11 h 31 min |
| 21 February | 06:27 | 12:21 | 18:15 | 11 h 48 min |
| 21 March | 06:11 | 12:14 | 18:18 | 12 h 07 min |
| 21 April | 05:51 | 12:05 | 18:19 | 12 h 28 min |
| 21 May | 05:42 | 12:04 | 18:26 | 12 h 44 min |
| 21 June | 05:43 | 12:09 | 18:34 | 12 h 51 min |
| 21 July | 05:51 | 12:13 | 18:36 | 12 h 45 min |
| 21 August | 05:56 | 12:10 | 18:25 | 12 h 29 min |
| 21 September | 05:56 | 12:00 | 18:04 | 12 h 08 min |
| 21 October | 05:57 | 11:51 | 17:45 | 11 h 48 min |
| 21 November | 06:07 | 11:53 | 17:38 | 11 h 31 min |
| 21 December | 06:23 | 12:05 | 17:47 | 11 h 24 min |
Calculated for Ouagadougou (12.37°, -1.53°; coordinates from Wikidata) with the standard solar-position formulas used by NOAA, for a sea-level horizon. Results are accurate to about a minute; hills, buildings and altitude shift what you actually see. Times change by only a minute or two from year to year.
Daylight saving time in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso does not change its clocks: it stays on GMT (UTC+0) all year in 2026 and 2027.
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.