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Africa/Freetown

Africa/Freetown is the IANA time zone for Sierra Leone.

UTC+00:00

Tue, Sep 29 UTC+0 GMT

Offsets and daylight saving time

Standard offset
UTC+00:00
Rule
No daylight saving time: UTC+0 all year.

No clock changes are scheduled in the next three years.

Names

Generic name
Greenwich Mean Time
Abbreviation
GMT
Long name
Greenwich Mean Time

In the tz database, Africa/Freetown is a link (alias) to Africa/Abidjan: the two always show the same time.

Use it in code

// JavaScript
new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Africa/Freetown' })

# Python
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
ZoneInfo('Africa/Freetown')

-- PostgreSQL
SELECT now() AT TIME ZONE 'Africa/Freetown';

Cities in Africa/Freetown

Also in this zone: Kenema, Bo, Koidu, Makeni, Port Loko.

Offset history since 1970

  • 1970–2026: UTC+0

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