Current time in Freetown, Sierra Leone right now
It is 9:04 pm in Freetown, Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 right now, on Saturday, September 26, 2026. The city keeps Africa/Freetown, which is GMT at UTC+0, so Freetown is on UTC itself, where it is 9:04 pm. The sun rose in Freetown at 6:42 am and sets at 6:47 pm, which is 12 hours 5 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Freetown right now?
The time in Freetown, Sierra Leone is 9:04 pm, 21:04 on a 24 hour clock, on Saturday September 26, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Africa/Freetown rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Freetown sits at 8.49 degrees north and 13.24 degrees west, inside the tropics, north of the equator and 944 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 0.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 13.2 degrees west of that line. Those 13.2 degrees are worth 52 minutes 57 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:44 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Freetown time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Freetown, Sierra Leone is Africa/Freetown. Right now it is running at UTC+0 and the abbreviation in force is GMT. Freetown does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC+0 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving Freetown ever needs a seasonal footnote.
Daylight hours in Freetown today
The sun rose in Freetown at 6:42 am and sets at 6:47 pm, which is 12 hours 5 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Freetown, is at 12:44 pm, which is 44 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.37 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 80.1 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Freetown |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 6:42 am |
| Sunset | 6:47 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:44 pm |
| Day length | 12 hours 5 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 6:19 pm to 6:59 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 7:08 pm |
The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Freetown, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Freetown is on the map
The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.
An interactive map of Freetown. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Freetown on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Freetown and major cities
Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Freetown.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Freetown |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 2:04 pm | -7 | 7 hours behind of Freetown |
| Chicago, Illinois | 4:04 pm | -5 | 5 hours behind of Freetown |
| New York, New York | 5:04 pm | -4 | 4 hours behind of Freetown |
| Toronto, Canada | 5:04 pm | -4 | 4 hours behind of Freetown |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 6:04 pm | -3 | 3 hours behind of Freetown |
| London, United Kingdom | 10:04 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Freetown |
| Paris, France | 11:04 pm | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Freetown |
| Berlin, Germany | 11:04 pm | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Freetown |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 11:04 pm | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Freetown |
| Moscow, Russia | 12:04 am | +3 | 3 hours ahead of Freetown |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 1:04 am | +4 | 4 hours ahead of Freetown |
| Delhi, India | 2:34 am | +5:30 | 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of Freetown |
| Singapore, Singapore | 5:04 am | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Freetown |
| Hong Kong, China | 5:04 am | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Freetown |
| Tokyo, Japan | 6:04 am | +9 | 9 hours ahead of Freetown |
| Sydney, Australia | 7:04 am | +10 | 10 hours ahead of Freetown |
Best time to call Freetown
Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Freetown | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -4 | 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 2:00 pm |
| Los Angeles | -7 | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 11:00 am |
| London | +1 | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm |
| Delhi | +5:30 | 9:00 am to 12:30 pm | 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Sydney | +10 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
Other cities in Sierra Leone
We cover 4 cities in Sierra Leone. These are the ones nearest to Freetown, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bo | Southern Province | 9:04 pm | UTC+0 |
| Kenema | Eastern Province | 9:04 pm | UTC+0 |
| Koidu | Eastern Province | 9:04 pm | UTC+0 |
Cities on Africa/Freetown time
4 of our cities keep Africa/Freetown, so every one of them reads 9:04 pm at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Freetown. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Freetown |
|---|---|---|
| Bo, Sierra Leone | 9:04 pm | 175 km |
| Kenema, Sierra Leone | 9:04 pm | 235 km |
| Koidu, Sierra Leone | 9:04 pm | 250 km |
Moon phase over Freetown tonight
The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 15.7 days into its cycle and about 99% lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 at 4:11 am Freetown time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 3:49 pm. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Freetown clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Freetown
There is no clock change scheduled in Africa/Freetown within the next 400 days, so Freetown stays at UTC+0 for the whole of that stretch.
That makes Freetown an easy city to schedule against: a meeting fixed at a given hour here holds its relationship to UTC all year, and only the other end of the call can move.
How far Freetown is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Freetown is Conakry, Guinea at 127 km, and the furthest is Suva, Fiji at 18,359 km, which is 92% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conakry, Guinea | 127 | 79 | north west | 9:04 pm |
| Camayenne, Guinea | 127 | 79 | north west | 9:04 pm |
| Dixinn, Guinea | 128 | 79 | north | 9:04 pm |
| Maneah, Guinea | 140 | 87 | north | 9:04 pm |
| Dubreka, Guinea | 148 | 92 | north | 9:04 pm |
| Bo, Sierra Leone | 175 | 109 | east | 9:04 pm |
| Kindia, Guinea | 179 | 111 | north | 9:04 pm |
| Kenema, Sierra Leone | 235 | 146 | east | 9:04 pm |
| Koidu, Sierra Leone | 250 | 155 | east | 9:04 pm |
| Kamsar, Guinea | 284 | 177 | north west | 9:04 pm |
The antipode of Freetown
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Freetown, Sierra Leone and you come out at 8.49 degrees south, 166.76 degrees east. That point is in the South Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Suva, Fiji, 1,656 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 9:04 am on Sunday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 8.49 degrees north becomes 8.49 degrees south, and 13.24 degrees west becomes 166.76 degrees east. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Freetown is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC+12, roughly twelve hours from Freetown, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Freetown
Today the sun rises in Freetown at 6:42 am and sets at 6:47 pm, giving 12 hours 5 minutes of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Freetown.
Weather in Freetown right now
27°C (81°F), rain showers
| Conditions | Rain showers |
|---|---|
| Wind | 23 km/h (15 mph) from the SW, a moderate breeze |
| Humidity | 80% |
| Cloud cover | 76% |
| Pressure | 1012 hPa |
| Rain in the next hour | 0.5 mm |
Reading taken 6 hours ago, local time 3 PM in Freetown.
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Hourly forecast for Freetown
The next 21 hours, in Freetown local time. Temperatures are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- 9 PM 26°C 79°F Cloudy 14 km/h
- 10 PM 26°C 79°F Cloudy 13 km/h
- 11 PM 26°C 79°F Rain 13 km/h 0.4 mm
- 12 AM 26°C 78°F Light rain showers 12 km/h 0.2 mm
- 1 AM 25°C 78°F Partly cloudy 13 km/h
- 2 AM 25°C 78°F Partly cloudy 13 km/h
- 3 AM 26°C 78°F Light rain 13 km/h 0.2 mm
- 4 AM 26°C 78°F Heavy rain 13 km/h 1.2 mm
- 5 AM 25°C 77°F Heavy rain 13 km/h 1.0 mm
- 6 AM 25°C 77°F Rain 11 km/h 0.7 mm
- 7 AM 25°C 77°F Rain 9 km/h 0.6 mm
- 8 AM 25°C 77°F Rain 8 km/h 0.5 mm
- 9 AM 25°C 77°F Rain 10 km/h 0.5 mm
- 10 AM 25°C 78°F Rain showers 12 km/h 0.3 mm
- 11 AM 26°C 79°F Light rain showers 12 km/h 0.2 mm
- 12 PM 26°C 79°F Partly cloudy 11 km/h
- 1 PM 26°C 80°F Rain showers 15 km/h 0.3 mm
- 2 PM 26°C 79°F Rain showers 17 km/h 0.4 mm
- 3 PM 26°C 79°F Rain 22 km/h 0.6 mm
- 4 PM 26°C 79°F Light rain 24 km/h 0.2 mm
- 5 PM 26°C 79°F Light rain 24 km/h 0.2 mm
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
7-day forecast for Freetown
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 26 Sep | 27°C / 81°F | 26°C / 79°F | Rain showers | 1.3 mm |
| Sun 27 Sep | 26°C / 80°F | 25°C / 77°F | Partly cloudy | 12.0 mm |
| Mon 28 Sep | 26°C / 79°F | 24°C / 76°F | Heavy rain | 26.4 mm |
| Tue 29 Sep | 27°C / 80°F | 26°C / 79°F | Rain showers | 4.2 mm |
| Wed 30 Sep | 27°C / 81°F | 26°C / 79°F | Rain showers | 4.5 mm |
| Thu 1 Oct | 27°C / 81°F | 25°C / 77°F | Rain showers | 8.3 mm |
| Fri 2 Oct | 27°C / 80°F | 25°C / 76°F | Rain showers | 9.1 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in Freetown today
The sun is up in Freetown for 12 hours 5 minutes today, from 6:42 am to 6:47 pm. The moon sets in Freetown at 6:21 am and comes up again at 6:41 pm. The next phase is the full moon on September 26, 2026. The moon is full, or as near to it as makes no difference, and the whole of the face turned towards us is lit.
| Sun | Time in Freetown |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:32 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:57 am |
| Civil dawn | 6:21 am |
| Sunrise | 6:42 am |
| Solar noon | 12:44 pm |
| Sunset | 6:47 pm |
| Civil dusk | 7:08 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 7:32 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:56 pm |
Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.
| Light band | Time in Freetown | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 6:21 am to 6:29 am | 0h 08m |
| Morning golden hour | 6:29 am to 7:09 am | 0h 40m |
| Evening golden hour | 6:19 pm to 6:59 pm | 0h 40m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:59 pm to 7:08 pm | 0h 08m |
Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.
| Moon | Reading in Freetown |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:41 pm |
| Moonset | 6:21 am |
| Phase | waning gibbous, waxing |
| Illumination | 100% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 15.4 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 380,200 km |
Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.
Meeting planner: Freetown and four other places
Every hour of Saturday, September 26, 2026 in Freetown, Sierra Leone, read across 4 other places. Columns are Freetown local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
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| Freetown local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FreetownGMT UTC+0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPDT UTC-7 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| LondonBST UTC+1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0+1 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 5:30 | 6:30 | 7:30 | 8:30 | 9:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 22:30 | 23:30 | 0:30+1 | 1:30+1 | 2:30+1 | 3:30+1 | 4:30+1 |
No hour on Saturday, September 26, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Los Angeles and Delhi are 12 hours 30 minutes apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 9:00 am in Freetown it is working hours in Freetown, London and Delhi, but outside them in Los Angeles and New York. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Freetown
Seven days from September 26, 2026, computed for Freetown, Sierra Leone at 8.49 degrees north, 13.24 degrees west, on the clock of Africa/Freetown. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday September 26 | 5:32 am | 6:42 am | 12:44 pm | 3:59 pm | 6:47 pm | 7:52 pm |
| Sunday September 27 | 5:32 am | 6:42 am | 12:44 pm | 3:59 pm | 6:46 pm | 7:51 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 5:32 am | 6:42 am | 12:44 pm | 3:59 pm | 6:46 pm | 7:51 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 5:32 am | 6:41 am | 12:43 pm | 3:59 pm | 6:45 pm | 7:50 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 5:32 am | 6:41 am | 12:43 pm | 3:59 pm | 6:44 pm | 7:50 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 5:32 am | 6:41 am | 12:43 pm | 3:59 pm | 6:44 pm | 7:49 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 5:32 am | 6:41 am | 12:42 pm | 3:59 pm | 6:43 pm | 7:49 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Freetown, Sierra Leone, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.
Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.
Qibla direction from Freetown
From Freetown, Sierra Leone the qibla is 69.5 degrees on a true compass, which is east-northeast, or 20.5 degrees north of due east. The Kaaba is 5,850 km away, 3,635 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Freetown, Sierra Leone to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.
The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Freetown, Sierra Leone before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.
Put a Freetown clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Freetown, Sierra Leone, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Africa/Freetown from the time zone database, so it stays right when Freetown changes its clocks, and it shows GMT to every visitor wherever they are reading from. It is a plain iframe: no account, no script to install, nothing to pay.
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Freetown time now: common questions
- What time is it in Freetown, Sierra Leone right now?
- 9:04 pm on Saturday September 26, 2026. Freetown runs on GMT, UTC+0.
- What time zone is Freetown in?
- Africa/Freetown, currently GMT at UTC+0. 4 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Freetown?
- UTC+0 at this instant. It is UTC+0 all year round, with no seasonal change.
- Does Freetown observe daylight saving time?
- No. Freetown stays on UTC+0 for the whole year.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Freetown of New York?
- Freetown is 4 hours ahead of New York, where it is 5:04 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Freetown today?
- 6:47 pm, after a sunrise at 6:42 am and 12 hours 5 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Freetown?
- 8.49 degrees south, 166.76 degrees east, in the South Pacific Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Freetown from London?
- Between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm in Freetown, which is 10:00 am to 6:00 pm in London.
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