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Time in Ghana — regions, cities and time zones

Ghana observes Greenwich Mean Time, UTC+00:00, across the whole country and all year. There is no daylight saving and no regional variation, so Ghanaian time and Coordinated Universal Time read the same at every moment.

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Capital Accra · Africa · ISO GH / GHA

Accra, Ghana

Friday, 4 September 2026

UTC+0 · Africa/Accra

Time and sun data for Accra, Ghana

The sun in Accra

Sunrise 05:55 Solar noon 12:01 Sunset 18:07 Daylight 12 h 12 min Night 11 h 48 min Civil twilight 05:34 – 18:28

States and regions (18)

Current time in Accra

Accra sits close to both the equator and the prime meridian — an unusual pairing that puts the capital near the origin of the world's coordinate grid. Its clock reflects that: UTC+00:00, unmoved by season.

Everywhere else in the country reads the same. Kumasi in the Ashanti interior, Tamale in the north, Takoradi on the western coast and Ho in the Volta Region are all on one national hour.

Zero offset, and what it saves you

Being at UTC+00:00 makes Ghana a convenient anchor for anyone working across regions. A few things follow directly: Timestamps in logs, tickets and databases need no conversion for a Ghanaian reader. UTC-based deadlines land at the same wall-clock hour in Accra as they do on paper.

There is no spring or autumn day when a recurring meeting silently moves. Flight times quoted in UTC require no mental arithmetic on arrival. Ghana is the rare place where "what time is it in UTC?" and "what time is it out the window?" have the same answer.

No daylight saving, and good reason

Ghana does not shift its clocks for summer. Sitting a few degrees north of the equator, the country sees very little variation in day length across the year — sunrise and sunset stay close to the same hours in January and in July. Daylight saving exists to redistribute a large seasonal swing in daylight. Where there is no swing, there is nothing to redistribute.

This also removes an entire class of scheduling error. Nobody in Ghana needs to check whether a date falls before or after a transition, because there are no transitions.

Scheduling with Accra from a DST country

If your own country changes clocks, the gap to Ghana changes with you. The steps are simple but easy to skip: Note your current UTC offset, summer or winter version, whichever applies today. Apply it against Accra directly, since Accra is UTC+00:00.

Recheck standing appointments right after your own clock change — the difference will have moved by an hour. Britain is the classic case. For part of the year London and Accra read identically; for the rest, London is an hour ahead. Colleagues who assume the two cities are permanently in sync discover the error in late March, usually while joining a call.

Questions and answers
What time zone is Ghana in?
Greenwich Mean Time, UTC+00:00, nationwide.
Does Ghana observe daylight saving time?
No. The offset is fixed throughout the year.
Is Kumasi on a different time from Accra?
No. Ghana has a single time zone, so Kumasi, Tamale, Takoradi and Accra all share the same clock.

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