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Saint-Louis, Senegal

Saint-Louis Region keeps Greenwich Mean Time, or UTC+0, all year. No daylight-saving adjustment is made, so local clocks do not jump forward or backward with the seasons.

Saint-Louis, Senegal

Friday, 4 September 2026

UTC+0 · Africa/Dakar

Time and sun data for Saint-Louis — the largest city of Saint-Louis

The sun in Saint-Louis

Sunrise 06:55 Solar noon 13:06 Sunset 19:18 Daylight 12 h 24 min Night 11 h 36 min Civil twilight 06:33 – 19:40

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Current time in Saint-Louis, Senegal

Saint-Louis Region keeps Greenwich Mean Time, or UTC+0, all year. No daylight-saving adjustment is made, so local clocks do not jump forward or backward with the seasons. Saint-Louis city, Richard-Toll, Dagana, Podor, and the region’s other communities all share the same official time. This is also the time used in Dakar and everywhere else in Senegal. Travelling into Saint-Louis Region from another part of the country therefore requires no watch adjustment.

International comparisons need more care. Saint-Louis remains on UTC+0, but a city abroad may alternate between standard time and summer time. The difference shown in January may consequently differ from the one shown later in the year. A live converter should use both the destination and the meeting date.

Saint-Louis does not chase summer around the clock face; visitors can leave that exercise to their home time zone.

Urban centres across Saint-Louis Region

The regional capital is Saint-Louis, situated near the mouth of the Senegal River. Other notable towns lie inland along the river corridor and serve different departments. When a service asks for a city rather than a region, these are useful local choices:

Saint-Louis, capital of the region and Saint-Louis Department; Richard-Toll, in Dagana Department; Dagana, the departmental seat; Podor, the seat of Podor Department; Ndioum, a commune in the Podor area.

The list is intended as a practical geographic guide, not a fixed population ranking. Definitions of “city” and the boundaries used for population comparisons can vary. Whatever settlement is selected, the time-zone result remains GMT. What changes from place to place is the timing of sunrise and sunset.

Finding sunrise for the right place

Sunrise tables should always be read with a date and location attached. Saint-Louis city is farther west than many inland communities in the region, so its solar times should not be copied blindly to Podor or Richard-Toll. Even though every clock shows the same zone, the Sun does not cross each local horizon simultaneously.

Select the nearest named town to the observation point. Verify that the country is Senegal, since Saint-Louis is also used in other place names. Confirm GMT or UTC+0 as the displayed zone. Refresh the calculation for the day being planned.

Atmospheric conditions and the definition used for sunrise can also produce minor differences among services. For travel, photography, or work beginning at dawn, treat the published time as a planning value and allow a sensible margin. Seasonal movement in sunrise is normal and does not indicate a clock change.

Questions and answers
Is Saint-Louis in the same time zone as Dakar?
Yes. Both use GMT, equivalent to UTC+0.
When are clocks changed in Saint-Louis?
They are not changed for daylight-saving time.
Can one sunrise time cover the whole region?
No. Use the closest locality because longitude, latitude, date, and the chosen calculation affect the result.

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