Current time in Accra, Ghana
The current local time in Accra is shown below. Accra observes GMT.
What's the daylight saving status?
Accra does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- Africa/Accra
- Standard abbreviation
- GMT
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇬🇠Ghana
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Accra?
Ghana operates on Greenwich Mean Time at UTC+0 year-round with no daylight saving. The country's near-equatorial position (Accra sits at around 5.6 degrees north) produces little seasonal variation in day length. The Atlantic coast at the prime meridian's continental hemisphere makes the country's longitude (close to zero degrees) essentially coincident with Greenwich, an unusual case where civil time and solar time match closely. Ghana shares its offset with the UK, Iceland, and Portugal in winter, although those three observe DST.
What are the working hours in Accra?
Accra's working day runs 08:00 to 17:00 in the conventional sectors, with the substantial public sector around the ministerial district producing the most regular rhythm. The Ghanaian middle-class working culture is anchored by the cocoa-export economy (Ghana is the world's second-largest cocoa producer), an expanding technology sector around the Independence Square area, and a substantial diaspora-driven small-business community. Public holidays cluster around Christmas and the Easter period, the Independence Day on 6 March, and the August Republic Day commemorating the 1960 transition.
Where is Accra?
Accra sits on the Atlantic coast of West Africa in southern Ghana, on the lagoon-fringed shoreline of the Gulf of Guinea. The metropolitan area holds around 4.4 million residents, with the wider Greater Accra Region close to 6 million. The geography is unusually flat for a major coastal city, with the land rising gradually inland toward the Akwapim hills around 30 kilometres north. The Volta River reaches the coast around 100 kilometres east at Ada, where the man-made Lake Volta drains.