Current time in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau right now
It is 3:51 am in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼 right now, on Saturday, November 7, 2026. The city keeps Africa/Bissau, which is GMT at UTC+0, so Bissau is on UTC itself, where it is 3:51 am. The sun rose in Bissau at 6:57 am and sets at 6:35 pm, which is 11 hours 39 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Bissau right now?
The time in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau is 3:51 am, 03:51 on a 24 hour clock, on Saturday November 7, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Africa/Bissau rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Bissau sits at 11.86 degrees north and 15.60 degrees west, inside the tropics, north of the equator and 1,319 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 0.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 15.6 degrees west of that line. Those 15.6 degrees are worth 62 minutes 23 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:46 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Bissau time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Bissau, Guinea-Bissau is Africa/Bissau. Right now it is running at UTC+0 and the abbreviation in force is GMT. Bissau 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 Bissau ever needs a seasonal footnote.
Daylight hours in Bissau today
The sun rose in Bissau at 6:57 am and sets at 6:35 pm, which is 11 hours 39 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Bissau, is at 12:46 pm, which is 46 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -16.37 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 61.8 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Bissau |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 6:57 am |
| Sunset | 6:35 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:46 pm |
| Day length | 11 hours 39 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 6:06 pm to 6:49 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 6:57 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 Bissau, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Bissau 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 Bissau. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Bissau on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Bissau 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 Bissau.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Bissau |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 7:51 pm | -8 | 8 hours behind of Bissau |
| Chicago, Illinois | 9:51 pm | -6 | 6 hours behind of Bissau |
| New York, New York | 10:51 pm | -5 | 5 hours behind of Bissau |
| Toronto, Canada | 10:51 pm | -5 | 5 hours behind of Bissau |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 12:51 am | -3 | 3 hours behind of Bissau |
| London, United Kingdom | 3:51 am | 0 | same time as Bissau |
| Paris, France | 4:51 am | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Bissau |
| Berlin, Germany | 4:51 am | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Bissau |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 5:51 am | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Bissau |
| Moscow, Russia | 6:51 am | +3 | 3 hours ahead of Bissau |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 7:51 am | +4 | 4 hours ahead of Bissau |
| Delhi, India | 9:21 am | +5:30 | 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of Bissau |
| Singapore, Singapore | 11:51 am | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Bissau |
| Hong Kong, China | 11:51 am | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Bissau |
| Tokyo, Japan | 12:51 pm | +9 | 9 hours ahead of Bissau |
| Sydney, Australia | 2:51 pm | +11 | 11 hours ahead of Bissau |
Best time to call Bissau
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 Bissau | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -5 | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm |
| Los Angeles | -8 | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 10:00 am |
| London | 0 | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm |
| Delhi | +5:30 | 9:00 am to 12:30 pm | 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Sydney | +11 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
Other cities in Guinea-Bissau
Bissau is the only city we cover in Guinea-Bissau, so there is no second clock in the country to compare it against here. The full city index has its neighbours across the border.
Cities on Africa/Bissau time
Bissau is the only city in our catalogue on Africa/Bissau. Other cities may share its UTC+0 offset today without sharing its rules, which is the distinction that matters the moment a clock change comes round.
Moon phase over Bissau tonight
The moon is a waning crescent tonight, 27.5 days into its cycle and about 5% lit. The next full moon falls on November 24, 2026 at 2:53 pm Bissau time, and the next new moon on November 9, 2026 at 7:01 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Bissau clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Bissau
There is no clock change scheduled in Africa/Bissau within the next 400 days, so Bissau stays at UTC+0 for the whole of that stretch.
That makes Bissau 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 Bissau is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Bissau is Ziguinchor, Senegal at 107 km, and the furthest is Suva, Fiji at 18,354 km, which is 92% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ziguinchor, Senegal | 107 | 67 | north west | 3:51 am |
| Kolda, Senegal | 135 | 84 | north east | 3:51 am |
| Kamsar, Guinea | 172 | 107 | south east | 3:51 am |
| Serekunda, Gambia | 211 | 131 | north west | 3:51 am |
| Kaolack, Senegal | 260 | 161 | north | 3:51 am |
| Tambacounda, Senegal | 298 | 185 | north east | 3:51 am |
| Tiebo, Senegal | 316 | 196 | north | 3:51 am |
| Diourbel, Senegal | 317 | 197 | north | 3:51 am |
| Mbour, Senegal | 321 | 199 | north west | 3:51 am |
| Dubreka, Guinea | 323 | 201 | south east | 3:51 am |
The antipode of Bissau
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Bissau, Guinea-Bissau and you come out at 11.86 degrees south, 164.40 degrees east. That point is in the South Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Suva, Fiji, 1,661 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 3:51 pm on Saturday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 11.86 degrees north becomes 11.86 degrees south, and 15.60 degrees west becomes 164.40 degrees east. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Bissau is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC+12, roughly twelve hours from Bissau, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Bissau
Today the sun rises in Bissau at 6:57 am and sets at 6:35 pm, giving 11 hours 39 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 Bissau.
Sun and moon in Bissau today
The sun is up in Bissau for 11 hours 39 minutes today, from 6:57 am to 6:35 pm. The moon rises in Bissau at 5:18 am and sets at 5:16 pm. The next phase is the new moon on November 9, 2026. It is 3% lit at the moment, a waning crescent, thinning by about 3.8 percentage points a day.
| Sun | Time in Bissau |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:44 am |
| Nautical dawn | 6:09 am |
| Civil dawn | 6:35 am |
| Sunrise | 6:57 am |
| Solar noon | 12:46 pm |
| Sunset | 6:35 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:57 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 7:23 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:48 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 Bissau | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 6:35 am to 6:43 am | 0h 08m |
| Morning golden hour | 6:43 am to 7:26 am | 0h 43m |
| Evening golden hour | 6:06 pm to 6:49 pm | 0h 43m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:49 pm to 6:57 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 Bissau |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 5:18 am |
| Moonset | 5:16 pm |
| Phase | waning crescent, waning |
| Illumination | 3% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 27.8 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 392,100 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: Bissau and four other places
Every hour of Saturday, November 7, 2026 in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, read across 4 other places. Columns are Bissau 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.
Change the places or the date
| Bissau 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BissauGMT 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 AngelesPST UTC-8 | 16-1 | 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 |
| New YorkEST UTC-5 | 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 | 17 | 18 |
| 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 |
| SingaporeSGT UTC+8 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0+1 | 1+1 | 2+1 | 3+1 | 4+1 | 5+1 | 6+1 | 7+1 |
No hour on Saturday, November 7, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Los Angeles and Singapore are 16 hours apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 2 of 5: from 4:00 am in Bissau it is working hours in Delhi and Singapore, but outside them in Bissau, Los Angeles and New York. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Bissau
Seven days from November 7, 2026, computed for Bissau, Guinea-Bissau at 11.86 degrees north, 15.60 degrees west, on the clock of Africa/Bissau. 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 November 7 | 5:44 am | 6:57 am | 12:46 pm | 4:06 pm | 6:35 pm | 7:44 pm |
| Sunday November 8 | 5:44 am | 6:57 am | 12:46 pm | 4:06 pm | 6:35 pm | 7:44 pm |
| Monday November 9 | 5:44 am | 6:57 am | 12:46 pm | 4:06 pm | 6:35 pm | 7:44 pm |
| Tuesday November 10 | 5:45 am | 6:58 am | 12:46 pm | 4:06 pm | 6:35 pm | 7:44 pm |
| Wednesday November 11 | 5:45 am | 6:58 am | 12:46 pm | 4:06 pm | 6:35 pm | 7:44 pm |
| Thursday November 12 | 5:45 am | 6:58 am | 12:46 pm | 4:06 pm | 6:35 pm | 7:44 pm |
| Friday November 13 | 5:45 am | 6:59 am | 12:47 pm | 4:06 pm | 6:34 pm | 7:44 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, 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 Bissau
From Bissau, Guinea-Bissau the qibla is 72.0 degrees on a true compass, which is east-northeast, or 18.0 degrees north of due east. The Kaaba is 5,971 km away, 3,710 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Bissau, Guinea-Bissau 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 Bissau, Guinea-Bissau 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 Bissau clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Africa/Bissau from the time zone database, so it stays right when Bissau 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.
The box needs 183 pixels of height for these settings, which is what the code above sets, and the numbers show at full size from 305 pixels of width up. Narrower than that they scale down rather than wrapping, and turning a line off makes the box shorter. The code updates with either.
Bissau time now: common questions
- What time is it in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau right now?
- 3:51 am on Saturday November 7, 2026. Bissau runs on GMT, UTC+0.
- What time zone is Bissau in?
- Africa/Bissau, currently GMT at UTC+0. 1 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Bissau?
- UTC+0 at this instant. It is UTC+0 all year round, with no seasonal change.
- Does Bissau observe daylight saving time?
- No. Bissau stays on UTC+0 for the whole year.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Bissau of New York?
- Bissau is 5 hours ahead of New York, where it is 10:51 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Bissau today?
- 6:35 pm, after a sunrise at 6:57 am and 11 hours 39 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Bissau?
- 11.86 degrees south, 164.40 degrees east, in the South Pacific Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Bissau from London?
- Between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm in Bissau, which is 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in London.
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