🇸🇱 Time in Sierra Leone

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12:21:16

Thursday, 13 August 2026

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Capital City: Freetown

Largest Cities:

ISO Alpha-2: SL

ISO Alpha-3: SLE

IANA Time Zone: Africa/Abidjan (UTC+00:00)

Time Zones: GMT

Provinces in Sierra Leone

Eastern Province North West Northern Province Southern Province Western Area

Time Now in Major Cities in Sierra Leone

CityCurrent Time
Bo Thu 12:21:16
Freetown Thu 12:21:16
Kenema Thu 12:21:16
Koidu Thu 12:21:16
Makeni Thu 12:21:16

Time Now in All IANA Timezones for Sierra Leone

TimezoneCurrent Time
Africa/Abidjan Thu 12:21:16
Africa/Freetown Thu 12:21:16

Sunrise and Sunset in Sierra Leone (5 Locations)

City ↑ Sunrise ↓ Sunset
Bo
↑ 6:40 AM
↓ 7:03 PM
Freetown
↑ 6:45 AM
↓ 7:09 PM
Kenema
↑ 6:38 AM
↓ 7:01 PM
Koidu
↑ 6:36 AM
↓ 7:01 PM
Makeni
↑ 6:40 AM
↓ 7:05 PM

Current Weather in Sierra Leone (5 Locations)

City Condition Temp.

Information about Sierra Leone

Population 7,650,154
Area 71,740 km²
ISO Numeric Code 694
FIPS Code SL
Top Level Domain .sl
Currency Leone (SLE)
Phone Prefix +232
Country Code +232
Languages EN-SL (en-SL), MEN (men), TEM (tem)
Neighbouring Countries 🇬🇳 Guinea, 🇱🇷 Liberia

Upcoming Public Holidays in Sierra Leone

This year, Sierra Leone observes 14 public holidays, with 17 scheduled for 2027. The next holiday is Prophet's Birthday (estimated) on 25 Aug. The most recently passed holiday was Eid al-Adha (estimated). Explore the full calendar of Public Holidays in Sierra Leone to plan your schedule.

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FAQ — Sierra Leone

Common questions about this page — answers customized for the data shown above.

The clocks at the top of this page show the current local time in Sierra Leone, updated live. Sierra Leone uses Africa/Abidjan (GMT) — UTC+00:00.

Sierra Leone spans 2 time zones. The full list of time zones and the current local time in each is shown above on this page. Countries split into multiple time zones for geographic, political, or historical reasons — wider east-west spans usually mean more zones.

The capital of Sierra Leone is Freetown. Click through for the current local time in Freetown, plus sunrise, sunset and weather details for the capital.

The most populous cities in Sierra Leone include Freetown, Bo, Kenema, Koidu and Makeni. Each city page shows current local time, sunrise/sunset, and weather.

Sierra Leone observes 14 public holidays this year. The full list — fixed and movable, religious and secular, national and regional — is on the Sierra Leone public holidays page.

Sierra Leone's ISO 3166-1 country codes are: alpha-2 code SL and alpha-3 code SLE. These codes are used in address fields, web domains (ccTLD), phone country lookups, and any international data interchange referring to this country. The Sierra Leone calendar also uses these as identifiers.

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