🇪🇭 Time in Western Sahara

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08:44:54

Friday, 2 October 2026

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Capital City: Laayoune (El Aaiun)

Largest Cities:

ISO Alpha-2: EH

ISO Alpha-3: ESH

IANA Time Zone: Africa/El_Aaiun (UTC+01:00)

Time Now in Major Cities in Western Sahara

CityCurrent Time
Boujdour Fri 08:44:54
Dakhla Fri 08:44:54
Laayoune Fri 08:44:54
Laayoune (El Aaiun) Fri 08:44:54
Laayoune Plage Fri 08:44:54

Time Now in All IANA Timezones for Western Sahara

TimezoneCurrent Time
Africa/El_Aaiun Fri 08:44:54

Sunrise and Sunset in Western Sahara (5 Locations)

City ↑ Sunrise ↓ Sunset
Boujdour
↑ 7:50 AM
↓ 7:43 PM
Dakhla
↑ 7:56 AM
↓ 7:49 PM
Laayoune
↑ 7:46 AM
↓ 7:37 PM
Laayoune (El Aaiun)
↑ 7:46 AM
↓ 7:37 PM
Laayoune Plage
↑ 7:46 AM
↓ 7:38 PM

Current Weather in Western Sahara (5 Locations)

City Condition Temp.

Information about Western Sahara

Population 273,008
Area 266,000 km²
ISO Numeric Code 732
FIPS Code WI
Top Level Domain .eh
Currency Dirham (MAD)
Phone Prefix +212
Country Code +212
Languages AR (ar), MEY (mey)
Neighbouring Countries 🇩🇿 Algeria, 🇲🇷 Mauritania, 🇲🇦 Morocco

Upcoming Public Holidays in Western Sahara

This year, Western Sahara observes 11 public holidays, with 11 scheduled for 2027. The next holiday is National Unity Day on 12 Oct. The most recently passed holiday was Prophet's Birthday (estimated). Explore the full calendar of Public Holidays in Western Sahara to plan your schedule.

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FAQ — Western Sahara

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 Western Sahara, updated live. Western Sahara uses Africa/El_Aaiun (+01) — UTC+01:00.

Western Sahara uses a single time zone for the whole country. Countries split into multiple time zones for geographic, political, or historical reasons — wider east-west spans usually mean more zones.

The capital of Western Sahara is Laayoune (El Aaiun). Click through for the current local time in Laayoune (El Aaiun), plus sunrise, sunset and weather details for the capital.

The most populous cities in Western Sahara include Laayoune (El Aaiun), Laayoune, Dakhla, Boujdour and Laayoune Plage. Each city page shows current local time, sunrise/sunset, and weather.

Western Sahara observes 11 public holidays this year. The full list — fixed and movable, religious and secular, national and regional — is on the Western Sahara public holidays page.

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

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