Burkina Faso operates on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), which is Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+0). The country does not observe daylight saving time, so the offset remains constant throughout the year.
All of Burkina Faso follows the same timezone. Major cities including Ouagadougou, Bobo-Dioulasso, and Koudougou all observe GMT. Ouagadougou, commonly called "Ouaga," is the capital and largest city, known for hosting FESPACO, Africa's largest film festival.
Burkina Faso means "Land of Honest People" in the local Mossi and Dioula languages. The country hosts FESPACO, the Pan-African Film Festival, which is the largest film festival on the African continent, attracting filmmakers and cinema enthusiasts from around the world every two years.