Time in Lagos
Nigeria · Africa/Lagos · latitude 6.52°
Reading your clock…
Lagos never changes its clocks
Lagos stays on UTC+01:00 all year round. This is worth being careful about rather than relaxed about: the gap between Lagos and a city that does observe daylight saving still moves twice a year, because the other end moved. A recurring call can drift by an hour without anything changing here at all.
Time difference from Lagos
Where a range is shown, the gap genuinely changes during the year. That is not rounding or hedging — it is two governments moving their clocks on different weekends.
| City | Difference now | Across the year |
|---|---|---|
| London | the same time | −1h / 0 |
| New York | 5 hours behind | −6h / −5h |
| Los Angeles | 8 hours behind | −9h / −8h |
| Chicago | 6 hours behind | −7h / −6h |
| Toronto | 5 hours behind | −6h / −5h |
| Paris | 1 hour ahead | 0 / +1h |
| Berlin | 1 hour ahead | 0 / +1h |
| Dubai | 3 hours ahead | constant |
| Mumbai | 4 hours 30 minutes ahead | constant |
| Singapore | 7 hours ahead | constant |
| Hong Kong | 7 hours ahead | constant |
| Tokyo | 8 hours ahead | constant |
| Sydney | 9 hours ahead | +9h / +10h |
| Auckland | 11 hours ahead | +11h / +12h |
| São Paulo | 4 hours behind | constant |
| UTC | 1 hour behind | constant |
Daylight in Lagos through the year
From about 11.8 hours in December to 12.5 hours in June. This is the part a plain clock leaves out: 17:00 is a bright evening in one month and long dark in another.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 06:17 | 18:05 | 11h 48m |
| February | 06:16 | 18:13 | 11h 57m |
| March | 06:05 | 18:12 | 12h 7m |
| April | 05:51 | 18:08 | 12h 17m |
| May | 05:44 | 18:10 | 12h 26m |
| June | 05:47 | 18:17 | 12h 30m |
| July | 05:53 | 18:20 | 12h 27m |
| August | 05:55 | 18:13 | 12h 18m |
| September | 05:50 | 17:57 | 12h 7m |
| October | 05:46 | 17:44 | 11h 58m |
| November | 05:52 | 17:41 | 11h 49m |
| December | 06:06 | 17:51 | 11h 45m |
Daylight length is accurate. The clock times of sunrise and sunset assume each city sits at the centre of its time zone, which can put them up to about an hour and a quarter out for places near a zone's edge — Madrid being the standard example. Day length is unaffected.
Questions
About time in Lagos
What time zone is Lagos in?
Lagos uses the IANA time zone Africa/Lagos, a fixed UTC+01:00 with no daylight saving.
Does Lagos observe daylight saving time?
No. Lagos stays on UTC+01:00 all year. That does not mean the gap between Lagos and other cities is fixed, though: when a city that does observe daylight saving changes its clocks, the difference between you and them moves even though nothing changed here.
Why does the time difference to Lagos keep changing?
Because the two places do not change their clocks on the same weekend, and in opposite hemispheres they change in opposite directions. London is a clear example: it sits 1 hour behind, then the same time across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Lagos get?
Around 12.5 hours at the longest, in June, and about 11.8 hours at the shortest, in December. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Lagos's latitude of 6.52° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.