Current Time in Lagos, Nigeria
The time in Lagos right now, with its time zone, daylight saving dates and the difference from where you are.
Lagos keeps West Africa Time: WAT, UTC+1, all year.
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Lagos’s time zone
Lagos keeps West Africa Time (WAT), UTC+1, all year round: its clocks do not change for summer. Phones and computers set Lagos’s clocks from the Africa/Lagos zone of the IANA tz database, and so does this page.
Lagos keeps West Africa Time, UTC+1, and Nigeria has not changed its clocks since 1 September 1919. Before then the colony used Greenwich time and local mean time, and from 1914 a half-hour offset of UTC+0:30, before settling on the whole hour it has kept for more than a century.
Nigeria has no daylight saving, and neither do its WAT neighbours: Cameroon, Benin, Niger, Chad, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, western Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola all keep the same clock. Ghana, to the west, is an hour behind on UTC+0. Close to the equator, Lagos has days of roughly the same length all year, which is one reason seasonal clock changes were never needed.
WAT = UTC +1
- Lagos used UTC+0:30 from 1914 and has kept West Africa Time, UTC+1, since 1 September 1919. Source: IANA tz database, file “africa”.
Lagos time compared with other cities
How far ahead or behind each place is, on Wednesday 13 January 2027 and Wednesday 14 July 2027, and the time there when it is 9:00 am in Lagos in January.
| Place | In January | In July | At 9:00 am in Lagos |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 1 h behind | same time | 8:00 am |
| Johannesburg | 1 h ahead | 1 h ahead | 10:00 am |
| Cairo | 1 h ahead | 2 h ahead | 10:00 am |
| Paris | same time | 1 h ahead | 9:00 am |
| Dubai | 3 h ahead | 3 h ahead | 12:00 pm |
| New York | 6 h behind | 5 h behind | 3:00 am |
| India | 4 h 30 min ahead | 4 h 30 min ahead | 1:30 pm |
| China | 7 h ahead | 7 h ahead | 4:00 pm |
| UTC | 1 h behind | 1 h behind | 8:00 am |
Frequently Asked Questions
What time zone is Lagos in?
Lagos is on West Africa Time (WAT), UTC+1, all year. Its tz database zone is Africa/Lagos.
Is Nigeria on the same time as the UK?
In winter Nigeria is one hour ahead of the UK. From late March to late October the UK moves to BST (UTC+1), and then Lagos and London show the same time.
Which countries share West Africa Time with Nigeria?
Cameroon, Benin, Niger, Chad, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Angola and the western Democratic Republic of the Congo all keep UTC+1 with no clock changes.
Is Abuja on the same time as Lagos?
Yes. Nigeria has one time zone, so Abuja, Lagos, Kano and Port Harcourt all keep West Africa Time, UTC+1, all year.