Lagos time zone and office-hour overlap
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- UTC+1West Africa Time, January
- UTC+1West Africa Time, July
- Africa/LagosIANA time zone name
- 13other listed cities on the same clock all year
Clock changes
Lagos does not change its clocks: it stays on UTC+1 (West Africa Time) all year.
Sun and clock
At 3.4° east, the sun is highest over Lagos at about 12:46 pm on the winter clock — 46 minutes after noon, because the clock runs ahead of the sun.
In mid-January the sun rises at about 7:02 am and sets at about 6:49 pm — 11 hours 45 minutes of daylight.
In mid-July the sun rises at about 6:38 am and sets at about 7:06 pm — 12 hours 30 minutes of daylight.
On a January weekday, 48 of the listed cities share the whole 9-to-5 day with Lagos, 199 share at least two hours and 38 share no office time at all; on a July weekday the counts are 23, 207 and 34. The furthest away on the clock in January is Auckland (New Zealand), 12 hours ahead.
Of the 268 cities in this planner, 92 are behind Lagos in January, 48 show the same time and 127 are ahead of it.
Cities on the same clock
All year, Lagos shows the same time as Kinshasa (DR Congo), Luanda (Angola), Abuja, Algiers (Algeria), Brazzaville (Congo), N'Djamena (Chad), Douala (Cameroon), Niamey (Niger), Yaoundé (Cameroon), Libreville (Gabon) and 3 more.
Only in January (northern winter) it matches Berlin (Germany), Madrid (Spain), Rome (Italy), Paris (France), Hamburg (Germany), Budapest (Hungary), Warsaw (Poland), Vienna (Austria) and 25 more — they change their clocks while Lagos does not.
Only in July it matches London (United Kingdom), Birmingham (United Kingdom), Dublin (Ireland), Glasgow (United Kingdom), Manchester (United Kingdom), Lisbon (Portugal), Edinburgh (United Kingdom) and Belfast (United Kingdom).
Office hours shared with 12 business cities
Counting a 9-to-5 day, Monday to Friday, in both cities: Lagos shares two hours or more with New York, Chicago, London, Paris, Dubai, Mumbai and São Paulo, and no office time at all with Los Angeles, Tokyo, Sydney and Auckland.
| City | Gap, Jan / Jul | Shared, Jan / Jul | At 9 am |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | −6 / −5 h | 2 / 3 h | 3:00 am |
| Los Angeles | −9 / −8 h | 0 / 0 h | 12:00 am |
| Chicago | −7 / −6 h | 1 / 2 h | 2:00 am |
| London | −1 / +0 h | 7 / 8 h | 8:00 am |
| Paris | +0 / +1 h | 8 / 7 h | 9:00 am |
| Dubai | +3 / +3 h | 5 / 5 h | 12:00 pm |
| Mumbai | +4½ / +4½ h | 3½ / 3½ h | 1:30 pm |
| Singapore | +7 / +7 h | 1 / 1 h | 4:00 pm |
| Tokyo | +8 / +8 h | 0 / 0 h | 5:00 pm |
| Sydney | +10 / +9 h | 0 / 0 h | 7:00 pm |
| Auckland | +12 / +11 h | 0 / 0 h | 9:00 pm |
| São Paulo | −4 / −4 h | 4 / 4 h | 5:00 am |
Time differences with Lagos
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