Indexed entity
Cotonou is the cotonou-BJ record in Benin: country slug benin, city slug cotonou, ISO BJ, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Porto-Novo.
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Live local time
Cotonou, Benin
11:41:39 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Porto-Novo
Quick answer
It is currently 11:41:39 AM (WAT, UTC+01:00) in Cotonou, Benin — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
26°C
Drizzle
3-day forecast
Tue
30°C
26°C
78% rain
Wed
28°C
25°C
76% rain
Thu
28°C
26°C
66% rain
In 60 days
Sat, Aug 1, 2026
PublicIn 74 days
Assumption Day
Sat, Aug 15, 2026
PublicIn 146 days
Armed Forces Day
Mon, Oct 26, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
West African CFA Franc
Live ECB rate not available for this currency.
Conversion rates aren’t published for this currency by the ECB. The local code is shown for reference.
Today
Sunrise
06:34 AM
Sunset
07:02 PM
Day length
12h 28m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Cotonou, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:41 AM UTC.
Current local time
11:41:39 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
WAT
Africa/Porto-Novo · UTC+01:00
Next holiday
Independence Day
Saturday, August 1, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Cotonou right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Cotonou
Indexed airports
0
Curated airport references available for Benin
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Cotonou, Benin.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 11:41 GMT+1
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Cotonou is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+01:00
Zone label
GMT+1
London
11:41 AM / +0h
Dubai
02:41 PM / +3h
Schedule risk
Independence Day on Saturday, August 1, 2026
Travel cue
Abomey-Calavi, 12 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:34 AM to 07:02 PM, with solar noon around 12:48 PM and total daylight of 12h 28m.
Mapped location
6.37°N, 2.42°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:41 AM / +0h
Good live-call window with Cotonou right now.
New York
06:41 AM / -5h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:41 AM / -8h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:41 PM / +3h
Good live-call window with Cotonou right now.
Singapore
06:41 PM / +7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Cotonou.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Porto-Novo for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+01:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+01:00.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Cotonou right now.
Check local interruptions
Independence Day on Saturday, August 1, 2026. Nearest mapped context: Abomey-Calavi, 12 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Porto-Novo. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Cotonou has no near-term DST change in view, but Independence Day can still affect office coverage and local response times.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Cotonou.
Canonical route
/time/benin/cotonou/
Catalog identity
cotonou-BJ · BJ · Africa
Coordinate cell
6.37°N, 2.42°E · lat 6.365 · lon 2.418 · cell 637:242
Population record
679,012 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Africa/Porto-Novo · GMT+1 · UTC+01:00
January / July offsets
UTC+01:00 / UTC+01:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Abomey-Calavi, Benin · 12 km
Nearest world hub
London · 5,025 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Cotonou
Zone peer roster
Abomey-Calavi, Benin · Porto-Novo, Benin · Parakou, Benin
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Cotonou: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Cotonou is the cotonou-BJ record in Benin: country slug benin, city slug cotonou, ISO BJ, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Porto-Novo.
6.37°N, 2.42°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 6 and longitude band 2; exact decimal pair 6.36536, 2.41833.
Benin: official name Republic of Benin; capital Porto-Novo; region Africa; subregion Western Africa; country population 13,224,860; area 112,622 km²; languages French; currencies XOF West African CFA franc. This is the country layer behind the Cotonou clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Benin: Benin, officially the Republic of Benin, formerly known as Dahomey, is a country in West Africa. Benin is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the northwest, and Niger to the northeast. The majority of its population lives on the southern coastline of the Bight of Benin, part of the Gulf of Guinea in the northernmost tropical portion of the Atlantic Ocean. The capital is Porto-Novo, and the seat of government is in Cotonou, the most populous city and economic capital. Benin covers an area of 112,622 km2 (43,484 sq mi), and its population in 2021 was estimated to be approximately 13 million. It is a tropical country with an economy heavily dependent on agriculture and the exports of palm oil and cotton. Source: Wikipedia.
Abomey-Calavi [abomey-calavi-BJ, BJ, Africa/Porto-Novo, 12 km]; Porto-Novo [porto-novo-BJ, BJ, Africa/Porto-Novo, 25 km]; Lagos [lagos-NG, NG, Africa/Lagos, 108 km]; Lomé [lome-TG, TG, Africa/Lome, 135 km]; Atakpamé [atakpame-TG, TG, Africa/Lome, 192 km]; Ibadan [ibadan-NG, NG, Africa/Lagos, 199 km]; Accra [accra-GH, GH, Africa/Accra, 303 km]; Sokodé [sokode-TG, TG, Africa/Lome, 324 km]
Cotonou is part of this indexed country cluster: Cotonou [cotonou-BJ, Africa/Porto-Novo, pop 679,012]; Abomey-Calavi [abomey-calavi-BJ, Africa/Porto-Novo, pop 385,755]; Porto-Novo [porto-novo-BJ, Africa/Porto-Novo, pop 264,320]; Parakou [parakou-BJ, Africa/Porto-Novo, pop 255,478].
London 5,025 km; Dubai 5,985 km; São Paulo 6,276 km; New York 8,403 km; Singapore 11,250 km; Los Angeles 12,339 km; Tokyo 13,551 km; Sydney 15,582 km
Cotonou has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Benin.
Cotonou renders Jun 2, 2026 · 11:41 GMT+1; GMT+1 at UTC+01:00; January UTC+01:00; July UTC+01:00; next holiday Independence Day on 2026-08-01.
This evidence pack is what keeps smaller city pages from reading like timezone templates: concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Cotonou.
Cotonou is a context-and-reference city; rank #1 of 4 retained Benin city pages. The route is /time/benin/cotonou/ and the city id is cotonou-BJ.
Cotonou has 13 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Cotonou is pinned at 6.37°N, 2.42°E; Abomey-Calavi (12 km); London (5,025 km).
Africa/Porto-Novo resolves to stable UTC+01:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Benin.
Cotonou has no direct nearby-airport handoff · Independence Day (Saturday, August 1, 2026) · 0 country airport references · 14 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Cotonou uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Cotonou: Cotonou is the largest city and seat of government of Benin. Its official population count was 679,012 in 2012; however, over two million people live in the larger urban area. The urban area continues to expand, notably toward the west. The city lies in the southeast of the country, between the Atlantic Ocean and Lake Nokoué.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+01:00) is constant year-round.
Cotonou is listed in the dataset snapshot as 1 hour ahead of UTC (offset +01:00). On the same clock as London, 8 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 2.42°, Cotonou's mean solar noon falls about 50 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Cotonou sits at 6.37°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Cotonou sits at 6.37°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Jun 5 (12h 29m)
Shortest day
Dec 12 (11h 45m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 44m
See the full daylight curve for Cotonou at /sun/cotonou/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Cotonou local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Cotonou |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 14:00 - 22:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 06:00 - 14:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 04:30 - 12:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 02:00 - 10:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 02:00 - 10:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 01:00 - 09:00 |
Public holidays in 2026
14
Reference fields include Cotonou's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 11:41:39 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Cotonou (UTC+01:00, WAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:34 AM to 07:02 PM
Day length 12h 28m · Solar noon 12:48 PM
Next country holiday
Independence Day
Saturday, August 1, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Cotonou local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
keynoteSunday, December 6, 2026
187 days to go
Xbox Games Showcase 2026
keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
Code with Claude Tokyo 2026
keynoteWednesday, June 10, 2026
8 days to go
Population
679K
Coordinates
6.37, 2.42
Timezone
Africa/Porto-Novo
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Porto-Novo
Languages
French
Currency
XOF (Fr)
Country area
112,622 km²
Cotonou, Benin (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Porto-Novo (WAT, UTC+01:00); population ~679K.
Coordinates: 6.37°N, 2.42°E. Northern Hemisphere deep tropics, ~707 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:34 AM and sets around 07:02 PM in Cotonou — about 12h 28m of daylight. Benin stays on standard time here, so UTC+01:00 is stable through the year.
Abomey-Calavi (12 km from Cotonou) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Benin.
Next national holiday: Independence Day, 2026-08-01.
Cotonou is indexed as a Africa city in the BJ country record, using Africa/Porto-Novo as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/benin/cotonou/.
Location context: 6.37°N, 2.42°E; population 679,012; nearest indexed city Abomey-Calavi is about 12 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 5,025 km away.
Country planning context: capital Porto-Novo; subregion Western Africa; languages French; currency XOF (Fr); area 112,622 km²; 0 curated airport references; next holiday Independence Day on 2026-08-01.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+01:00) is constant year-round.
Cotonou is listed in the dataset snapshot as 1 hour ahead of UTC (offset +01:00). On the same clock as London, 8 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 2.42°, Cotonou's mean solar noon falls about 50 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Cotonou sits at 6.37°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Sizeable city with about 679 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Cotonou: Abomey-Calavi (same time), Sydney (+9h), Tokyo (+8h), Singapore (+7h), Mumbai (+4.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
benin
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
WAT
IANA Zone
Africa/Porto-Novo
UTC Offset
UTC+01:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+01:00
Algeria, Tunisia, Isle of Man, Ireland, United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, Central African Republic
Other cities in this timezone
London
+0h
New York
-5h
Los Angeles
-8h
Dubai
+3h
Singapore
+7h
Tokyo
+8h
Sydney
+9h
São Paulo
-4h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Cotonou.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Cotonou: closest hubs London (~5,025 km), Dubai (~5,985 km), São Paulo (~6,276 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~15,582 km).
Cotonou sits inside Benin — the Western Africa subregion, capital Porto-Novo, languages French, currency XOF (Fr).
Closest indexed cities to Cotonou: Abomey-Calavi (12 km), Porto-Novo (25 km), Lagos (108 km), Lomé (135 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Cotonou: Independence Day, Assumption Day, Armed Forces Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Benin.
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Cotonou, so this page falls back to timezone and regional planning context instead of showing a broken travel panel.
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
2 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:41 AM | +0h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:41 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:41 AM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:41 PM | +3h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:41 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:41 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:41 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:41 AM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
Cotonou is in the Africa/Porto-Novo timezone (WAT), with a UTC offset of +01:00.
Cotonou does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+01:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Cotonou is UTC+01:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Cotonou, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 11:41 GMT+1. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Cotonou sits at 6.37°N, 2.42°E in Benin, with about 679K residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Cotonou is London, about 5,025 km away as the crow flies.
Abomey-Calavi is the closest indexed city, roughly 12 km from Cotonou.
Independence Day is the next upcoming holiday in Benin, on Saturday, August 1, 2026.
Cotonou uses West African CFA franc (XOF, symbol Fr) as the local currency of Benin.
The longest day of 2026 in Cotonou falls on Jun 5 with about 12h 29m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 12 with 11h 45m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
In Cotonou local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 14:00-22:00; London 09:00-17:00; Frankfurt 08:00-16:00; Dubai 06:00-14:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.