Indexed entity
Abuja is the abuja-NG record in Nigeria: country slug nigeria, city slug abuja, ISO NG, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Lagos.
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Live local time
Abuja, Nigeria
11:45:57 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Lagos
Quick answer
It is currently 11:45:57 AM (WAT, UTC+01:00) in Abuja, Nigeria — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
23°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
30°C
22°C
65% rain
Wed
29°C
23°C
83% rain
Thu
29°C
22°C
36% rain
In 10 days
Democracy Day
Fri, Jun 12, 2026
PublicIn 121 days
Thu, Oct 1, 2026
PublicIn 152 days
National Youth Day
Sun, Nov 1, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Nigerian Naira
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
06:09 AM
Sunset
06:46 PM
Day length
12h 37m
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 Abuja, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:45 AM UTC.
Current local time
11:45:57 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
WAT
Africa/Lagos · UTC+01:00
Next holiday
Democracy Day
Friday, June 12, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Abuja right now
Nearest airport
ABV
Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport · 26 km
Indexed airports
4
Curated airport references available for Nigeria
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Abuja, Nigeria.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 11:45 GMT+1
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Abuja 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
11:45 AM / +0h
Dubai
02:45 PM / +3h
Schedule risk
Democracy Day on Friday, June 12, 2026
Travel cue
ABV Abuja, 26 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:09 AM to 06:46 PM, with solar noon around 12:28 PM and total daylight of 12h 37m.
Mapped location
9.06°N, 7.50°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:45 AM / +0h
Good live-call window with Abuja right now.
New York
06:45 AM / -5h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:45 AM / -8h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:45 PM / +3h
Good live-call window with Abuja right now.
Singapore
06:45 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 Abuja.
ABV · Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport
Abuja
KAN · Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport
Kano
PHC · Port Harcourt International Airport
Port Harcourt
LOS · Murtala Muhammed International Airport
Lagos
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Africa/Lagos 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 Abuja right now.
Check local interruptions
Democracy Day on Friday, June 12, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: ABV Abuja, 26 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Africa/Lagos. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Abuja has no near-term DST change in view, but Democracy 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 Abuja.
Canonical route
/time/nigeria/abuja/
Catalog identity
abuja-NG · NG · Africa
Coordinate cell
9.06°N, 7.50°E · lat 9.058 · lon 7.495 · cell 906:750
Population record
2,690,000 residents · country rank 4
Zone snapshot
Africa/Lagos · GMT+1 · UTC+01:00
January / July offsets
UTC+01:00 / UTC+01:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Kano, Nigeria · 346 km
Nearest world hub
London · 4,771 km
Closest airport references
ABV Abuja 26 km · KAN Kano 351 km · PHC Port Harcourt 454 km · LOS Lagos 536 km
Zone peer roster
Lagos, Nigeria · Kano, Nigeria · Ibadan, Nigeria
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Abuja: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Abuja is the abuja-NG record in Nigeria: country slug nigeria, city slug abuja, ISO NG, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Lagos.
9.06°N, 7.50°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 9 and longitude band 7; exact decimal pair 9.05785, 7.49508.
Nigeria: official name Federal Republic of Nigeria; capital Abuja; region Africa; subregion Western Africa; country population 223,800,000; area 923,768 km²; languages English; currencies NGN Nigerian naira. This is the country layer behind the Abuja clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Nigeria: Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of 923,769 square kilometres (356,669 mi2). With a population of more than 242 million, it is the most populous country in Africa, and the world's sixth-most populous country. Nigeria borders Niger in the north, Chad in the northeast, Cameroon in the east, and Benin in the west. Nigeria is a federal republic comprising 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, where its capital, Abuja, is located. The largest city in Nigeria by population is Lagos, one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world and the largest in Africa. Source: Wikipedia.
Kano [kano-NG, NG, Africa/Lagos, 346 km]; Ibadan [ibadan-NG, NG, Africa/Lagos, 437 km]; Bamenda [bamenda-CM, CM, Africa/Douala, 452 km]; Maradi [maradi-NE, NE, Africa/Niamey, 496 km]; Bafoussam [bafoussam-CM, CM, Africa/Douala, 512 km]; Parakou [parakou-BJ, BJ, Africa/Porto-Novo, 535 km]; Lagos [lagos-NG, NG, Africa/Lagos, 537 km]; Zinder [zinder-NE, NE, Africa/Niamey, 553 km]
Abuja is part of this indexed country cluster: Lagos [lagos-NG, Africa/Lagos, pop 15,388,000]; Kano [kano-NG, Africa/Lagos, pop 4,910,000]; Ibadan [ibadan-NG, Africa/Lagos, pop 3,649,000]; Abuja [abuja-NG, Africa/Lagos, pop 2,690,000].
London 4,771 km; Dubai 5,351 km; São Paulo 6,908 km; New York 8,638 km; Singapore 10,678 km; Los Angeles 12,558 km; Tokyo 12,957 km; Sydney 15,398 km
ABV Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja [NG, 26 km]; KAN Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano [NG, 351 km]; PHC Port Harcourt International Airport in Port Harcourt [NG, 454 km]; LOS Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos [NG, 536 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include ABV Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja [NG]; KAN Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano [NG]; LOS Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos [NG]; PHC Port Harcourt International Airport in Port Harcourt [NG].
Abuja renders Jun 2, 2026 · 11:45 GMT+1; GMT+1 at UTC+01:00; January UTC+01:00; July UTC+01:00; next holiday Democracy Day on 2026-06-12.
This evidence pack keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Abuja.
Abuja is a manual-dossier city; rank #4 of 4 retained Nigeria city pages. The route is /time/nigeria/abuja/ and the city id is abuja-NG.
Abuja has 16 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.
Abuja is pinned at 9.06°N, 7.50°E; Kano (346 km); London (4,771 km).
Africa/Lagos resolves to stable UTC+01:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Nigeria.
ABV Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (26 km) · Democracy Day (Friday, June 12, 2026) · 4 country airport references · 10 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Abuja 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.
Abuja: Abuja is the capital city of Nigeria, strategically situated at the geographic midpoint of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). As the seat of the Federal Government of Nigeria, it hosts key national institutions, landmarks, and buildings spread across its over 50 districts. It replaced Lagos as the capital on 12 December 1991.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+01:00) is constant year-round.
Abuja 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 7.50°, Abuja's mean solar noon falls about 30 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.
Abuja sits at 9.06°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Abuja sits at 9.06°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 11 (12h 39m)
Shortest day
Jan 1 (11h 36m)
Year-round average
12h 8m
Annual swing
1h 3m
See the full daylight curve for Abuja at /sun/abuja/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Abuja local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Abuja |
|---|---|---|
| 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
10
Capital status
National capital of Nigeria
Abuja is the capital of Nigeria, a planned city in the centre of the country with a fast-growing population estimated at over 2.6 million in its urban core and several million more across the Federal Capital Territory. It observes West Africa Time (WAT, UTC+1) year-round with no daylight saving. Abuja replaced Lagos as the national capital in 1991, having been purpose-built from the 1980s to provide a neutral, centrally located seat of government in a religiously and ethnically diverse country. The city is laid out on a master plan and is dominated by Aso Rock, a large monolith beside which the presidential complex sits. As home to the National Assembly, the Supreme Court, and foreign embassies, Abuja is the political heart of Africa's most populous nation.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Abuja's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 11:45:57 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Abuja (UTC+01:00, WAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:09 AM to 06:46 PM
Day length 12h 37m · Solar noon 12:28 PM
Next country holiday
Democracy Day
Friday, June 12, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Abuja local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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5 days to go
Population
2.7M
Coordinates
9.06, 7.50
Timezone
Africa/Lagos
Indexed airports
4
Capital
Abuja
Languages
English
Currency
NGN (₦)
Country area
923,768 km²
Abuja, Nigeria (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Lagos (WAT, UTC+01:00); population ~2.7M.
Coordinates: 9.06°N, 7.50°E. Northern Hemisphere deep tropics, ~1005 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:09 AM and sets around 06:46 PM in Abuja — about 12h 37m of daylight. Nigeria stays on standard time here, so UTC+01:00 is stable through the year.
Kano (346 km from Abuja) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 4 curated airport pages indexed for Nigeria.
Next national holiday: Democracy Day, 2026-06-12.
Abuja is indexed as a Africa city in the NG country record, using Africa/Lagos as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/nigeria/abuja/.
Location context: 9.06°N, 7.50°E; population 2,690,000; nearest indexed city Kano is about 346 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 4,771 km away.
Country planning context: capital Abuja; subregion Western Africa; languages English; currency NGN (₦); area 923,768 km²; 4 curated airport references; next holiday Democracy Day on 2026-06-12.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+01:00) is constant year-round.
Abuja 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 7.50°, Abuja's mean solar noon falls about 30 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.
Abuja sits at 9.06°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Major metropolitan area with around 2.7 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Abuja: Lagos (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.
nigeria
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
WAT
IANA Zone
Africa/Lagos
UTC Offset
UTC+01:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
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 Abuja.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Abuja: closest hubs London (~4,771 km), Dubai (~5,351 km), São Paulo (~6,908 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~15,398 km).
Abuja sits inside Nigeria — the Western Africa subregion, capital Abuja, languages English, currency NGN (₦).
Closest indexed cities to Abuja: Kano (346 km), Ibadan (437 km), Bamenda (452 km), Maradi (496 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Abuja: Democracy Day, National Day, National Youth Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Nigeria.
Closest curated airport references from Abuja: ABV Abuja (26 km), KAN Kano (351 km), PHC Port Harcourt (454 km).
Nigeria pages should treat WAT as a regional business anchor rather than a bare abbreviation.
Nnamdi Azikiwe International AirportABV
Abuja · 26 km from Abuja
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 47m
Mallam Aminu Kano International AirportKAN
Kano · 351 km from Abuja
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 12m
Port Harcourt International AirportPHC
Port Harcourt · 454 km from Abuja
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 20m
Murtala Muhammed International AirportLOS
Lagos · 536 km from Abuja
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 26m
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 | 11:45 AM | +0h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:45 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:45 AM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:45 PM | +3h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:45 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:45 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:45 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:45 AM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
Abuja is in the Africa/Lagos timezone (WAT), with a UTC offset of +01:00.
Abuja 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 Abuja is UTC+01:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Abuja, 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 · 11:45 GMT+1. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Abuja sits at 9.06°N, 7.50°E in Nigeria, with about 2.7M residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Abuja is London, about 4,771 km away as the crow flies.
Kano is the closest indexed city, roughly 346 km from Abuja.
Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (ABV) is the closest curated airport reference, about 26 km from Abuja.
Democracy Day is the next upcoming holiday in Nigeria, on Friday, June 12, 2026.
Abuja uses Nigerian naira (NGN, symbol ₦) as the local currency of Nigeria.
The longest day of 2026 in Abuja falls on Jun 11 with about 12h 39m of daylight. The shortest is Jan 1 with 11h 36m; the year-round average is 12h 8m.
In Abuja 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.