Indexed entity
Lagos is the lagos-NG record in Nigeria: country slug nigeria, city slug lagos, ISO NG, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Lagos.
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Live local time
Lagos, Nigeria
11:02:29 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Africa/Lagos
Quick answer
It is currently 11:02:29 AM (WAT, UTC+01:00) in Lagos, Nigeria — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
26°C
Rain showers
3-day forecast
Tue
29°C
26°C
87% rain
Wed
29°C
25°C
79% rain
Thu
29°C
25°C
76% 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
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Today
Sunrise
06:30 AM
Sunset
06:58 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 Lagos, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:02 AM UTC.
Current local time
11:02:29 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 Lagos right now
Nearest airport
LOS
Murtala Muhammed International Airport · 16 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 Lagos, Nigeria.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 11:02 GMT+1
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Lagos 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
11:02 AM / +0h
Dubai
02:02 PM / +3h
Schedule risk
Democracy Day on Friday, June 12, 2026
Travel cue
LOS Lagos, 16 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:30 AM to 06:58 PM, with solar noon around 12:44 PM and total daylight of 12h 28m.
Mapped location
6.45°N, 3.39°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:02 AM / +0h
Good live-call window with Lagos right now.
New York
06:02 AM / -5h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:02 AM / -8h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:02 PM / +3h
Good live-call window with Lagos right now.
Singapore
06:02 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 Lagos.
LOS · Murtala Muhammed International Airport
Lagos
PHC · Port Harcourt International Airport
Port Harcourt
ABV · Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport
Abuja
KAN · Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport
Kano
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 Lagos right now.
Check local interruptions
Democracy Day on Friday, June 12, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: LOS Lagos, 16 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
Lagos 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 Lagos.
Canonical route
/time/nigeria/lagos/
Catalog identity
lagos-NG · NG · Africa
Coordinate cell
6.45°N, 3.39°E · lat 6.454 · lon 3.395 · cell 645:339
Population record
15,388,000 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Africa/Lagos · GMT+1 · UTC+01:00
January / July offsets
UTC+01:00 / UTC+01:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Porto-Novo, Benin · 88 km
Nearest world hub
London · 5,020 km
Closest airport references
LOS Lagos 16 km · PHC Port Harcourt 425 km · ABV Abuja 512 km · KAN Kano 839 km
Zone peer roster
Kano, Nigeria · Ibadan, Nigeria · Abuja, Nigeria
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Lagos: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Lagos is the lagos-NG record in Nigeria: country slug nigeria, city slug lagos, ISO NG, continent Africa, canonical IANA zone Africa/Lagos.
6.45°N, 3.39°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 6 and longitude band 3; exact decimal pair 6.45407, 3.39467.
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 Lagos 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.
Porto-Novo [porto-novo-BJ, BJ, Africa/Porto-Novo, 88 km]; Cotonou [cotonou-BJ, BJ, Africa/Porto-Novo, 108 km]; Abomey-Calavi [abomey-calavi-BJ, BJ, Africa/Porto-Novo, 115 km]; Ibadan [ibadan-NG, NG, Africa/Lagos, 117 km]; Lomé [lome-TG, TG, Africa/Lome, 243 km]; Atakpamé [atakpame-TG, TG, Africa/Lome, 277 km]; Parakou [parakou-BJ, BJ, Africa/Porto-Novo, 331 km]; Sokodé [sokode-TG, TG, Africa/Lome, 376 km]
Lagos 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 5,020 km; Dubai 5,885 km; São Paulo 6,371 km; New York 8,479 km; Singapore 11,142 km; Los Angeles 12,415 km; Tokyo 13,473 km; Sydney 15,517 km
LOS Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos [NG, 16 km]; PHC Port Harcourt International Airport in Port Harcourt [NG, 425 km]; ABV Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja [NG, 512 km]; KAN Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano [NG, 839 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].
Lagos renders Jun 2, 2026 · 11:02 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 Lagos.
Lagos is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained Nigeria city pages. The route is /time/nigeria/lagos/ and the city id is lagos-NG.
Lagos 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.
Lagos is pinned at 6.45°N, 3.39°E; Porto-Novo (88 km); London (5,020 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.
LOS Murtala Muhammed International Airport (16 km) · Democracy Day (Friday, June 12, 2026) · 4 country airport references · 10 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Lagos 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.
Lagos: Lagos, or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan port city in southwestern Nigeria. As of November 2025, the size of the city's population has been estimated to be between 17 and 21 million residents, making Lagos the largest city in Nigeria, the most populous urban area on the African continent, and one of the fastest-growing megacities in the world. Lagos was the national capital of Nigeria until the government's December 1991 decision to relocate its capital to Abuja, in the centre of the country. Apart from serving as a major African financial center, Lagos has also played a significant role in the national economy, serving as the economic hub of Lagos State and the entire country of Nigeria. The city has a significant influence on commerce, entertainment, technology, education, politics, tourism, art, and fashion in Africa. Lagos is also among the top ten of the world's fastest-growing cities and urban areas. A megacity, it has the second-highest GDP in Africa, and houses one of the largest and busiest seaports on the continent. Due to the large urban population and port traffic volumes, Lagos is classified as a Medium-Port Megacity.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+01:00) is constant year-round.
Lagos 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 3.39°, Lagos's mean solar noon falls about 46 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.
Lagos sits at 6.45°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Lagos sits at 6.45°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 12 (12h 30m)
Shortest day
Jan 1 (11h 45m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 45m
See the full daylight curve for Lagos at /sun/lagos/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Lagos local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Lagos |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Lagos is the largest city in Nigeria and the most populous city in sub-Saharan Africa, with an official metropolitan population of about 16 million (some estimates place it above 20 million). West Africa Time (WAT, UTC+1) is fixed year-round with no daylight saving. Lagos was the national capital from independence in 1960 until the seat of government was moved to Abuja in 1991, but the city remains the country's economic and financial centre, housing the Nigerian Exchange (NGX), the headquarters of most major Nigerian banks, and the country's busiest port at Apapa. The city straddles the Lagos Lagoon and a string of Atlantic islands (Lagos, Victoria, Ikoyi), and the Lekki Free Trade Zone, including the Dangote Refinery (650,000 barrels per day, one of the world's largest single-train refineries), is anchoring the next wave of industrial growth.
Reference fields include Lagos's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 11:02:29 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Lagos (UTC+01:00, WAT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:30 AM to 06:58 PM
Day length 12h 28m · Solar noon 12:44 PM
Next country holiday
Democracy Day
Friday, June 12, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Lagos local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
15.4M
Coordinates
6.45, 3.39
Timezone
Africa/Lagos
Indexed airports
4
Capital
Abuja
Languages
English
Currency
NGN (₦)
Country area
923,768 km²
Lagos, Nigeria (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Africa/Lagos (WAT, UTC+01:00); population ~15.4M.
Coordinates: 6.45°N, 3.39°E. Northern Hemisphere deep tropics, ~716 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:30 AM and sets around 06:58 PM in Lagos — about 12h 28m of daylight. Nigeria stays on standard time here, so UTC+01:00 is stable through the year.
Porto-Novo (88 km from Lagos) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 4 curated airport pages indexed for Nigeria.
Next national holiday: Democracy Day, 2026-06-12.
Lagos 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/lagos/.
Location context: 6.45°N, 3.39°E; population 15,388,000; nearest indexed city Porto-Novo is about 88 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 5,020 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.
Lagos 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 3.39°, Lagos's mean solar noon falls about 46 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.
Lagos sits at 6.45°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Megacity with roughly 15.4 million urban residents — among the largest metropolitan areas in the world.
Related clock anchors for Lagos: Kano (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 Lagos.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Lagos: closest hubs London (~5,020 km), Dubai (~5,885 km), São Paulo (~6,371 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~15,517 km).
Lagos sits inside Nigeria — the Western Africa subregion, capital Abuja, languages English, currency NGN (₦).
Closest indexed cities to Lagos: Porto-Novo (88 km), Cotonou (108 km), Abomey-Calavi (115 km), Ibadan (117 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Lagos: Democracy Day, National Day, National Youth Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Nigeria.
Closest curated airport references from Lagos: LOS Lagos (16 km), PHC Port Harcourt (425 km), ABV Abuja (512 km).
Nigeria pages should treat WAT as a regional business anchor rather than a bare abbreviation.
Murtala Muhammed International AirportLOS
Lagos · 16 km from Lagos
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Port Harcourt International AirportPHC
Port Harcourt · 425 km from Lagos
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 18m
Nnamdi Azikiwe International AirportABV
Abuja · 512 km from Lagos
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 24m
Mallam Aminu Kano International AirportKAN
Kano · 839 km from Lagos
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 50m
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 | 11:02 AM | +0h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:02 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:02 AM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:02 PM | +3h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:02 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:02 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:02 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:02 AM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
Lagos is in the Africa/Lagos timezone (WAT), with a UTC offset of +01:00.
Lagos 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 Lagos is UTC+01:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Lagos, 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 · 11:02 GMT+1. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Lagos sits at 6.45°N, 3.39°E in Nigeria, with about 15.4M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Lagos is London, about 5,020 km away as the crow flies.
Porto-Novo is the closest indexed city, roughly 88 km from Lagos.
Murtala Muhammed International Airport (LOS) is the closest curated airport reference, about 16 km from Lagos.
Democracy Day is the next upcoming holiday in Nigeria, on Friday, June 12, 2026.
Lagos uses Nigerian naira (NGN, symbol ₦) as the local currency of Nigeria.
The longest day of 2026 in Lagos falls on Jun 12 with about 12h 30m of daylight. The shortest is Jan 1 with 11h 45m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
In Lagos 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.