Current local time in Nigeria
Current time in Nigeria
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Africa/Lagos · UTC+1
Nigeria sits at UTC+1 on West Africa Time (WAT) and stays there all year, with no seasonal clock change. West Africa Time covers Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Angola. Lagos, the continent's largest city, has never used daylight saving. Above you can see the live local time along with today's date and the day of the week, read from the Africa/Lagos zone.
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Time zone facts
- Standard time
- West Africa Time (WAT), UTC+1
- Daylight saving
- Not observed; the offset is the same all year
- IANA timezone
- Africa/Lagos
Common questions
- What time is it in Nigeria right now?
- The clock at the top of this page shows the current time in Nigeria, updated every second, with today's date and the day of the week beneath it. Because Nigeria is always UTC+1, the reading is UTC shifted by that fixed amount.
- What is the UTC offset in Nigeria?
- UTC+1, all year: West Africa Time, abbreviated WAT. There is no summer variant to remember.
- Does Nigeria observe daylight saving time?
- No. Nigeria stays on West Africa Time (UTC+1) throughout the year, so the offset to UTC never moves.
- What is the IANA timezone for Nigeria?
- Africa/Lagos. That is the identifier to use in code (a database column, a cron schedule, an Intl.DateTimeFormat call), because it carries the full history of offset and daylight-saving changes for Nigeria rather than one fixed number.