| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | ±0h | Becomes −1h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | +1h | Becomes ±0h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +3h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +8h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +9h | Becomes +10h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −5h | Becomes −6h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −8h | Becomes −9h on 1 Nov |
Abuja, Nigeria runs on UTC+1. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Abuja and New York is 5 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 14:00–18:00 in Abuja lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Abuja and London currently share the same clock. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 9 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–18:00 in Abuja lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Abuja and Tokyo is 8 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hour a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–10:00 in Abuja lines up with 17:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Lagos, Kinshasa, Algiers. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Abuja.
Abuja (Nigeria) is home to roughly 3.8M people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:18, sunset at 18:21. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 9° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Nigeria
Capital
Abuja 👑
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+1 · Africa/Lagos
Coordinates
9.08°N, 7.40°E
Currency
NGN (₦)
Calling Code
+234
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Nigeria moved its capital from Lagos to Abuja in 1991, to a purpose-built city near the country's geographic centre, chosen deliberately as neutral ground between the main ethnic and religious regions.
The clock: Abuja keeps UTC+1. Aso Rock, the 400-metre monolith it was built around, gives the presidency its metonym.
Abuja lies at 7.4°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 7.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 30 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:30 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+1 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 12h 39m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 36m. The swing between them is 1h 4m. Within a few degrees of the equator the length of the day barely moves all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Abuja the sun comes up earliest on 29 May at 06:09, while the latest sunset waits until 15 July at 18:54. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Abuja that civil twilight runs about 21 minutes at the equinox.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Abuja, Nigeria is Africa/Lagos with a current UTC offset of UTC+1.
Abuja has an estimated population of 3.8M and is located at coordinates 9.08°N, 7.40°E. It is the capital city of Nigeria.
Abuja gets 12h 39m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 36m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Abuja falls at about 12:30 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 7.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Capital Built in the Middle: Nigeria moved its capital from Lagos to Abuja in 1991, to a purpose-built city near the country's geographic centre, chosen deliberately as neutral ground between the main ethnic and religious regions.