| 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 |
Benin City, 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 Benin City 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 Benin City lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Benin City 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 Benin City lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Benin City 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 Benin City 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 Benin City.
Benin City (Nigeria) is home to roughly 1.8M people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:25, sunset at 18:29. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 6° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Nigeria
Capital
Abuja
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+1 · Africa/Lagos
Coordinates
6.34°N, 5.62°E
Currency
NGN (₦)
Calling Code
+234
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Benin walls and moats, built between about 800 and 1400, were estimated by some archaeologists to total around 16,000 kilometres of earthworks across the kingdom — possibly the largest earthwork built before the machine age. The British destroyed the city in 1897 and looted the Benin Bronzes.
The clock: Benin City keeps UTC+1. Museums in Europe and North America have been returning the bronzes since 2021.
Benin City lies at 5.6°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 9.4° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 38 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:38 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 29m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 45m. The swing between them is 44 minutes. 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 Benin City the sun comes up earliest on 25 May at 06:21, while the latest sunset waits until 18 July at 18:57. 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 Benin City 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 Benin City, Nigeria is Africa/Lagos with a current UTC offset of UTC+1.
Benin City has an estimated population of 1.8M and is located at coordinates 6.34°N, 5.62°E.
Benin City gets 12h 29m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 45m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Benin City falls at about 12:38 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 9.4° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Kingdom With Over Ten Thousand Kilometres of Earthen Walls: The Benin walls and moats, built between about 800 and 1400, were estimated by some archaeologists to total around 16,000 kilometres of earthworks across the kingdom — possibly the largest earthwork built before the…