| 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 |
Cotonou, Benin runs on UTC+1. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Cotonou 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 Cotonou lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Cotonou 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 Cotonou lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Cotonou 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 Cotonou 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 Cotonou.
Cotonou (Benin) is home to roughly 1.2M people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:38, sunset at 18:42. 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
Benin
Capital
Porto-Novo
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+1 · Africa/Porto-Novo
Coordinates
6.37°N, 2.43°E
Currency
XOF (CFA)
Calling Code
+229
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Ganvié, on Lake Nokoué near Cotonou, is a village of around 20,000 people living entirely in stilt houses, founded in the 17th century by Tofinu people escaping slave raiders whose religion forbade them from entering water.
The clock: Cotonou keeps UTC+1. Benin's official capital is Porto-Novo, but the government and almost everything else is here.
Cotonou lies at 2.4°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 12.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 50 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:50 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 30m 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 Cotonou the sun comes up earliest on 25 May at 06:34, while the latest sunset waits until 18 July at 19:10. 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 Cotonou 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 Cotonou, Benin is Africa/Porto-Novo with a current UTC offset of UTC+1.
Cotonou has an estimated population of 1.2M and is located at coordinates 6.37°N, 2.43°E.
Cotonou gets 12h 30m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 45m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Cotonou falls at about 12:50 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 12.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Village on Stilts: Ganvié, on Lake Nokoué near Cotonou, is a village of around 20,000 people living entirely in stilt houses, founded in the 17th century by Tofinu people escaping slave raiders whose religion forbade them from entering…