| 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 |
Jos, 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 Jos 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 Jos lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Jos 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 Jos lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Jos 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 Jos 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 Jos.
Jos (Nigeria) is home to roughly 900K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:13, sunset at 18:15. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 10° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Nigeria
Capital
Abuja
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+1 · Africa/Lagos
Coordinates
9.90°N, 8.89°E
Currency
NGN (₦)
Calling Code
+234
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Jos sits at about 1,200 metres on a plateau cool enough that the British used it as a hill station and grew temperate crops. Tin mining brought the railway; the Nok terracotta figures found nearby date from about 900 BC.
The clock: Jos keeps UTC+1. The Nok culture produced some of the oldest sculpture found in sub-Saharan Africa.
Jos lies at 8.9°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 6.1° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 24 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:24 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 42m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 33m. The swing between them is 1h 9m. 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 Jos the sun comes up earliest on 30 May at 06:02, while the latest sunset waits until 14 July at 18:50. 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 Jos 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 Jos, Nigeria is Africa/Lagos with a current UTC offset of UTC+1.
Jos has an estimated population of 900K and is located at coordinates 9.90°N, 8.89°E.
Jos gets 12h 42m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 33m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Jos falls at about 12:24 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 6.1° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Plateau With Its Own Climate: Jos sits at about 1,200 metres on a plateau cool enough that the British used it as a hill station and grew temperate crops. Tin mining brought the railway; the Nok terracotta figures found nearby date from about 900 BC.