| 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 |
N'Djamena, Chad runs on UTC+1. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between N'Djamena 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 N'Djamena lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. N'Djamena 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 N'Djamena lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between N'Djamena 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 N'Djamena 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 N'Djamena.
N'Djamena (Chad) is home to roughly 1.5M people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:48, sunset at 17:50. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 12° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Chad
Capital
N'Djamena 👑
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+1 · Africa/Ndjamena
Coordinates
12.13°N, 15.05°E
Currency
XAF (FCFA)
Calling Code
+235
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
French, Arabic
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Lake Chad covered roughly 25,000 square kilometres in the 1960s and fell to around 1,350 by the mid-1980s — a loss of about 95%. It has partially recovered since, but nothing like its former extent.
The clock: N'Djamena keeps UTC+1 and sits on the border with Cameroon, the two halves of a divided urban area on the same hour.
N'Djamena lies at 15.0°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The two very nearly coincide: solar noon — the moment the sun is highest — falls at about 12:00, which is as close to true solar time as a zone this wide can get. The zone holds UTC+1 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 12h 50m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 25m. The swing between them is 1h 26m. Inside the tropics the day length stays within a narrow band all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In N'Djamena the sun comes up earliest on 1 June at 05:34, while the latest sunset waits until 12 July at 18:29. 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 N'Djamena 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 N'Djamena, Chad is Africa/Ndjamena with a current UTC offset of UTC+1.
N'Djamena has an estimated population of 1.5M and is located at coordinates 12.13°N, 15.05°E. It is the capital city of Chad.
N'Djamena gets 12h 50m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 25m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in N'Djamena falls at about 12:00 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 0.0° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Lake That Shrank by Ninety-Five Percent: Lake Chad covered roughly 25,000 square kilometres in the 1960s and fell to around 1,350 by the mid-1980s — a loss of about 95%. It has partially recovered since, but nothing like its former extent.