Chad · WAT
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
N'Djamena, Chad runs on UTC+1. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. There is a 5-hour difference between N'Djamena and New York. 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. There is a 8-hour difference between N'Djamena and Tokyo. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hours 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 Lisbon, Lagos, Casablanca. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from N'Djamena.
Practical Info
N'Djamena (Chad) is home to roughly 1.5M people. Today brings about 12.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:42, sunset at 18:30. 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.
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Chad
Capital
N'Djamena 👑
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
WAT · 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 90%. 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.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
7h overlap