| 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 |
Parakou, 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 Parakou 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 Parakou lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Parakou 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 Parakou lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Parakou 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 Parakou 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 Parakou.
Parakou (Benin) is home to roughly 260K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:38, sunset at 18:41. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 9° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Benin
Capital
Porto-Novo
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+1 · Africa/Porto-Novo
Coordinates
9.34°N, 2.63°E
Currency
XOF (CFA)
Calling Code
+229
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Parakou is the northern terminus of Benin's railway from Cotonou, built between 1900 and 1936 and never extended to Niger as planned — which left the city as the transfer point where rail freight becomes road freight for the whole Sahel.
The clock: Parakou keeps UTC+1. The Gaani festival each year marks the Bariba new year with horsemen in full regalia.
Parakou lies at 2.6°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 12.4° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 49 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:49 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 40m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 35m. The swing between them is 1h 5m. 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 Parakou the sun comes up earliest on 29 May at 06:28, while the latest sunset waits until 15 July at 19:14. 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 Parakou 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 Parakou, Benin is Africa/Porto-Novo with a current UTC offset of UTC+1.
Parakou has an estimated population of 260K and is located at coordinates 9.34°N, 2.63°E.
Parakou gets 12h 40m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 35m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Parakou falls at about 12:49 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 12.4° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The End of the Line: Parakou is the northern terminus of Benin's railway from Cotonou, built between 1900 and 1936 and never extended to Niger as planned — which left the city as the transfer point where rail freight becomes road freight…