West Africa Time

At a glance

IANA

Africa/Lagos

Standard offset

UTC+1 (GMT+1)

Observes DST?

No

Countries

NG

Main cities

Lagos, Kano, Ibadan, Abuja

Also known as

Africa/Bangui, Africa/Brazzaville, Africa/Douala, Africa/Kinshasa, Africa/Libreville, Africa/Luanda, Africa/Malabo, Africa/Niamey, Africa/Porto-Novo

Developer snippets

// JavaScript
new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Africa/Lagos' }).format(new Date());

// Python
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
from datetime import datetime
datetime.now(ZoneInfo('Africa/Lagos'));

// Java
java.time.ZonedDateTime.now(java.time.ZoneId.of('Africa/Lagos'));