What time is it in Nigeria right now? 🇳🇬
It is 8:09 pm in Abuja right now, Saturday, September 26, 2026. Nigeria runs on WAT at UTC+1. Every reading on this page is computed from the IANA time zone database at the moment you loaded it, and the clocks above and below tick on from there.
Time in Nigeria now
Nigeria keeps a single time zone, Africa/Lagos, so there is one answer to the question and it is the same in every town: 8:09 pm. The offset is UTC+1, and it never moves.
The offset from UTC in Abuja is UTC+1, which is 1 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Nine in the morning in Abuja is 8:00 am UTC.
Nigeria time zone in full
Each row is a zone identifier from the IANA database, its reading at this instant, its offset from UTC and whether it is currently on standard or summer time. All of them agree today, which is the usual case for Nigeria.
| Time zone | Time now | UTC offset | Abbreviation | Daylight saving |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Africa/Lagos | 8:09 pm | UTC+1 | WAT | never moves |
Does Nigeria have daylight saving time?
No part of Nigeria moves its clocks. The offset stays at UTC+1 through the whole year, which means a difference worked out today against Nigeria is still right in six months. Most of the world now works this way; the daylight saving habit is concentrated in Europe, North America and a short list of others.
A fixed offset makes Nigeria an easy place to schedule against, with one caveat: the country at the other end of the call may still be moving its clocks, so the gap can change even though nothing changed here. The windows further down this page are worked out at the current instant for exactly that reason.
Where Nigeria is on the map
The marker is on Abuja, the point every sun reading and every call window on this page is worked out from.
An interactive map of Abuja. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Abuja on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Abuja and major cities
Worked out at this instant rather than from a stored table, so daylight saving on either side is already in it.
| City | Time there now | Difference from Abuja |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, CA | 12:09 pm | 8 hours behind Abuja |
| Chicago, IL | 2:09 pm | 6 hours behind Abuja |
| New York, NY | 3:09 pm | 5 hours behind Abuja |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 4:09 pm | 4 hours behind Abuja |
| London, United Kingdom | 8:09 pm | the same time |
| Paris, France | 9:09 pm | 1 hour ahead of Abuja |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 9:09 pm | 1 hour ahead of Abuja |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 11:09 pm | 3 hours ahead of Abuja |
| Delhi, India | 12:39 am | 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of Abuja |
| Singapore, Singapore | 3:09 am | 7 hours ahead of Abuja |
| Tokyo, Japan | 4:09 am | 8 hours ahead of Abuja |
| Sydney, Australia | 5:09 am | 9 hours ahead of Abuja |
Best time to call Nigeria
A nine to five working day in Abuja against a nine to five day elsewhere. The overlap column is the stretch when both desks are open, given on each side's own clock.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Abuja | Window there |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York the US East Coast | 5 hours ahead | 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm | 9:00 am to 12:00 pm |
| Los Angeles the US West Coast | 8 hours ahead | no shared working hours | try either side of the working day |
| London the United Kingdom | same clock | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm |
| Mumbai India | 4 hours 30 minutes behind | 9:00 am to 12:30 pm | 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm |
Daylight hours in Abuja today
In Abuja the sun rose at 6:19 am today and sets at 6:24 pm, giving 12 hours 5 minutes of daylight. The capital is losing 30 seconds of daylight a day at the moment, and the sun stands highest at 12:22 pm.
Solar noon in Abuja is 12:22 pm, which is 22 minutes after clock noon. That gap is the capital sitting at 7.40 degrees east while its clock is set to Africa/Lagos, plus the equation of time, which today runs 8.6 minutes ahead of mean time.
Moon phase over Abuja tonight
The moon is waning gibbous tonight, 15.7 days into the current lunation, with roughly 99 percent of the disc lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 as Nigeria reads the date, at 5:11 am local. The moon phase page has the full cycle.
Current time in Nigeria cities
The 111 cities this site covers inside Nigeria, alphabetically, each with its own ticking clock and its own sunrise page.
Every IANA time zone in Nigeria
These are the identifiers a computer uses. A program that stores Africa/Lagos rather than UTC+1 keeps working through every future rule change, which is the whole reason the database is keyed this way.
Convert Nigeria time to another zone
The converter pages below take WAT against the zones people most often measure it from. Each one carries a full conversion table rather than a single answer.
Information about Nigeria
Nigeria sits in Africa, carries the ISO country code NG and a population of about 223,800,000. Its capital Abuja is at 9.08 degrees north, 7.40 degrees east, which is the coordinate every sunrise and solar noon on this page is computed from.
Upcoming dates in Nigeria
Read on Nigeria's own clock, so the day counts below start from September 26 and not from a UTC date. The list is the internationally observed calendar plus the dates common across Africa, along with this country's own clock changes and the next solstices and equinoxes. National days set by a country's own statute are not included, because this site carries no statute table and a guessed one would be worse than an honest gap.
| Date | Day | What falls on it | Days away |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 21, 2026 | Monday | December solstice, 9:50 pm local astronomical | 86 |
| December 25, 2026 | Friday | Christmas Day observed widely | 90 |
| December 31, 2026 | Thursday | New Year's Eve observance | 96 |
| January 1, 2027 | Friday | New Year's Day observed almost everywhere | 97 |
| March 20, 2027 | Saturday | March equinox, 9:24 pm local astronomical | 175 |
| May 1, 2027 | Saturday | International Workers' Day public holiday in most countries | 217 |
| June 21, 2027 | Monday | June solstice, 3:10 pm local astronomical | 268 |
| September 23, 2027 | Thursday | September equinox, 7:01 am local astronomical | 362 |
| December 22, 2027 | Wednesday | December solstice, 3:42 am local astronomical | 452 |
| December 25, 2027 | Saturday | Christmas Day observed widely | 455 |
Sun and moon in Abuja today
The sun is up in Abuja for 12 hours 5 minutes today, from 6:19 am to 6:24 pm. The moon sets in Abuja at 5:55 am and comes up again at 6:16 pm. The next phase is the full moon on September 26, 2026. The moon is full, or as near to it as makes no difference, and the whole of the face turned towards us is lit.
| Sun | Time in Abuja |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:10 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:34 am |
| Civil dawn | 5:58 am |
| Sunrise | 6:19 am |
| Solar noon | 12:22 pm |
| Sunset | 6:24 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:45 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 7:09 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:34 pm |
Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.
| Light band | Time in Abuja | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 5:58 am to 6:06 am | 0h 08m |
| Morning golden hour | 6:06 am to 6:47 am | 0h 41m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:56 pm to 6:37 pm | 0h 41m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:37 pm to 6:45 pm | 0h 08m |
Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.
| Moon | Reading in Abuja |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:16 pm |
| Moonset | 5:55 am |
| Phase | full moon, waxing |
| Illumination | 100% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 15.3 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 380,400 km |
Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.
Meeting planner: Nigeria and four other places
Every hour of Saturday, September 26, 2026 in Nigeria, read across 4 other places. Columns are Nigeria local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
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| Nigeria local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NigeriaWAT UTC+1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPDT UTC-7 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 4:30 | 5:30 | 6:30 | 7:30 | 8:30 | 9:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 22:30 | 23:30 | 0:30+1 | 1:30+1 | 2:30+1 | 3:30+1 |
| SingaporeSGT UTC+8 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0+1 | 1+1 | 2+1 | 3+1 | 4+1 | 5+1 | 6+1 |
No hour on Saturday, September 26, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Los Angeles and Singapore are 15 hours apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 9:00 am in Nigeria it is working hours in Nigeria, Delhi and Singapore, but outside them in Los Angeles and New York. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Abuja
Seven days from September 26, 2026, computed for Abuja at 9.08 degrees north, 7.40 degrees east, on the clock of Africa/Lagos. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday September 26 | 5:10 am | 6:19 am | 12:22 pm | 3:37 pm | 6:24 pm | 7:30 pm |
| Sunday September 27 | 5:10 am | 6:19 am | 12:21 pm | 3:37 pm | 6:24 pm | 7:29 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 5:10 am | 6:19 am | 12:21 pm | 3:37 pm | 6:23 pm | 7:28 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 5:09 am | 6:19 am | 12:21 pm | 3:37 pm | 6:22 pm | 7:28 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 5:09 am | 6:19 am | 12:20 pm | 3:37 pm | 6:22 pm | 7:27 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 5:09 am | 6:19 am | 12:20 pm | 3:37 pm | 6:21 pm | 7:27 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 5:09 am | 6:19 am | 12:20 pm | 3:37 pm | 6:21 pm | 7:26 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Abuja, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.
Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.
Qibla direction from Abuja
From Abuja the qibla is 64.6 degrees on a true compass, which is east-northeast, or 25.4 degrees north of due east. The Kaaba is 3,729 km away, 2,317 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Abuja to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.
The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Abuja before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.
Questions about the time in Nigeria
- What time is it in Nigeria right now?
- It is 8:09 pm in Abuja as this page was served, Saturday, September 26, 2026. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.
- What time zone is Nigeria in?
- Nigeria uses Africa/Lagos, currently WAT at UTC+1.
- What is the UTC offset in Nigeria?
- UTC+1 in Abuja at this instant.
- Does Nigeria observe daylight saving time?
- No. Nigeria stays on UTC+1 all year and does not move its clocks.
- What time does the sun set in Abuja today?
- 6:24 pm, after a sunrise at 6:19 am and 12 hours 5 minutes of daylight.
- When is the best time to call Nigeria from the United States?
- Between 9:00 am and 12:00 pm New York time, which is 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm in Abuja.
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