Time difference between Amsterdam and Lagos

Lagos is 1 hour behind Amsterdam

Amsterdam, the Netherlands is UTC+1 · Lagos, Nigeria is UTC+1 — on standard time

The gap is not the same all year

Every converter gives one number for this pair. That number is right for most of the year and wrong for part of it, because Amsterdam goes forward on the last Sunday in March and back on the last Sunday in October and Lagos does not change its clocks.

Lagos stays put all year while Amsterdam moves, so a meeting fixed in Lagos's calendar shifts by an hour twice a year at Amsterdam's end.

About Amsterdam and Lagos

The Netherlands kept its own offset of UTC+00:19:32 until 1937 — nineteen and a half minutes, set on Amsterdam itself. It moved to a round twenty minutes, then to Central European Time under occupation, and stayed there.

Nigeria is UTC+1 with no daylight saving. It matches Central European Time in winter and falls an hour behind in summer, so a standing Lagos–Berlin meeting moves twice a year entirely at the European end.

When they can both be at their desks

Nine-to-five in both cities overlaps for 7 hours — 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM in Amsterdam, the same moment as 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM in Lagos.

Amsterdam to Lagos, hour by hour

On the usual gap of 1 hour.

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