Time difference between Lagos and Amsterdam

Amsterdam is 1 hour ahead of Lagos

Lagos, Nigeria is UTC+1 · Amsterdam, the Netherlands 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 Lagos does not change its clocks and Amsterdam goes forward on the last Sunday in March and back on the last Sunday in October.

Lagos stays put all year while Amsterdam moves, so the gap changes twice a year from Amsterdam's side alone. A recurring meeting set in Lagos's calendar will drift by an hour without anyone touching it.

About Lagos and Amsterdam

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.

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.

When they can both be at their desks

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

Lagos to Amsterdam, hour by hour

On the usual gap of 1 hour.

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