Time difference between Lagos and Madrid

Madrid is 1 hour ahead of Lagos

Lagos, Nigeria is UTC+1 · Madrid, Spain 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 Madrid goes forward on the last Sunday in March and back on the last Sunday in October.

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

About Lagos and Madrid

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.

Spain is on Central European Time and sits west of Britain — Madrid is at the same longitude as Cardiff and keeps clocks an hour ahead of it. Franco moved the country onto German time in 1940 and it stayed, which is the reason Spanish dinner is at ten.

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 Madrid.

Lagos to Madrid, hour by hour

On the usual gap of 1 hour.

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