Time difference between Lagos and Paris

Paris is 1 hour ahead of Lagos

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

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

About Lagos and Paris

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.

France is on Central European Time and geographically should not be — Paris sits almost on the Greenwich meridian. It has been an hour ahead of the sun since the occupation in 1940 and never went back, which is why sunset in Paris is so much later than in London for the same latitude.

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 Paris.

Lagos to Paris, hour by hour

On the usual gap of 1 hour.

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