Time difference between Madrid and Lagos

Lagos is 1 hour behind Madrid

Madrid, Spain 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 Madrid 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 Madrid moves, so a meeting fixed in Lagos's calendar shifts by an hour twice a year at Madrid's end.

About Madrid and Lagos

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.

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 Madrid, the same moment as 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM in Lagos.

Madrid to Lagos, hour by hour

On the usual gap of 1 hour.

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