Time difference between Paris and Lagos

Lagos is 1 hour behind Paris

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

About Paris and Lagos

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.

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

Paris to Lagos, hour by hour

On the usual gap of 1 hour.

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