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- Children's Day27 May 2026
- Id el Kabir27 May 2026
- Democracy Day12 Jun 2026
- Islamic New Year16 Jun 2026
- Birthday of Muhammad (Mawlid)25 Aug 2026
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About Lagos
Home to roughly 14,862,000 residents, Lagos is one of the world's largest urban centres in Nigeria. Its terrain rests around 11 m of elevation.
Lagos keeps time on the Africa/Lagos IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the equatorial belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (6.52°).
Nigeria's currency is NGN and its calling prefix is +234. Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent Lagos's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in Lagos
The current local time in Lagos, Nigeria is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Lagos uses the IANA time zone Africa/Lagos, currently UTC+1.
Whether Lagos observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Africa/Lagos) is the source of truth.
Lagos is currently 5 hours ahead of New York.
Lagos is currently in the same time as London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Lagos are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (6.5244, 3.3792).
Nigeria uses the NGN currency and the +234 international dialing code.
Lagos sits at 6.5244° N, 3.3792° E, 11 m above sea level, in Nigeria.