Cotonou, Benin
Current time in Benin
Time zone: WAT (UTC/GMT +01:00) — Africa/Porto-Novo
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, 1 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +01:00) Africa/Porto-Novo |
Current Time in other Cities of Benin
Cotonou time zone and UTC offset
Local time here is WAT, which sits 1 hour ahead of UTC, written UTC+01:00. The canonical zone name is Africa/Porto-Novo, and that is what to pick from a time zone dropdown.
Daylight saving is not observed here, so UTC+01:00 is year-round. Any seasonal drift you notice against another city comes from that city, not from Cotonou.
Time gaps from Cotonou right now
Live differences from Cotonou, calculated from each zone's rules as they stand today rather than a fixed table.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Cotonou is 5 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Cotonou is 8 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | same time as Cotonou |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Cotonou is 1 hour behind |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Cotonou is 3 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Cotonou is 4 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Cotonou is 7 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Cotonou is 8 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Cotonou is 9 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Cotonou is 4 hours ahead |
Scheduling calls with Cotonou
Assuming a 09:00–17:00 day at both ends, these windows (in Cotonou local time) fall inside working hours for both cities.
| London | 09:00–17:00 in Cotonou | 8 hours overlap |
| Paris | 09:00–16:00 in Cotonou | 7 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 09:00–14:00 in Cotonou | 5 hours overlap |
| Sao Paulo | 13:00–17:00 in Cotonou | 4 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with Los Angeles, Tokyo or Sydney, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
Same local time as Cotonou
These Benin cities also use Africa/Porto-Novo, so their clocks read identically to Cotonou at every moment of the year.
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