Parakou, Benin
Current time in Benin
Time zone: WAT (UTC/GMT +01:00) — Africa/Porto-Novo
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -7 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +1 ) Parakou, Benin |
Current Time in other Cities of Benin
Parakou clocks, offsets and daylight saving
If you need the offset: Parakou is on WAT, 1 hour ahead of UTC, i.e. UTC+01:00. The matching IANA zone is Africa/Porto-Novo.
Clocks in Parakou stay put. With no summer-time switch, the UTC+01:00 offset is fixed and the differences shown below only shift when the other end changes.
Around 255,478 people live in Parakou, making it the 3rd largest of the 5 Benin cities covered here.
Time gaps from Parakou right now
Current gap between Parakou and cities people most often need to coordinate with. These figures already account for daylight saving where it applies.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Parakou is 5 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Parakou is 8 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | same time as Parakou |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Parakou is 1 hour behind |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Parakou is 3 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Parakou is 4 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Parakou is 7 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Parakou is 8 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Parakou is 9 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Parakou is 4 hours ahead |
Best time to call Parakou
Overlap of a normal working day, shown in Parakou time — outside these windows one side is off the clock.
| London | 09:00–17:00 in Parakou | 8 hours overlap |
| Paris | 09:00–16:00 in Parakou | 7 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 09:00–14:00 in Parakou | 5 hours overlap |
| Sao Paulo | 13:00–17:00 in Parakou | 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 Parakou
These Benin cities also use Africa/Porto-Novo, so their clocks read identically to Parakou at every moment of the year.
Popular cities
| New York, United States |
| London, United Kingdom |
| Paris, France |
| Tokyo, Japan |
| Beijing, China |
| Sydney, Australia |
| Berlin, Germany |
| Moscow, Russia |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| Singapore, Singapore |
| Los Angeles, United States |
| Chicago, United States |
| Toronto, Canada |
| Mexico City, Mexico |
| São Paulo, Brazil |
| Mumbai, India |
| Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Seoul, South Korea |
| Istanbul, Turkey |
| Cairo, Egypt |
| Lagos, Nigeria |
| Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Madrid, Spain |
| Rome, Italy |