Local time in Benin
Republic of Benin
Current local time in Benin (WAT (UTC+1)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — Porto-Novo
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Differences are relative to Porto-Novo, Benin, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Benin
- Standard label
- WAT (UTC+1)
- Standard offset (Porto-Novo)
- UTC+1
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- Porto-Novo
- IANA zones
- Africa/Lagos
Benin uses WAT (UTC+1) as its standard time. Clocks stay on the same offset all year round — daylight saving time is not observed. Times on this page are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database, so they always match the real current time in Benin.
Sunrise and sunset in Porto-Novo
At 6.5° north, Porto-Novo gets 12 h 30 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 11 h 45 min around the December solstice — a difference of 0 h 45 min.
On standard time the sun is highest at about 12:50 on average — 50 minutes after 12:00 — because the clocks are set ahead of local solar time, which gives long, light evenings.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 07:07 | 13:01 | 18:56 | 11 h 48 min |
| 21 February | 07:06 | 13:04 | 19:03 | 11 h 57 min |
| 21 March | 06:54 | 12:58 | 19:01 | 12 h 07 min |
| 21 April | 06:40 | 12:49 | 18:58 | 12 h 18 min |
| 21 May | 06:34 | 12:47 | 19:00 | 12 h 26 min |
| 21 June | 06:37 | 12:52 | 19:07 | 12 h 30 min |
| 21 July | 06:43 | 12:57 | 19:10 | 12 h 27 min |
| 21 August | 06:45 | 12:54 | 19:03 | 12 h 18 min |
| 21 September | 06:40 | 12:44 | 18:47 | 12 h 07 min |
| 21 October | 06:36 | 12:35 | 18:33 | 11 h 57 min |
| 21 November | 06:42 | 12:36 | 18:30 | 11 h 48 min |
| 21 December | 06:56 | 12:48 | 18:41 | 11 h 45 min |
Calculated for Porto-Novo (6.48°, 2.62°; coordinates from Wikidata) with the standard solar-position formulas used by NOAA, for a sea-level horizon. Results are accurate to about a minute; hills, buildings and altitude shift what you actually see. Times change by only a minute or two from year to year.
Daylight saving time in Benin
Benin does not change its clocks: it stays on WAT (UTC+1) all year in 2026 and 2027.
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.