Time Difference: New York to Lagos

Summary

See live clocks for New York and Lagos side by side, convert a meeting time between the two cities, and check current overlapping business hours.

How it works

1. Your browser reads the current UTC timestamp every second.
2. It converts that timestamp to America/New_York local time using the Intl API.
3. It converts the same timestamp to Africa/Lagos local time (WAT, always UTC+1).
4. Both clocks and the computed offset are rendered live without a page reload.
5. The offset shifts between 5 h and 6 h when New York transitions between EDT and EST.
6. The meeting converter maps any selected hour in one city to the matching hour in the other.

Use cases

• Schedule a call between a New York office and a Lagos team.
• Check whether US East Coast hours overlap with Nigerian business hours.
• Verify whether New York is 5 or 6 hours behind Lagos today.
• Plan a webinar that works for both EST/EDT and WAT audiences.
• Confirm a flight departure or arrival time across the two cities.
• Help remote workers quickly find a shared working window.

Frequently Asked Questions