Porto-NovoBenin
Current time in Porto-Novo, Benin
Thursday, 24 September 2026
West Africa TimeUTC+01:00
⛶ Full-screen clockPorto-Novo time at a glance
- Country
- Benin
- Location
- Capital city of Benin
- Time zone
Africa/Porto-Novo- UTC offset now
UTC+01:00- Current zone label
- GMT+1
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Porto-Novo time guide
Does Porto-Novo change its clocks?
UTC+01:00.- Year-round offset
- UTC+01:00, with no seasonal clock change
- Time-zone identifier
- Africa/Porto-Novo
- Porto-Novo and London
- 1 hour ahead of GMT; the same clock time during BST
- Porto-Novo and New York
- 6 hours ahead of EST; 5 hours ahead of EDT
Commune and department
Porto-Novo is reported within Ouémé
Benin’s official 2024 civil-registration yearbook reports Porto-Novo as a commune within the Ouémé department and estimates the commune population at 340,941. Department totals cover a wider area and should not be substituted for the capital commune.
Time-zone identity for Porto-Novo
- IANA zone
Africa/Porto-Novo- UTC offset now
- UTC+01:00
- Current zone label
- GMT+1
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Porto-Novo is currently 1 hour ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Porto-Novo
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Wednesday, 29 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Porto-Novo
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Africa/Porto-Novo, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the previous 5 years.
Next 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the next 5 years.
Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.
Capital city context
About Porto-Novo, capital of Benin
Porto-Novo is the capital of Benin. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Benin
- Administrative area
- Ouémé, Benin
- Population
- 264,320
- Coordinates
- 6.4965° N, 2.6036° E. The elevation is 20 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Porto-Novo
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Porto-Novo. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- MissérétéOuémé, Benin7.1 km north
Africa/Porto-NovoSame local time - AdjarraOuémé, Benin8.3 km northeast
Africa/Porto-NovoSame local time - AvrankouOuémé, Benin8.4 km northeast
Africa/Porto-NovoSame local time - EkpéOuémé, Benin14 km southwest
Africa/Porto-NovoSame local time - SemiOuémé, Benin15 km south
Africa/Porto-NovoSame local time - BanigbéPlateau, Benin20 km northeast
Africa/Porto-NovoSame local time
Sources for Porto-Novo time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 4 sources
- GeoNames cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.
- Civil Registration Statistical Yearbook 2024National Institute of Statistics and Demography of Benin · 2024 statistical yearbook published 2026 · AccessedOfficial 2024 commune estimate and Ouémé administrative context for Porto-Novo.