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Time in Togo — regions, cities and time zones

Togo uses Greenwich Mean Time, UTC+0, all year with no daylight saving. Lomé, Sokodé and Kara share the single offset. That puts the country on the same clock as London in winter and an hour behind it in summer.

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Capital Lomé · Africa · ISO TG / TGO

Lomé, Togo

Friday, 4 September 2026

UTC+0 · Africa/Lome

Time and sun data for Lomé, Togo

The sun in Lomé

Sunrise 05:49 Solar noon 11:56 Sunset 18:02 Daylight 12 h 13 min Night 11 h 47 min Civil twilight 05:28 – 18:23

States and regions (6)

Current time in Lomé

Lomé sits on the Gulf of Guinea coast and is the capital, the main port and the reference for national time, listed as Africa/Lome in time zone databases. Its offset is zero — Togolese local time equals UTC exactly, with nothing to add or subtract.

This is unusually convenient. Log files, UTC timestamps, aviation times and international standards all speak the same numbers as the wall clock in Lomé. For anyone doing technical work, Togo removes a conversion step that most countries impose.

A narrow country on one clock

Togo is a long, thin strip running north from the coast, roughly 50 to 100 kilometres wide in most places and several hundred kilometres tall. That shape is almost ideal for a single time zone: the east-west extent, which is what actually governs solar time, is tiny.

Maritime region, including Lomé: UTC+0. Plateaux and Centrale regions, including Atakpamé and Sokodé: UTC+0. Kara and Savanes in the north, including Dapaong: UTC+0. Travelling the length of the country changes the landscape considerably and the clock not at all.

Neighbours and the local time seam

West Africa is split between two offsets, and Togo sits right on the join. Ghana to the west also uses UTC+0. Benin to the east uses UTC+1, as does Nigeria beyond it. A short drive east from Lomé toward Cotonou therefore costs an hour, while the drive west to Accra costs nothing.

Lomé is a border city where the frontier is a few minutes' walk from the centre. It is entirely possible to have breakfast in one time zone and cross into the next before the coffee has gone cold. Bus schedules on the coastal corridor between Accra, Lomé, Cotonou and Lagos are one of the few places where the difference matters daily. Check which city's time a departure is quoted in.

Why no summer time

Togo lies between roughly six and eleven degrees north, close enough to the equator that day length holds nearly steady all year. Sunrise and sunset barely wander, so there is no seasonal surplus of evening daylight for a clock change to exploit. The offset has stayed fixed, and there is no seasonal transition to plan around.

The visible consequence is on the European side. Someone in Paris is one hour ahead of Lomé in winter and two hours ahead in summer, purely because Paris moves and Lomé does not. When you schedule a recurring call, anchor it to Togolese time and let the other end absorb the shift.

Practical scheduling notes

Government offices and banks in Lomé operate on weekday hours, with reduced service on Saturday. Because local time equals UTC, any timestamp you receive from a server needs no adjustment before comparing it to a Togolese appointment.

North American callers should expect the Togolese afternoon to fall in their morning; the practical overlap is a few hours either side of midday in Lomé.

Questions and answers
Is Togo the same time as UTC?
Yes, exactly. The offset is zero all year, so Togolese local time and UTC show the same hour.
Is Togo on the same clock as Benin?
No. Benin is UTC+1, one hour ahead, so crossing the eastern border changes the time even though the distance is short.
Does Togo change its clocks in spring and autumn?
No. There is no daylight saving; only countries at the other end of your call are moving.

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