Current Time in Kano, Nigeria

How Kano Keeps Time

Kano keeps WAT, UTC+1. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Kano; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.

Kano runs on the Africa/Lagos zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC+1 right now. There is no daylight saving here, so that offset holds all year and the difference to other places only changes when they move their own clocks.

The sun rises in Kano at 6:16 am today and sets at 6:03 pm — 11 hours 47 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:10 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (12.00, 8.52), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Kano has about 12 hours 50 minutes of daylight in June and 11 hours 25 minutes in December. The difference is about 1 hour 25 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

The whole of Nigeria keeps one time, so the clock on this page is also the clock in Abuja and in every other city listed below.

Kano at a Glance

How Kano Compares with Other Cities

Read the last column as the other city relative to Kano. Where either place uses daylight saving, the gap changes for part of the year — the time difference calculator always shows today’s figure.

Nearby Listed Cities to Kano

Distances are straight-line geographic distances between the coordinates used by the directory; road or rail distances will be longer.

Other Cities in Nigeria

All of these read UTC+1, the same as Kano, because Nigeria keeps one zone nationally. Each page adds that city’s own sunrise, sunset and prayer times, which do differ.