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Current Time in Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Time and Sun Facts for Port Harcourt

Local time
6:17 pm
Date
Sunday, 25 October 2026
Time zone
Africa/Lagos
UTC offset
UTC+1
Daylight saving
Not observed here — the offset is the same all year
Sunrise
6:16 am
Sunset
6:15 pm
Day length
11 hours 59 minutes
Coordinates
4.82, 7.05

How Port Harcourt Keeps Time

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

Port Harcourt 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 Port Harcourt at 6:16 am today and sets at 6:15 pm — 11 hours 59 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:15 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (4.82, 7.05), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Port Harcourt has about 12 hours 24 minutes of daylight in June and 11 hours 51 minutes in December. The difference is about 34 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.

Port Harcourt at a Glance

Coordinates4.8200, 7.0500
IANA time zoneAfrica/Lagos
Current UTC offsetUTC+1
Daylight savingNot currently observed
Sunrise today6:16 am
Sunset today6:15 pm
Solar noon12:15 pm
Daylight today11 hours 59 minutes
Straight-line distance to Abuja474 km
Current clock difference vs AbujaSame civil time

How Port Harcourt Compares with Other Cities

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

CityLocal timeCompared with Port Harcourt
London5:17 pm1 hour behind
New York1:17 pm5 hours behind
Los Angeles10:17 am8 hours behind
Dubai9:17 pm3 hours ahead
Karachi10:17 pm4 hours ahead
Singapore1:17 am7 hours ahead
Tokyo2:17 am8 hours ahead
Sydney4:17 am10 hours ahead

Nearby Listed Cities to Port Harcourt

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

CityApprox. distanceLocal time
Lagos448 km6:17 pm
Ibadan450 km6:17 pm
Abuja474 km6:17 pm
Kaduna635 km6:17 pm
Kano815 km6:17 pm

Other Cities in Nigeria

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