Lomé, Togo · UTC+0
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Lomé sits on the southern coast of Togo, right at the border with Ghana. The city’s western outskirts effectively touch Aflao, Ghana’s border town, and the two settlements merge into a single urban area divided by a border crossing. Both cities run on UTC+0: Lomé on Africa/Lome, Accra on Africa/Accra. No daylight saving on either side.
walking across the border from the city center
This shared clock makes the Lomé-Accra border one of the most temporally frictionless crossings in Africa. No clock adjustment needed, no “lose an hour, gain an hour” calculation at the crossing. Traders who work across this border every day operate on a single time reference.
Lomé is the only capital city in the world where you can walk across the border into another country from the city center. The Grand Marché (Grand Market) extends close to the Ghana border, and the informal economy here straddles the crossing with complete indifference to national boundaries.
At 6 degrees north, Lomé has near-constant daylength. The harmattan season in winter brings haze and dust. The rainy seasons punctuate the year. But the clock barely varies.
Kara in the north of Togo keeps the same time. Noon in Lomé is noon in London in winter, GMT to GMT.
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Questions about time in Lomé
- What timezone is Lomé in?
- Lomé uses the IANA timezone
Africa/Lome. The UTC offset is always UTC+0 — this timezone does not observe daylight saving time. - Does Lomé observe daylight saving time?
- No. Lomé does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC+0 all year round.
- What is the current UTC offset for Lomé?
- Lomé is currently at UTC+0.
- What is the time difference between Lomé and New York?
- Lomé is currently 4 hours ahead of New York.
- What is the time difference between Lomé and London?
- Lomé is currently 1 hour behind London.
- What is the time difference between Lomé and Los Angeles?
- Lomé is currently 7 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the time difference between Lomé and Tokyo?
- Lomé is currently 9 hours behind Tokyo.
- What is the IANA timezone name for Lomé?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for Lomé is
Africa/Lome. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Africa/Lome' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Africa/Lome')`), or any IANA-compatible library.