Satellite View of Lome
Lome sits at 6.1725, 1.2314. Drag to pan, click then scroll to zoom, and switch between satellite, terrain and street layers.
Africa · Africa/Lome
Live local time in Lome, with today's date, the UTC offset, the difference from your own clock, and current weather conditions.
Live data
Weather, sky, sea and location for Lome, all updating live.
Lome sits at 6.1725, 1.2314. Drag to pan, click then scroll to zoom, and switch between satellite, terrain and street layers.
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Reference
| Country | Togo |
| Capital | Lome |
| Region | Africa |
| IANA time zone | Africa/Lome |
| Current UTC offset | — |
| Time zones in country | 1 |
| Daylight saving | Not observed |
| Population | about 9 million |
| Currency | CFA Franc (XOF) |
| Calling code | +228 |
| Capital coordinates | 6.1725, 1.2314 |
| Day of year | — |
| ISO week number | — |
| Season in Lome | — |
| Daylight today | — |
| Sun altitude now | — |
| Moon phase | — |
| Hemisphere | Northern |
| Coastline | Has a coastline |
Working with Togo
How Lome lines up against the cities people most often need to coordinate with.
| City | Local time | Date | Difference |
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Differences are measured against Lome. For a specific date, use the converter; to find a meeting slot, use the meeting planner.
Understanding the offset
Lome sits in Africa/Lome. That name matters more than the number: an offset like the one shown above is only true today, whereas the zone name carries every rule about when the country changes its clocks. Software that stores offsets instead of zone names breaks at the next changeover.
Togo keeps the same offset all year. That sounds simpler, and it is, but it means the gap to any country that does change clocks shifts by an hour twice a year without anything changing on this end.
The whole of Togo runs on Africa/Lome, so there is no internal difference to worry about. Whatever the clock says in Lome is what it says nationwide.
When you send a time to someone in Togo, write the zone with it, or better, send a calendar invitation that converts automatically for each recipient. "14:00 UTC" cannot be misread; "2pm" in a message reaching three countries reliably produces at least one person joining an hour out.
Answers
The clock at the top of this page shows the current local time in Lome, Togo, updating every second. It is calculated from the Africa/Lome time zone using your browser's copy of the IANA time zone database, so daylight saving rules are applied automatically and correctly.
Lome uses the Africa/Lome zone. The current UTC offset is shown in the panel above and updates itself if the country changes its clocks. The whole country uses this single time zone.
No. Togo stays on the same offset all year, so the gap between Lome and any country that does change clocks will differ by an hour for part of the year. That is the most common cause of a recurring meeting drifting.
The comparison line above already shows the difference between Lome and your own device clock. For a specific date and time rather than right now, use the time zone converter, which handles daylight saving for the date you enter rather than for today.
Open-Meteo, a free weather service. The request goes directly from your browser to their API, so nothing about your visit passes through our server. It reports current conditions and a short forecast for Lome.
It reads your own device clock and re-expresses that instant in the Africa/Lome zone, so it is exactly as accurate as your device. Almost every phone and computer syncs to a network time server automatically, which puts you within a fraction of a second.