Central Africa Time

Time in Africa

	UTC−01:00	Cape Verde Time
	UTC±00:00	Greenwich Mean Time
	UTC±00:00 UTC+01:00	Greenwich Mean Time Greenwich Mean Time+1
	UTC+01:00	West Africa Time / Central European Time
	UTC+01:00 UTC+02:00	West Africa Time West Africa Summer Time
	UTC+02:00	Central Africa Time / South African Standard Time / Eastern European Time
	UTC+03:00	East Africa Time
	UTC+04:00	Mauritius Time / Seychelles Time

Light colors indicate where standard time is observed all year; dark colors indicate where daylight savings is observed.

Note: The islands of Cape Verde are to the west of the African mainland.

Central Africa Time, or CAT, is a time zone used in central and southern Africa. Central Africa Time is two hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+02:00), which is the same as the adjacent South Africa Standard Time and Eastern European Time.

As this time zone is predominantly in the equatorial region, there is no significant change in day length throughout the year and so daylight saving time is not observed.

Central Africa Time is used by the following countries:

• Burundi
• Botswana
• Egypt (observes Eastern European Time)
• Democratic Republic of the Congo (eastern)
• Libya
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Rwanda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

The following counties use South African Standard Time instead of Central Africa Time:

• Lesotho
• South Africa
• Swaziland