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 Moroccan Summer Time
	UTC+01:00	West Africa Time / Central European 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 (although the latter area uses Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3) most of the year)

As this time zone is in the equatorial and tropical regions, there is little 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
• Namibia
• Rwanda
• Sudan
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

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

• Lesotho
• South Africa
• Swaziland