West Africa Time

Time zones of Africa:

Light Blue	Cape Verde Time[a] (UTC−1)
Blue	Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)
Red	Central European Time West Africa Time (UTC+1)
Ochre	Central Africa Time Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time South African Standard Time (UTC+2)
Green	East Africa Time (UTC+3)
Turquoise	Mauritius Time[b] Seychelles Time[b] (UTC+4)

^a The islands of Cape Verde and Canary Islands are to the west of the African mainland.
^b Mauritius and the Seychelles are to the east and north-east of Madagascar respectively.

West Africa Time, or WAT, is a time zone used in west-central Africa (though not in countries west of Benin, which instead use UTC). The zone is one hour ahead of UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) (UTC+01), which makes it the same as Central European Time (CET) during winter and Western European Summer Time (WEST) or British Summer Time (BST) during the summer. It does not include most of the countries that make up the West Africa region (these use UTC instead).

As most of this time zone is in the equatorial region there is no significant change in day length throughout the year, so daylight saving time is not observed. The exception to this is only Namibia, which moves to West Africa Summer Time (WAST) (UTC+02) in the summer months (beginning of September to beginning of April in Namibia) so in summer shares the same time as Botswana and South Africa.

West Africa Time is used by the following countries:

• Algeria
• Angola
• Benin
• Chad
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Democratic Republic of the Congo (western)
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Namibia (observes daylight savings)
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Republic of the Congo
• Tunisia