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West Africa Time, or WAT, is a time zone used in west-central Africa. [1] West Africa Time is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC+01:00 ), which aligns it with Central European Time (CET) during winter, and Western European Summer Time (WEST) / British Summer Time (BST) during summer.
Time in Africa. Africa, the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, spans across six different time zone offsets from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC): UTC−01:00 to UTC+04:00. [2] [3] As Africa straddles the equator and tropics, there is little change in daylight hours throughout the year [4] and as such daylight saving ...
Africa/Accra. The western African country Ghana observes a single time zone, denoted as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC±00:00 ). [1] [2] Ghana shares this time zone with several other countries, including fourteen in western Africa where it was formerly known as Western Sahara Standard Time (WSST). [3] Ghana does not have an associated daylight ...
Time in Nigeria. Nigeria observes West Africa Time (WAT), which is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC+01:00 ), year-round as standard time. Nigeria has never observed daylight saving time. It shares WAT with fourteen other countries in Africa. Nigeria's local mean time was UTC +00:13:35. Prior to 1 January 1914, Nigeria was not ...
Time in Chad is given by a single time zone, denoted as West Africa Time (WAT; UTC+01:00 ). [1] [2] Chad shares this time zone with several other countries, including fourteen in western Africa. [3]
Time in Cameroon is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as West Africa Time (WAT; UTC+01:00 ). [1] [2] Cameroon adopted WAT on 1 January 1912 as Cameroun, [3] and has never observed daylight saving time.
Time in Benin is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as West Africa Time (WAT; UTC+01:00 ). [1] [2] Benin adopted WAT on 1 January 1912 as French Dahomey, [3] and has never observed daylight saving time.
South African Standard Time ( SAST) is the time zone used by all of South Africa as well as Eswatini and Lesotho. The zone is two hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+02:00) and is the same as Central Africa Time. Daylight saving time is not observed in either time zone. Solar noon in this time zone occurs at 30° E in SAST, effectively making Pietermaritzburg at the correct solar noon point, with ...