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Learn about the time zones, daylight saving time and history of time in Africa. Africa spans across six different time zone offsets from UTC, from −1 to +4 hours.
This web page shows the number of time zones in each country and their UTC offsets. France has the most time zones with 12, followed by Russia with 11, and the United States with 10.
A comprehensive list of time zones from release 2024a of the tz database, which partitions the world into regions with the same local clocks. The list includes the canonical zone name, the UTC offset, the time zone abbreviation, and the source file for each zone.
A comprehensive list of the UTC time offsets, showing the difference in hours and minutes from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), from the westernmost (−12:00) to the easternmost (+14:00). It includes countries and regions that observe them during standard time or year-round, as well as information on daylight saving time or historical changes in offsets.
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time. It is based on atomic clocks and is not adjusted for daylight saving time. Learn about its history, uses, mechanism, and leap seconds.
A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes. The web page shows a table of locations and their UTC offsets, ranging from UTC−12:00 to UTC+14:00, with or without daylight saving time.
Central Africa Time (CAT) is a time zone used in central and southern Africa, two hours ahead of UTC. It is observed by several countries, including Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The zone is two hours ahead of UTC 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 Johannesburg and Pretoria slightly west at 28° E and Durban slightly east at 31° E .