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Central Africa Time

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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, Egypt Standard Time, Eastern European Time, Kaliningrad Time and Central European Summer Time.

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Time zones of Africa:
 UTC-01:00  Cape Verde Time[a]
 UTC±00:00  Greenwich Mean Time
 UTC+01:00 
 UTC+02:00 
 UTC+03:00  East Africa Time
 UTC+04:00 
a The islands of Cape Verde are to the west of the African mainland.
b Mauritius and the Seychelles are to the east and north-east of Madagascar respectively.

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 observed by the following countries:

The following countries in Africa also use an offset of UTC+02:00 all-year round:

  • Flag_of_Egypt.svg Egypt (observes Egypt Standard Time)
  • Flag_of_Eswatini.svg Eswatini (observes South African Standard Time)
  • Flag_of_Lesotho.svg Lesotho (observes South African Standard Time)
  • Flag_of_Libya.svg Libya (observes Eastern European Time)
  • Flag_of_South_Africa.svg South Africa (observes South African Standard Time)