Africa uses six time zones and thirteen standard time zone names to describe them. Africa time zone offsets range from UTC/GMT -1 to UTC/GMT + 4. From west to east the time zones in Africa are:



(UTC/GMT -1) Cape Verde Time Zone. (UTC/GMT +0) Greenwich Mean Time Zone, Western European Time Zone and Western Sahara Time Zone. (UTC/GMT +1) Central European Time Zone and West Africa Time Zone. (UTC/GMT +2 ) Central Africa Time Zone, Eastern European Time Zone, and South Africa Time Zone. (UTC/GMT +3) East Africa Time Zone. (UTC/GMT +4) Mauritius Time Zone, Reunion Time Zone and Seychelles Time Zone.



View Africa Time Zone abbreviations for more details.

The government of Morocco announced that effective October 27, 2018 the country will observe daylight saving time year round UTC/GMT + 1h year round except during Ramadan when the country will observe UTC/GMT + 0h.

The king of Swaziland announced in 2018 that the country has been renamed eSwatini which means "land of the Swazis". This change had no impact on the country's time observance.

Africa Time Zone Map

Note: Cape Verde Time is UTC/GMT -1 and Mauritius Time and Seychelles are UTC/GMT +4.