Central 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.

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 (SAST) and also the same as Eastern European Time (EET) during the winter and Central European Summer Time (CEST) during the summer.

As this time zone is predominantly in the equatorial region, there is no significant change in day length throughout the year, so daylight saving time is not observed. The exceptions to this are only to Egypt, which move to Central Africa Summer Time (CAST) or Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) (UTC+03) in the summer months (beginning of July to end of October).

Central Africa Time is used by the following countries:

• Burundi
• Botswana
• Egypt
• DR Congo (eastern)
• Libya
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Rwanda
• South Africa
• Swaziland
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe