West Africa Time

Time in Africa
    UTC−01:00 Cape Verde Time
    UTC±00:00 Greenwich Mean Time
    UTC±00:00
UTC+01:00		 Western European Time
Western European Summer Time
    UTC+01:00 West Africa Time /
Central European Time
    UTC+01:00
UTC+02:00		 West Africa Time
West Africa Summer Time
    UTC+02:00 Central Africa Time /
South African Standard Time /
Eastern European Time
    UTC+03:00 East Africa Time
    UTC+04:00 Mauritius Time / Seychelles Time
Light colors indicate where standard time is observed all year; dark colors indicate where daylight savings is observed.

Note: The islands of Cape Verde are to the west of the African mainland.

West Africa Time, or WAT, is a time zone used in west-central Africa (though not in countries west of Benin, which instead use UTC). The zone is one hour ahead of UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) (UTC+01), which makes it the same as Central European Time (CET) during winter and Western European Summer Time (WEST) or British Summer Time (BST) during the summer. It does not include most of the countries that make up the West Africa region (these use UTC instead).

As most of this time zone is in the equatorial region there is no significant change in day length throughout the year, so daylight saving time is not observed. The exception to this is only Namibia, which moves to West Africa Summer Time (WAST) (UTC+02) in the summer months (beginning of September to beginning of April in Namibia) so in summer shares the same time as Botswana and South Africa.

West Africa Time is used by the following countries:

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