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CURRENT LOCAL TIME

Time in Yaoundé, Cameroon

· West Africa Time

WAT · UTC+1—— H FROM YOUAFRICA/DOUALA

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Yaoundé against your time zone

Reading your time zone to compare it with Yaoundé…

Yaoundé compared with your time zone, hour by hour, with the working-hour overlap shaded
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Yaoundé time zone facts

IANA time zoneAfrica/Douala
Offset nowUTC+1 (WAT)
Offset all yearUTC+1 (WAT)
Next clock changeNone — this zone does not change clocks
CountryCameroon (CM)
Population1,299,369
Coordinates3.87, 11.52
Places in this zone15

Best hours to reach Yaoundé

From New York
5 hours behind Yaoundé · their morning
14:00–18:00
09:00–13:00 EDT
From San Francisco
8 hours behind Yaoundé · their morning
17:00–18:00
09:00–10:00 PDT
From Bengaluru
4½ hours ahead of Yaoundé · their afternoon
09:00–14:00
13:00–18:00 IST

Local times in Yaoundé on the left, the caller’s own clock on the right. Computed from the working-hour overlap for today’s offsets.

About time in Yaoundé

Yaoundé keeps West Africa Time, UTC+1 from UTC all year. The offset never changes, so any difference between you and Yaoundé moves only when your own clocks do.

Yaoundé shares the zone Africa/Douala with Douala, Garoua, Kousséri, Bamenda, so a time here is also the time there. One canonical page per zone keeps the difference honest: the settlement name changes, the clock does not.

Offsets and daylight saving rules come from the IANA time zone database — see IANA time zone notes for what that data does and does not promise about future dates.

Yaoundé converted to other zones

Each opens a comparison page with both cities on one timeline.

Cities on the same offset today

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COMMON QUESTIONS

What time is it in Yaoundé right now?

The clock at the top of this page reads the current time in Yaoundé to the second. Yaoundé is on West Africa Time, UTC+1 — the same clock as every other place in the zone Africa/Douala.

Does Yaoundé observe daylight saving time?

No. Yaoundé stays on UTC+1 all year, so the difference between you and Yaoundé only changes when your own clocks do.

What time zone is Yaoundé in?

Yaoundé uses the IANA zone Africa/Douala, currently WAT (UTC+1). Abbreviations are for reading — the zone identifier is the unambiguous name, and it is what you should store in your own systems.

Which other places read the same time as Yaoundé?

Douala, Garoua, Kousséri, Bamenda, Maroua all sit in Africa/Douala, so they read exactly the same clock, daylight saving changes included.