Time zones in Africa & Middle East
7 distinct UTC offsets are in force across Africa & Middle East right now, spread over 69 IANA zones and 705 cities we track. Offsets shown are today’s: where a zone observes daylight saving, it moves.
Offsets in force today
1 zone
Cape Verde
12 zones
Abidjan · Dakar · Accra
15 zones
Lagos · Kinshasa · Casablanca · Luanda · Algiers · Rabat · Tunis · Abuja
15 zones
Cape Town · Durban · Johannesburg · Khartoum · Harare · Lusaka · Maputo · Tripoli · Kigali · Windhoek
21 zones
Cairo · Baghdad · Riyadh · Jeddah · Addis Ababa · Nairobi · Dar es Salaam · Beirut · Antananarivo · Kampala
1 zone
Tehran
4 zones
Dubai · Muscat · Abu Dhabi · Port Louis
Major cities in Africa & Middle East
Daylight saving in Africa & Middle East
Clocks change in 7 of this region’s zones. In 2026 the first change is Friday 24 April and the last is Thursday 29 October. Every date we track is on the daylight saving dates page.
Zones here that never change clocks
- Lagos
- Kinshasa
- Baghdad
- Tehran
- Riyadh
- Abidjan
- Johannesburg
- Dubai
- Luanda
- Addis Ababa