Cameroon time now, live flip clock
Cameroon runs on West Africa Time, WAT, UTC+1, and this site's data shows no clock change in any season. The clock above gives the time in Yaoundé live, seconds included.
Time zone in Cameroon
Yaoundé is where this page's gaps are measured from. Cameroon's Constitution names the city as the seat of the institutions. In this site's data the country has one zone, so Douala keeps Yaoundé's time to the minute.
- WAT, UTC+1
- Not observed
- Douala
How many hours ahead or behind Yaoundé
On 24 October 2026, Paris is 1 hour ahead of Yaoundé.
| City | Difference from Yaoundé |
|---|---|
| Paris | 1 hour ahead |
| London | Same time |
| New York | 5 hours behind |
| Los Angeles | 8 hours behind |
| Johannesburg | 1 hour ahead |
| Nairobi | 2 hours ahead |
| Abidjan | 1 hour behind |
| Dubai | 3 hours ahead |
| Your time zone | Detected after this page loads |
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Douala's entry, old and new
- A link to the zone shared with Nigeria
- Africa/Douala is the name the time zone database gives Cameroon's entry. The database's file of old or merged names lists that entry as a link, not a zone. The link leads to the zone shared with Nigeria. The hours and gaps this page gives for Cameroon are that zone's.
- Mean time at Douala
- 38 min 48 s
- A separate file of the database holds an older record for Douala. It starts the city on local mean time, just under 39 minutes ahead of Universal Time. Before the First World War, that record moves Douala to WAT. A note in the file says Whitman's World Time Differences dates the switch after the war. The database goes with Shanks and Pottenger's International Atlas instead.
Questions about time in Cameroon
What time zone is Cameroon in?
Cameroon keeps one zone for the whole country, WAT, UTC+1. Nigeria, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea show the same time as Cameroon. The Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic match it as well.
Does Cameroon have daylight saving time?
No. In this site's time zone data, Cameroon's clocks stay on WAT, UTC+1 without a seasonal change. Its gap with Paris, London and New York shifts when those cities change their clocks. Johannesburg is 1 hour ahead of Yaoundé in every season, and Nairobi 2 hours ahead of it.
What is the time difference between Cameroon and France?
In the European winter, a clock in Paris reads the same as one in Yaoundé. France then puts its clocks forward for summer time, and Cameroon's stay put. Through the European summer, Paris is one hour ahead of Yaoundé. A noon meeting in Paris then starts at eleven in Yaoundé.
What is the time difference between Cameroon and the US?
In the American winter, Yaoundé is 6 hours ahead of New York. Once New York moves to daylight time, that lead shrinks by an hour. Los Angeles runs 9 hours behind Yaoundé over the same winter months. So a winter call at nine in New York reaches Yaoundé at three in the afternoon.
Time zone names for developers
| IANA zone | Standard time | Daylight saving time |
|---|---|---|
| Africa/Lagos | WAT, UTC+1 | No |
Sources
We checked each fact on this page against these sources on 16 October 2026. Times, offsets and clock changes come from the time zone database.