| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | ±0h | Becomes −1h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | +1h | Becomes ±0h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +3h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +8h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +9h | Becomes +10h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −5h | Becomes −6h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −8h | Becomes −9h on 1 Nov |
Douala, Cameroon runs on UTC+1. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Douala and New York is 5 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 14:00–18:00 in Douala lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Douala and London currently share the same clock. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 9 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–18:00 in Douala lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Douala and Tokyo is 8 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hour a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–10:00 in Douala lines up with 17:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Lagos, Kinshasa, Algiers. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Douala.
Douala (Cameroon) is home to roughly 2.8M people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:08, sunset at 18:13. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 4° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Cameroon
Capital
Yaoundé
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+1 · Africa/Douala
Coordinates
4.05°N, 9.77°E
Currency
XAF (FCFA)
Calling Code
+237
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
French, English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Douala handles the overwhelming majority of Cameroon's trade and serves as the sea outlet for Chad and the Central African Republic too — landlocked countries whose imports arrive here and travel by road for days.
The clock: Douala keeps UTC+1 and is among the wettest large cities in Africa, with over 3,500 mm of rain a year.
Douala lies at 9.8°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 5.2° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 21 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:21 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+1 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 12h 21m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 53m. The swing between them is 28 minutes. Within a few degrees of the equator the length of the day barely moves all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Douala the sun comes up earliest on 25 October at 06:05, while the latest sunset waits until 21 July at 18:37. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Douala that civil twilight runs about 21 minutes at the equinox.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Douala, Cameroon is Africa/Douala with a current UTC offset of UTC+1.
Douala has an estimated population of 2.8M and is located at coordinates 4.05°N, 9.77°E.
Douala gets 12h 21m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 53m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Douala falls at about 12:21 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 5.2° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Central Africa's Busiest Port: Douala handles the overwhelming majority of Cameroon's trade and serves as the sea outlet for Chad and the Central African Republic too — landlocked countries whose imports arrive here and travel by road for days.