| 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 |
Garoua, 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 Garoua 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 Garoua lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Garoua 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 Garoua lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Garoua 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 Garoua 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 Garoua.
Garoua (Cameroon) is home to roughly 440K people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:54, sunset at 17:57. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 9° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Cameroon
Capital
Yaoundé
Continent
Africa
Time Zone
UTC+1 · Africa/Douala
Coordinates
9.30°N, 13.40°E
Currency
XAF (FCFA)
Calling Code
+237
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
French, English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Garoua sits on the Bénoué, which in the rainy season becomes navigable to the Niger and the sea — for a few months a year it is a genuine inland port, and the rest of the time the river is too shallow for boats.
The clock: Garoua keeps UTC+1. The national parks nearby hold some of the last Central African populations of giraffe and lion.
Garoua lies at 13.4°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 1.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 6 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:06 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 40m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 35m. The swing between them is 1h 5m. 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 Garoua the sun comes up earliest on 29 May at 05:45, while the latest sunset waits until 15 July at 18:31. 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 Garoua 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 Garoua, Cameroon is Africa/Douala with a current UTC offset of UTC+1.
Garoua has an estimated population of 440K and is located at coordinates 9.30°N, 13.40°E.
Garoua gets 12h 40m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 35m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Garoua falls at about 12:06 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 1.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A River Port That Works Only in the Rainy Season: Garoua sits on the Bénoué, which in the rainy season becomes navigable to the Niger and the sea — for a few months a year it is a genuine inland port, and the rest of the time the river is too shallow for boats.