Cameroon · WAT
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Yaoundé, Cameroon runs on UTC+1. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+1 — daylight saving time is not observed. There is a 5-hour difference between Yaoundé and New York. 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 Yaoundé lines up with 09:00–13:00 in New York. Yaoundé 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 Yaoundé lines up with 09:00–18:00 in London. There is a 8-hour difference between Yaoundé and Tokyo. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–10:00 in Yaoundé lines up with 17:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Lisbon, Lagos, Casablanca. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Yaoundé.
Practical Info
Yaoundé (Cameroon) is home to roughly 2.8M people. Today brings about 12.3 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:06, sunset at 18:24. 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
WAT · Africa/Douala
Coordinates
3.85°N, 11.50°E
Currency
XAF (FCFA)
Calling Code
+237
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
French, English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Yaoundé sits at about 750 metres across a series of hills, which makes it noticeably cooler than Douala on the coast. Cameroon is often called Africa in miniature for holding desert, rainforest, savanna and mountains in one country.
The clock: Yaoundé keeps UTC+1. Mount Cameroon, an active volcano to the west, rises to 4,040 metres and hosts an annual race to the summit and back.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
7h overlap