Current time on the continent Africa

The WorldInfoTravel website provides information about the exact time in 57 countries on the continent Africa

Select the country you are interested in to find out the exact time in this country and city, sunrise and sunset times, as well as basic information about the country

# City Number of cities Time in the capital Timezone Standard/DST times
1 Algeria 31 06:14 (Algiers) UTC+01:00 (cet) -
2 Angola 24 06:14 (Luanda) UTC+01:00 (wat) -
3 Benin 6 06:14 (Cotonou) UTC+01:00 (wat) -
4 Botswana 12 07:14 (Gaborone) UTC+02:00 (cat) -
5 Burkina Faso 20 05:14 (Ouagadougou) UTC+00:00 (gmt) -
6 Burundi 3 07:14 (Bujumbura) UTC+02:00 (cat) -
7 Cameroon 18 06:14 (Yaounde) UTC+01:00 (wat) -
8 Cape Verde 2 04:14 (Praia) UTC-01:00 (unknown) -
9 Central African Republic 19 06:14 (Bangui) UTC+01:00 (wat) -
10 Chad 18 06:14 (N’Djamena) UTC+01:00 (wat) -
11 Comoros 2 08:14 (Moroni) UTC+03:00 (eat) -
12 Congo 11 06:14 (Brazzaville) UTC+01:00 (wat) -
13 Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo 43 06:14 (Kinshasa) UTC+01:00 (wat) -
14 Cote d'Ivoire 24 05:14 (Yamoussoukro) UTC+00:00 (gmt) -
15 Djibouti 3 08:14 (Obock Region) UTC+03:00 (eat) -
16 Egypt 15 07:14 (Cairo) UTC+02:00 (eet) -
17 Equatorial Guinea 2 06:14 (Malabo) UTC+01:00 (wat) -
18 Eritrea 4 08:14 (Asmara) UTC+03:00 (eat) -
19 Ethiopia 32 08:14 (Addis Ababa) UTC+03:00 (eat) -
20 Gabon 24 06:14 (Libreville) UTC+01:00 (wat) -
21 Gambia 1 05:14 (Banjul) UTC+00:00 (gmt) -
22 Ghana 5 05:14 (Accra) UTC+00:00 (gmt) -
23 Guinea 11 05:14 (Conakry) UTC+00:00 (gmt) -
24 Guinea-Bissau 2 05:14 (Bissau) UTC+00:00 (gmt) -
25 Kenya 21 08:14 (Nairobi) UTC+03:00 (eat) -
26 Lesotho 7 07:14 (Maseru) UTC+02:00 (sast) -
27 Liberia 3 05:14 (Monrovia) UTC+00:00 (gmt) -
28 Libya 14 07:14 (Tripoli) UTC+02:00 (cet) -
29 Madagascar 41 08:14 (Antananarivo) UTC+03:00 (eat) -
30 Malawi 8 07:14 (Lilongwe) UTC+02:00 (cat) -
31 Mali 9 05:14 (Sikasso) UTC+00:00 (gmt) -
32 Mauritania 12 05:14 (Nouakchott) UTC+00:00 (gmt) -
33 Mauritius 1 09:14 (Rodrigues) UTC+04:00 (unknown) -
34 Morocco 23 06:14 (Rabat) UTC+01:00 (unknown) Sunday, 11 Apr. 2021,
Sunday, 16 May. 2021
35 Mozambique 17 07:14 (Maputo) UTC+02:00 (cat) -
36 Namibia 17 07:14 (Windhoek) UTC+02:00 (cat) -
37 Niger 5 06:14 (Niamey) UTC+01:00 (wat) -
38 Nigeria 25 06:14 (Abuja) UTC+01:00 (wat) -
39 Rwanda 3 07:14 (Kigali) UTC+02:00 (cat) -
40 Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha 2 05:14 (Jamestown) UTC+00:00 (gmt) -
41 Sao Tome and Principe 2 05:14 (Sao Tome) UTC+00:00 (gmt) -
42 Senegal 10 05:14 (Dakar) UTC+00:00 (gmt) -
43 Seychelles 1 09:14 (Inner Islands) UTC+04:00 (unknown) -
44 Sierra Leone 6 05:14 (Freetown) UTC+00:00 (gmt) -
45 Somalia 15 08:14 (Mogadishu) UTC+03:00 (eat) -
46 South Africa 56 07:14 (Pretoria) UTC+02:00 (sast) -
47 South Sudan 4 07:14 (Juba) UTC+02:00 (cat) Sunday, 31 Jan. 2021,
Thursday, 16 Oct. 2025
48 Sudan 13 07:14 (Khartoum) UTC+02:00 (cat) -
49 Swaziland 1 07:14 (Manzini) UTC+02:00 (sast) -
50 Tanzania, United Republic of Tanzania 24 08:14 (Dodoma) UTC+03:00 (eat) -
51 Togo 2 05:14 (Lome) UTC+00:00 (gmt) -
52 Tunisia 7 06:14 (Tunis) UTC+01:00 (cet) -
53 Uganda 10 08:14 (Gulu) UTC+03:00 (eat) -
54 Western Sahara 1 06:14 (Laayoune) UTC+01:00 (unknown) Sunday, 11 Apr. 2021,
Sunday, 16 May. 2021
55 Zambia 18 07:14 (Lusaka) UTC+02:00 (cat) -
56 Zimbabwe 10 07:14 (Harare) UTC+02:00 (cat) -

The continent of Africa

Africa is the second-largest continent after Eurasia(Europe + Asia).

  • For the time being, the population of accounts for 1.216 billion people. It is about 16% of the total Earth’s population;
  • Africa uses time zones: UTC-1UTCUTC+1UTC+2UTC+3UTC+4;
  • Africa’s total area is 30,221,532 sq km;
  • Africa consists of countries, including such large countries as Algeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Libya.
  • In addition to Africa, there are also 6 continents in the world: AntarcticaAsiaEuropeNorth AmericaAustraliaSouth America.

Africa is known to be the hottest continent in the world, and the larger part of its land is occupied by deserts. The greatest desert of the planet – the Sahara – is located in the north of the continent. There is the Kalahari Desert in the south.

The continent of Africa is also famous for the world’s richest diamond fields (South Africa and Zimbabwe), and for the gold deposits (South Africa, Ghana, Mali, Republic of the Congo). Africa is rich in oil reserves as well (Nigeria and Algeria).