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