Time in Cameroon

Time in Cameroon is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as West Africa Time (WAT; UTC+01:00).^[1][2] Cameroon adopted WAT on 1 January 1912 as Cameroun,^[3] and has never observed daylight saving time.^[1]

Time in Cameroon
Time zone	West Africa Time
Initials	WAT
UTC offset	UTC+01:00
Adopted	1 January 1912
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Douala

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Cameroon is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Douala. "CM" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Cameroon directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:^[4]

c.c.*	coordinates*	TZ*	Comments	UTC offset	DST
CM	+0403+00942	Africa/Douala		+01:00	+01:00

See also

• List of time zones by country
• List of UTC time offsets