Time in South Sudan

Time in South Sudan is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central Africa Time (CAT; UTC+02:00).^[1][2] South Sudan has observed CAT since 1 February 2021.^[3] The country does not have an associated daylight saving time.^[2]

Time in South Sudan
Time zone	Central Africa Time
Initials	CAT
UTC offset	UTC+02:00
Adopted	1 February 2021
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Juba

History

See also: Time in Sudan § History

Upon the independence of South Sudan from Sudan on 9 July 2011, it observed East Africa Time (EAT; UTC+03:00).^[4] On 1 February 2021, South Sudan moved its time back one hour to the UTC offset +02:00, adopting Central Africa Time.^[3]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, South Sudan is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Juba. "SS" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for South Sudan 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
SS	+0451+03137	Africa/Juba		+02:00	+02:00

See also

• Time in Sudan
• List of time zones by country
• List of UTC time offsets