Local time · Cameroon
What time is it in Cameroon?
10:46:48AM
- UTC offset
- UTC+1:00
- Daylight saving
- Not observed
- Time zones
- One nationwide
- Versus New York
- 6 hours ahead
Cameroon does not change its clocks
Cameroon stays on UTC+1:00 all year. Its offset from UTC never moves, so its relationship to places that do change shifts twice a year instead — which is usually why someone checks. Right now it is 1 hour ahead of UTC, and 6 hours ahead of New York.
Working with Cameroon from the US
Douala is 6 hours ahead of New York and 9 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 3:00 pm in Douala.
To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.
The sun in Douala today
- Sunrise
- 6:07 am
- Sunset
- 6:03 pm
- Day length
- 11 hours 56 minutes
- Solar noon
- 12:05 pm
The day is 11 hours 56 minutes long in Douala, and holding steady — within a minute of yesterday’s. The sun peaks within a few minutes of twelve o’clock, so Cameroon’s offset fits its longitude about as closely as a whole-hour offset can.
Douala is close enough to the equator that the solar year barely happens: the longest day of 2026 is 12 hours 21 minutes and the shortest 11 hours 53 minutes — a swing of 28 minutes across the whole year, against more than nine hours in northern Europe. There is no long summer evening here and no dark afternoon in December; sunset lands at much the same time every day.
Cameroon’s offset has not moved once since 1970 — no daylight saving, and no change of zone.
Other countries
On UTC+1:00 right now, the same clock as Cameroon: