YaoundéCameroon
Current time in Yaoundé, Cameroon
Thursday, 24 September 2026
West Africa TimeUTC+01:00
⛶ Full-screen clockYaoundé time at a glance
- Country
- Cameroon
- Location
- Capital city of Cameroon
- Time zone
Africa/Douala- UTC offset now
UTC+01:00- Current zone label
- GMT+1
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Yaoundé time guide
Does Yaoundé change its clocks?
UTC+01:00.- Year-round offset
- West Africa Time (WAT), UTC+01:00
- Time-zone identifier
- Africa/Douala
- Yaoundé and London
- 1 hour ahead during GMT; the same clock time during BST
- Yaoundé and New York
- 6 hours ahead of EST; 5 hours ahead of EDT
City and Centre Region
The regional total is not Yaoundé’s city population
Cameroon’s statistical yearbook describes the Centre Region as ten departments, 70 arrondissements or communes and the Yaoundé urban community. Its regional population estimate therefore covers a much wider area than the capital city.
Time-zone identity for Yaoundé
- IANA zone
Africa/Douala- UTC offset now
- UTC+01:00
- Current zone label
- GMT+1
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Yaoundé is currently 1 hour ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Yaoundé
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Wednesday, 29 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Yaoundé
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Africa/Douala, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the previous 5 years.
Next 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the next 5 years.
Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.
Capital city context
About Yaoundé, capital of Cameroon
Yaoundé is the capital of Cameroon. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Cameroon
- Administrative area
- Centre, Cameroon
- Population
- 1,299,369
- Coordinates
- 3.8667° N, 11.5167° E. The elevation is 726 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Yaoundé
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Yaoundé. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- OkoaCentre, Cameroon16 km northeast
Africa/DoualaSame local time - ObalaCentre, Cameroon33 km north
Africa/DoualaSame local time - MbalmayoCentre, Cameroon39 km south
Africa/DoualaSame local time - MakakCentre, Cameroon64 km southwest
Africa/DoualaSame local time - MbandjokCentre, Cameroon78 km northeast
Africa/DoualaSame local time - AkonolingaCentre, Cameroon82 km east
Africa/DoualaSame local time
Sources for Yaoundé time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 4 sources
- GeoNames cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.
- 2024 Statistical Yearbook of the Centre RegionNational Institute of Statistics of Cameroon · Published 2024 · AccessedOfficial administrative structure and regional statistics covering Yaoundé.