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| Light Blue | Cape Verde Time[a] (UTC−1) |
| Blue | Greenwich Mean Time (UTC) |
| Red | (UTC+1) |
| Yellow | (UTC+2) |
| Ochre | (UTC+3) |
| Green | East Africa Time (UTC+3) |
| Turquoise | (UTC+4) |
b Locally known as Egypt Standard Time.
c Mauritius and the Seychelles are to the east and north-east of Madagascar respectively.
East Africa Time (EAT) is a time zone used in eastern and central Africa, with a standard offset of UTC+03:00 from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). It is one of the most widely used time zones in Africa, adopted by countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, and others. EAT does not observe daylight saving time (DST), maintaining a consistent offset year-round due to the region’s equatorial proximity, which results in minimal variation in daylight hours.[1] In the IANA time zone database, EAT is represented by the canonical identifier Africa/Nairobi, with aliases such as Africa/Kampala and Africa/Dar_es_Salaam.[2][3]
The time zone is three hours ahead of UTC (UTC+03:00), which is the same as Moscow Time, Arabia Standard Time, Further-eastern European Time and Eastern European Summer Time.[3]
- ^ "East Africa Time (EAT)". timeanddate.com. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
- ^ "Time Zone in Nairobi, Kenya". Time.is. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
- ^ a b "EAT Time". World Time Zones.Org. Archived from the original on 10 February 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2012.