Time zone

UTC+2

48 atlas cities

All these cities share a single clock time despite spanning a wide range of longitudes. Cities such as Cairo, Khartoum, Kyiv, and Beirut lie east enough of the zone's meridian that the sun peaks before clock noon, while Johannesburg, Cape Town, Lusaka, and the Congolese cities lie west of it, so the sun there peaks after clock noon. The result is a shared civil time masking real solar variation across the region.