Cape Verde Time

{{Short description|Cape Verde time zone, UTC minus one hour}}

{{Time zones of Africa}}

Cape Verde Time (CVT) is a time zone used by the Atlantic island nation of Cape Verde.{{Citation |last=Teperek |first=Aneta A. |title=The World’s Smallest Economies in the Background of the World |date=2024 |work=Economic Development in the World's Smallest Economies |pages=7–35 |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-63810-7_2 |access-date=2025-06-11 |chapter= |place=Cham |publisher=Springer Nature Switzerland |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-031-63810-7_2 |isbn=978-3-031-63809-1|url-access=subscription }} The zone is one hour behind UTC (UTC−01:00).{{Citation |title=Cabo Verde |date=2025-06-04 |work=The World Factbook |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/cabo-verde/ |access-date=2025-06-11 |publisher=Central Intelligence Agency |language=en}}

This time zone applies all the year round.{{Cite web |last=Hatfield |first=Laura Silver, Laura Clancy and Jenn |date=2023-10-26 |title=Most countries don’t observe daylight saving time |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/10/26/most-countries-dont-observe-daylight-saving-time/ |access-date=2025-06-11 |website=Pew Research Center |language=en-US}} Due to its geographical location, completely west of the meridian 22°30'W (which forms the boundary between UTC−01:00 and UTC−02:00) Cape Verde effectively observes permanent daylight saving, given that the position of the archipelago is totally within the boundaries of UTC−02:00, the time zone observed until 1975.{{Citation needed|date=June 2025}}