Convert AWST to WAT

WAT is 7 hours behind AWST. AWST is UTC+8 and WAT is UTC+1.

Best time to schedule a meeting

Standard 9–5 working hours overlap for 1 hour: 4:00 PM–5:00 PM AWST (9:00 AM–10:00 AM WAT). Schedule meetings inside that window.

AWST to WAT conversion table

About AWST

Australian Western Standard Time (AWST) is UTC+8. It is used in Perth and Western Australia.

Australian Western Standard Time is UTC+8 and Western Australia does not observe daylight saving — it has rejected it in four referendums, most recently in 2009. Perth therefore keeps the same offset all year while Sydney moves, so the gap between Australia's two largest business centres is two hours in winter and three in summer.

About WAT

West Africa Time (WAT) is UTC+1. It is used in Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola and much of central and western Africa.

West Africa Time is UTC+1 all year, with no daylight saving anywhere that uses it. It covers Lagos, Kinshasa and Luanda — a very large population on a single fixed offset. It matches Central European Time in winter and falls an hour behind it in summer, which means a standing Europe–Nigeria meeting moves twice a year at the European end and never at the African one.

Does this gap change with the seasons?

Neither AWST nor WAT shifts with the seasons, so this 7-hour difference holds all year. That is unusual enough to be worth relying on: most cross-continental gaps move twice a year.

This is the reason scheduling systems store an IANA zone such as Region/City rather than an offset or an abbreviation: the zone knows its own rules and the offset does not.

Frequently asked questions

Other AWST conversions

• AWST to UTC
• AWST to GMT
• AWST to EST
• AWST to EDT
• AWST to CST
• AWST to CDT
• AWST to MST
• AWST to MDT
• AWST to PST
• AWST to PDT
• AWST to AKST
• AWST to HST
• AWST to BRT
• AWST to BST
• AWST to CET
• AWST to CEST

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