Convert EAT to WAT

WAT is 2 hours behind EAT. EAT is UTC+3 and WAT is UTC+1.

Best time to schedule a meeting

Standard 9–5 working hours overlap for 6 hours: 11:00 AM–5:00 PM EAT (9:00 AM–3:00 PM WAT). Schedule meetings inside that window.

EAT to WAT conversion table

About EAT

East Africa Time (EAT) is UTC+3. It is used in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda and Somalia.

East Africa Time is UTC+3 and fixed. Nairobi, Addis Ababa and Dar es Salaam all keep it. Ethiopia additionally uses a clock that counts from dawn rather than midnight for everyday purposes, six hours off the international one, so a time given locally in Addis may need converting twice rather than once.

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 EAT nor WAT shifts with the seasons, so this 2-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 EAT conversions

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

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