Convert HKT to WAT

WAT is 7 hours behind HKT. HKT 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 HKT (9:00 AM–10:00 AM WAT). Schedule meetings inside that window.

HKT to WAT conversion table

About HKT

Hong Kong Time (HKT) is UTC+8. It is used in Hong Kong, and matching mainland China and Taiwan.

Hong Kong Time is UTC+8 and has had no daylight saving since 1979. It shares its offset with mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, Manila and Perth, which makes UTC+8 the most economically dense single offset in the world — roughly a fifth of the planet's population runs on it, and a meeting scheduled in it reaches an unusual amount of Asia at 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 HKT 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 HKT conversions

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

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