Convert SAST to WAT

WAT is 1 hour behind SAST. SAST is UTC+2 and WAT is UTC+1.

Best time to schedule a meeting

Standard 9–5 working hours overlap for 7 hours: 10:00 AM–5:00 PM SAST (9:00 AM–4:00 PM WAT). Schedule meetings inside that window.

SAST to WAT conversion table

About SAST

South Africa Standard Time (SAST) is UTC+2. It is used in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini.

South Africa Standard Time is UTC+2 with no daylight saving, unchanged since 1903 apart from two wartime years. The whole country keeps it, and so do Lesotho and Eswatini. Against the UK it is two hours ahead in winter and one in summer, which is the shift that catches London–Johannesburg standing calls every March and October.

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 SAST nor WAT shifts with the seasons, so this 1-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 SAST conversions

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

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