Convert WAT to HKT

HKT is 7 hours ahead of WAT. WAT is UTC+1 and HKT is UTC+8.

Best time to schedule a meeting

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

WAT to HKT conversion table

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.

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.

Does this gap change with the seasons?

Neither WAT nor HKT 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 WAT conversions

• WAT to UTC
• WAT to GMT
• WAT to EST
• WAT to EDT
• WAT to CST
• WAT to CDT
• WAT to MST
• WAT to MDT
• WAT to PST
• WAT to PDT
• WAT to AKST
• WAT to HST
• WAT to BRT
• WAT to CEST
• WAT to EET
• WAT to EEST

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