Convert WAT to SAST

SAST is 1 hour ahead of WAT. WAT is UTC+1 and SAST is UTC+2.

Best time to schedule a meeting

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

WAT to SAST 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 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.

Does this gap change with the seasons?

Neither WAT nor SAST 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 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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