Convert WAT to UTC
UTC is 1 hour behind WAT. WAT is UTC+1 and UTC is UTC+0.
Right now: WAT · UTC
Best time to schedule a meeting
Standard 9–5 working hours overlap for 7 hours: 10:00 AM–5:00 PM WAT (9:00 AM–4:00 PM UTC). Schedule meetings inside that window.
| WAT | UTC | Suitable? |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | 8:00 AM | outside 9–5 |
| 10:00 AM | 9:00 AM | working hours |
| 11:00 AM | 10:00 AM | working hours |
| 12:00 PM | 11:00 AM | working hours |
| 1:00 PM | 12:00 PM | working hours |
| 2:00 PM | 1:00 PM | working hours |
| 3:00 PM | 2:00 PM | working hours |
| 4:00 PM | 3:00 PM | working hours |
| 5:00 PM | 4:00 PM | working hours |
WAT to UTC conversion table
| WAT | UTC |
|---|---|
| 12:00 AM | 11:00 PM (previous day) |
| 1:00 AM | 12:00 AM |
| 2:00 AM | 1:00 AM |
| 3:00 AM | 2:00 AM |
| 4:00 AM | 3:00 AM |
| 5:00 AM | 4:00 AM |
| 6:00 AM | 5:00 AM |
| 7:00 AM | 6:00 AM |
| 8:00 AM | 7:00 AM |
| 9:00 AM | 8:00 AM |
| 10:00 AM | 9:00 AM |
| 11:00 AM | 10:00 AM |
| 12:00 PM | 11:00 AM |
| 1:00 PM | 12:00 PM |
| 2:00 PM | 1:00 PM |
| 3:00 PM | 2:00 PM |
| 4:00 PM | 3:00 PM |
| 5:00 PM | 4:00 PM |
| 6:00 PM | 5:00 PM |
| 7:00 PM | 6:00 PM |
| 8:00 PM | 7:00 PM |
| 9:00 PM | 8:00 PM |
| 10:00 PM | 9:00 PM |
| 11:00 PM | 10:00 PM |
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 UTC
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is UTC+0. It is used in the global time standard, used by aviation, computing and science.
UTC is not a time zone. It is the reference all the others are defined against, and no country runs its civil clocks on it — the places at UTC+0 are on GMT or WET, which are separate things that happen to agree in winter. It never changes for daylight saving, which is exactly why servers, aviation, and every log file you will ever read are timestamped in it. The one irregularity is the leap second, inserted to keep UTC within a second of the Earth's rotation; the practice is due to be abandoned by 2035.
Does this gap change with the seasons?
Neither WAT nor UTC 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
What time is 9:00 AM WAT in UTC?
9:00 AM WAT is 8:00 AM UTC.
Is UTC ahead of WAT?
UTC is 1 hour behind WAT.
Which time zone does this use?
WAT is UTC+1 and UTC is UTC+0. Both abbreviations denote a single fixed offset, so this conversion never shifts with daylight saving — what changes is which abbreviation a place is using at the time.