What is AST in WAT?
West Africa Time is 4 hours ahead
Atlantic Time is on UTC−3:00 and West Africa Time is on UTC+1:00 right now. Atlantic Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read ADT. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Halifax
- 9:03:41 AM
- Time in Lagos
- 1:03:41 PM
- Difference
- +4 h
- Next clock change
- November 1, 2026
Convert a time
WAT — West Africa Time
1:00 pm
WAT, Fri
When the difference changes
Atlantic Time and West Africa Time do not change their clocks on the same dates, so the gap between them is not the same all year. Most converters show only today’s figure. These are the periods ahead:
- Now – November 1, 2026West Africa Time is 4 hours ahead
- November 1, 2026 – March 14, 2027West Africa Time is 5 hours ahead
- March 14, 2027 – onwardsWest Africa Time is 4 hours ahead
Periods shorter than a day are not listed. Each zone changes at its own local time, so on a date when both move there are a few hours when the gap is briefly something else.
Daylight saving
Atlantic Time
Clocks go back one hour — 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time, and the zone is on AST after that.
West Africa Time
West Africa Time stays on WAT all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
AST to WAT conversion table
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026, converted from Atlantic Time to West Africa Time. 4 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Lagos, which is marked.
- 12:00 am ADT
- 4:00 am WAT
- 1:00 am ADT
- 5:00 am WAT
- 2:00 am ADT
- 6:00 am WAT
- 3:00 am ADT
- 7:00 am WAT
- 4:00 am ADT
- 8:00 am WAT
- 5:00 am ADT
- 9:00 am WAT
- 6:00 am ADT
- 10:00 am WAT
- 7:00 am ADT
- 11:00 am WAT
- 8:00 am ADT
- 12:00 pm WAT
- 9:00 am ADT
- 1:00 pm WAT
- 10:00 am ADT
- 2:00 pm WAT
- 11:00 am ADT
- 3:00 pm WAT
- 12:00 pm ADT
- 4:00 pm WAT
- 1:00 pm ADT
- 5:00 pm WAT
- 2:00 pm ADT
- 6:00 pm WAT
- 3:00 pm ADT
- 7:00 pm WAT
- 4:00 pm ADT
- 8:00 pm WAT
- 5:00 pm ADT
- 9:00 pm WAT
- 6:00 pm ADT
- 10:00 pm WAT
- 7:00 pm ADT
- 11:00 pm WAT
- 8:00 pm ADT
- 12:00 am WAT+1 day
- 9:00 pm ADT
- 1:00 am WAT+1 day
- 10:00 pm ADT
- 2:00 am WAT+1 day
- 11:00 pm ADT
- 3:00 am WAT+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm ADT, which is 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm WAT. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
A note on AST: it can also mean Arabia Standard Time (UTC+3). This page means Atlantic Time.
Atlantic Time (ADT) is used in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Puerto Rico
West Africa Time (WAT) is used in Nigeria, Algeria, Angola and Cameroon
Other conversions
- WAT to AST
- AST to UTC
- AST to GMT
- AST to EST
- AST to CST
- AST to MST
- AST to PST
- AST to AKST
- AST to HST
- AST to BST
- AST to CET
- AST to IST
- AST to CST (China)
- AST to JST
- AST to AEST
- AST to Mexico City
- AST to BRT
- AST to ART
- AST to EET
- AST to WET
- AST to MSK
- AST to TRT
- AST to SAST
- AST to EAT
- AST to GST
- AST to PKT
- AST to ICT
- AST to WIB
- AST to SGT
- AST to HKT
- AST to KST
- AST to PHT
- AST to AWST
- AST to ACST
- AST to NZST
- All zones