What is CST (China) in WAT?
West Africa Time is 7 hours behind
China Standard Time is on UTC+8:00 and West Africa Time is on UTC+1:00 right now. That gap holds all year, because both zones change their clocks together.
- Time in Beijing
- 8:53:34 PM
- Time in Lagos
- 1:53:34 PM
- Difference
- −7 h
- Next clock change
- Neither zone
Convert a time
WAT — West Africa Time
1:00 pm
WAT, Fri
Daylight saving
China Standard Time
China Standard Time stays on CST all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
West Africa Time
West Africa Time stays on WAT all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
CST (China) to WAT conversion table
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026, converted from China Standard Time to West Africa Time. 7 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Lagos, which is marked.
- 12:00 am CST
- 5:00 pm WAT−1 day
- 1:00 am CST
- 6:00 pm WAT−1 day
- 2:00 am CST
- 7:00 pm WAT−1 day
- 3:00 am CST
- 8:00 pm WAT−1 day
- 4:00 am CST
- 9:00 pm WAT−1 day
- 5:00 am CST
- 10:00 pm WAT−1 day
- 6:00 am CST
- 11:00 pm WAT−1 day
- 7:00 am CST
- 12:00 am WAT
- 8:00 am CST
- 1:00 am WAT
- 9:00 am CST
- 2:00 am WAT
- 10:00 am CST
- 3:00 am WAT
- 11:00 am CST
- 4:00 am WAT
- 12:00 pm CST
- 5:00 am WAT
- 1:00 pm CST
- 6:00 am WAT
- 2:00 pm CST
- 7:00 am WAT
- 3:00 pm CST
- 8:00 am WAT
- 4:00 pm CST
- 9:00 am WAT
- 5:00 pm CST
- 10:00 am WAT
- 6:00 pm CST
- 11:00 am WAT
- 7:00 pm CST
- 12:00 pm WAT
- 8:00 pm CST
- 1:00 pm WAT
- 9:00 pm CST
- 2:00 pm WAT
- 10:00 pm CST
- 3:00 pm WAT
- 11:00 pm CST
- 4:00 pm WAT
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm CST, which is 9:00 am to 11:00 am WAT. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
A note on CST (China): it can also mean the abbreviation CST is shared with US Central Time and Cuba Standard Time.
China Standard Time (CST) is used in the whole of China, which runs on one offset from Kashgar to Shanghai
West Africa Time (WAT) is used in Nigeria, Algeria, Angola and Cameroon
Other conversions
- WAT to CST (China)
- CST (China) to UTC
- CST (China) to GMT
- CST (China) to EST
- CST (China) to CST
- CST (China) to MST
- CST (China) to PST
- CST (China) to AKST
- CST (China) to HST
- CST (China) to BST
- CST (China) to CET
- CST (China) to IST
- CST (China) to JST
- CST (China) to AEST
- CST (China) to AST
- CST (China) to Mexico City
- CST (China) to BRT
- CST (China) to ART
- CST (China) to EET
- CST (China) to WET
- CST (China) to MSK
- CST (China) to TRT
- CST (China) to SAST
- CST (China) to EAT
- CST (China) to GST
- CST (China) to PKT
- CST (China) to ICT
- CST (China) to WIB
- CST (China) to SGT
- CST (China) to HKT
- CST (China) to KST
- CST (China) to PHT
- CST (China) to AWST
- CST (China) to ACST
- CST (China) to NZST
- All zones