What is GMT in WAT?
West Africa Time is 1 hour ahead
Greenwich Mean Time is on UTC+0:00 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 Greenwich
- 2:56 am
- Time in Lagos
- 3:56 am
- Difference
- +1 h
- Next clock change
- Neither zone
Convert a time
WAT — West Africa Time
3:00 am
Wed
Daylight saving
Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time stays on GMT 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.
GMT to WAT conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from Greenwich Mean Time to West Africa Time. 1 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Lagos, which is marked.
- 12:00 am GMT
- 1:00 am WAT
- 1:00 am GMT
- 2:00 am WAT
- 2:00 am GMT
- 3:00 am WAT
- 3:00 am GMT
- 4:00 am WAT
- 4:00 am GMT
- 5:00 am WAT
- 5:00 am GMT
- 6:00 am WAT
- 6:00 am GMT
- 7:00 am WAT
- 7:00 am GMT
- 8:00 am WAT
- 8:00 am GMT
- 9:00 am WAT
- 9:00 am GMT
- 10:00 am WAT
- 10:00 am GMT
- 11:00 am WAT
- 11:00 am GMT
- 12:00 pm WAT
- 12:00 pm GMT
- 1:00 pm WAT
- 1:00 pm GMT
- 2:00 pm WAT
- 2:00 pm GMT
- 3:00 pm WAT
- 3:00 pm GMT
- 4:00 pm WAT
- 4:00 pm GMT
- 5:00 pm WAT
- 5:00 pm GMT
- 6:00 pm WAT
- 6:00 pm GMT
- 7:00 pm WAT
- 7:00 pm GMT
- 8:00 pm WAT
- 8:00 pm GMT
- 9:00 pm WAT
- 9:00 pm GMT
- 10:00 pm WAT
- 10:00 pm GMT
- 11:00 pm WAT
- 11:00 pm GMT
- 12:00 am WAT+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm GMT, which is 10:00 am to 6:00 pm WAT. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is used in as a fixed UTC+0 offset. Note that the UK itself leaves GMT every summer — see British Time below.
West Africa Time (WAT) is used in Nigeria, Algeria, Angola and Cameroon