What is WAT in AEST?
Australian Eastern Time is 9 hours ahead
West Africa Time is on UTC+1:00 and Australian Eastern Time is on UTC+10:00 right now. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Lagos
- 1:52:57 PM
- Time in Sydney
- 10:52:57 PM
- Difference
- +9 h
- Next clock change
- October 4, 2026
Convert a time
AEST — Australian Eastern Time
10:00 pm
AEST, Fri
When the difference changes
West Africa Time and Australian Eastern 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 – October 3, 2026Australian Eastern Time is 9 hours ahead
- October 3, 2026 – April 3, 2027Australian Eastern Time is 10 hours ahead
- April 3, 2027 – October 2, 2027Australian Eastern Time is 9 hours ahead
- October 2, 2027 – onwardsAustralian Eastern Time is 10 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
West Africa Time
West Africa Time stays on WAT all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
Australian Eastern Time
Clocks go forward one hour — 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time, and the zone is on AEDT after that.
WAT to AEST conversion table
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026, converted from West Africa Time to Australian Eastern Time. 9 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Sydney, which is marked.
- 12:00 am WAT
- 9:00 am AEST
- 1:00 am WAT
- 10:00 am AEST
- 2:00 am WAT
- 11:00 am AEST
- 3:00 am WAT
- 12:00 pm AEST
- 4:00 am WAT
- 1:00 pm AEST
- 5:00 am WAT
- 2:00 pm AEST
- 6:00 am WAT
- 3:00 pm AEST
- 7:00 am WAT
- 4:00 pm AEST
- 8:00 am WAT
- 5:00 pm AEST
- 9:00 am WAT
- 6:00 pm AEST
- 10:00 am WAT
- 7:00 pm AEST
- 11:00 am WAT
- 8:00 pm AEST
- 12:00 pm WAT
- 9:00 pm AEST
- 1:00 pm WAT
- 10:00 pm AEST
- 2:00 pm WAT
- 11:00 pm AEST
- 3:00 pm WAT
- 12:00 am AEST+1 day
- 4:00 pm WAT
- 1:00 am AEST+1 day
- 5:00 pm WAT
- 2:00 am AEST+1 day
- 6:00 pm WAT
- 3:00 am AEST+1 day
- 7:00 pm WAT
- 4:00 am AEST+1 day
- 8:00 pm WAT
- 5:00 am AEST+1 day
- 9:00 pm WAT
- 6:00 am AEST+1 day
- 10:00 pm WAT
- 7:00 am AEST+1 day
- 11:00 pm WAT
- 8:00 am AEST+1 day
Scheduling between the two
There is no overlap between a nine-to-six working day in Lagos and one in Sydney — the gap is too wide. A call has to sit early or late for one side. Early morning in Lagos is the usual compromise, since that is late afternoon or evening in Sydney.
West Africa Time (WAT) is used in Nigeria, Algeria, Angola and Cameroon
Australian Eastern Time (AEST) is used in Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane. Queensland stays on AEST all year while the southern states move to AEDT.
Other conversions
- AEST to WAT
- WAT to UTC
- WAT to GMT
- WAT to EST
- WAT to CST
- WAT to MST
- WAT to PST
- WAT to AKST
- WAT to HST
- WAT to BST
- WAT to CET
- WAT to IST
- WAT to CST (China)
- WAT to JST
- WAT to AST
- WAT to Mexico City
- WAT to BRT
- WAT to ART
- WAT to EET
- WAT to WET
- WAT to MSK
- WAT to TRT
- WAT to SAST
- WAT to EAT
- WAT to GST
- WAT to PKT
- WAT to ICT
- WAT to WIB
- WAT to SGT
- WAT to HKT
- WAT to KST
- WAT to PHT
- WAT to AWST
- WAT to ACST
- WAT to NZST
- All zones