What is WAT in PST?
Pacific Time is 8 hours behind
West Africa Time is on UTC+1:00 and Pacific Time is on UTC−7:00 right now. Pacific Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read PDT. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Lagos
- 3:14 am
- Time in Los Angeles
- 7:14 pm
- Difference
- −8 h
- Next clock change
- November 1, 2026
Convert a time
PDT — Pacific Time
7:00 pm
Tue, the previous day
When the difference changes
West Africa Time and Pacific 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, 2026Pacific Time is 8 hours behind
- November 1, 2026 – March 14, 2027Pacific Time is 9 hours behind
- March 14, 2027 – onwardsPacific Time is 8 hours behind
Periods shorter than a day are not listed: both zones change at 2am in their own local time, so there are a few hours on each transition date 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.
Pacific Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming PST.
WAT to PST conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from West Africa Time to Pacific Time. 8 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Los Angeles, which is marked.
- 12:00 am WAT
- 4:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 1:00 am WAT
- 5:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 2:00 am WAT
- 6:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 3:00 am WAT
- 7:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 4:00 am WAT
- 8:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 5:00 am WAT
- 9:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 6:00 am WAT
- 10:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 7:00 am WAT
- 11:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 8:00 am WAT
- 12:00 am PDT
- 9:00 am WAT
- 1:00 am PDT
- 10:00 am WAT
- 2:00 am PDT
- 11:00 am WAT
- 3:00 am PDT
- 12:00 pm WAT
- 4:00 am PDT
- 1:00 pm WAT
- 5:00 am PDT
- 2:00 pm WAT
- 6:00 am PDT
- 3:00 pm WAT
- 7:00 am PDT
- 4:00 pm WAT
- 8:00 am PDT
- 5:00 pm WAT
- 9:00 am PDT
- 6:00 pm WAT
- 10:00 am PDT
- 7:00 pm WAT
- 11:00 am PDT
- 8:00 pm WAT
- 12:00 pm PDT
- 9:00 pm WAT
- 1:00 pm PDT
- 10:00 pm WAT
- 2:00 pm PDT
- 11:00 pm WAT
- 3:00 pm PDT
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm WAT, which is 9:00 am to 10:00 am PDT. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
West Africa Time (WAT) is used in Nigeria, Algeria, Angola and Cameroon
Pacific Time (PDT) is used in San Francisco, Seattle, Las Vegas and Vancouver