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GMT to WAT converter

WAT is 1 hours ahead of GMT right now. Live clocks on both sides, a direct time input, the full 24-hour table with a permalink per hour, and the real daylight-saving state — computed from the IANA tz database on every request, never from a stored offset.

Greenwich Mean Time · Etc/GMT
00:26:12
Thursday, 13 August 2026 · GMT · UTC+00:00
West Africa Time · Africa/Lagos
01:26:12
Thursday, 13 August 2026 · WAT · UTC+01:00

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Daylight saving right now

West Africa Time

Africa/Lagos is currently on WAT (UTC+01:00).

no clock change scheduled — this zone is fixed at UTC+01:00

West Africa Time is UTC+1 with no daylight saving, covering Lagos, Kinshasa and Luanda.

Greenwich Mean Time

Etc/GMT is on GMT (UTC+00:00).

no clock change scheduled — fixed at UTC+00:00

GMT is UTC+0 and never shifts. The UK observes GMT in winter only — in summer it is on BST (UTC+1), so "GMT" on a British invite dated in July usually means BST.

Best time to call green = 09:00–18:00 on both sides

8 overlapping working hours. The longest run is 09:00–17:00 GMT, which is 10:00–18:00 WAT.

GMT to WAT, hour by hour 13 August 2026 · every row is a permalink

GMT WAT 12-hour Day Permalink
00:00 01:00 WAT 1:00 AM same day 00:00 →
01:00 02:00 WAT 2:00 AM same day 01:00 →
02:00 03:00 WAT 3:00 AM same day 02:00 →
03:00 04:00 WAT 4:00 AM same day 03:00 →
04:00 05:00 WAT 5:00 AM same day 04:00 →
05:00 06:00 WAT 6:00 AM same day 05:00 →
06:00 07:00 WAT 7:00 AM same day 06:00 →
07:00 08:00 WAT 8:00 AM same day 07:00 →
08:00 09:00 WAT 9:00 AM same day 08:00 →
09:00 10:00 WAT 10:00 AM same day 09:00 →
10:00 11:00 WAT 11:00 AM same day 10:00 →
11:00 12:00 WAT 12:00 PM same day 11:00 →
12:00 13:00 WAT 1:00 PM same day 12:00 →
13:00 14:00 WAT 2:00 PM same day 13:00 →
14:00 15:00 WAT 3:00 PM same day 14:00 →
15:00 16:00 WAT 4:00 PM same day 15:00 →
16:00 17:00 WAT 5:00 PM same day 16:00 →
17:00 18:00 WAT 6:00 PM same day 17:00 →
18:00 19:00 WAT 7:00 PM same day 18:00 →
19:00 20:00 WAT 8:00 PM same day 19:00 →
20:00 21:00 WAT 9:00 PM same day 20:00 →
21:00 22:00 WAT 10:00 PM same day 21:00 →
22:00 23:00 WAT 11:00 PM same day 22:00 →
23:00 00:00 WAT 12:00 AM next day 23:00 →

Every hour as its own page

GMT to WAT — questions

What time is it in WAT when it is GMT now?
WAT is currently 01:26 on Thursday, 13 August 2026 (WAT, UTC+01:00), while GMT is 00:26 (UTC+00:00). That is 1 hours ahead of the source clock right now.
How many hours ahead is WAT of GMT?
1 hours at this moment. The gap is not constant across the year: Greenwich Mean Time and West Africa Time change clocks on different dates (or one of them not at all), so a difference you hard-code in summer can be an hour wrong in winter. The table on this page is computed from the current tzdata rules, not from a fixed offset.
Is WAT on daylight saving time right now?
No. Africa/Lagos is on WAT (UTC+01:00) at the moment.
Does WAT observe daylight saving time?
No. Africa/Lagos stays on UTC+01:00 all year, so the difference from GMT only moves when GMT itself changes.
What is the best time to schedule a call between GMT and WAT?
There are 8 hours of overlap where both sides are inside a 09:00-18:00 working day. The longest block is 09:00–17:00 GMT, which is 10:00–18:00 WAT. Use the calendar buttons above to drop it straight into Google Calendar, Outlook or an .ics file.
Which IANA timezone name should I use for WAT in code?
Use Africa/Lagos. Abbreviations like WAT are ambiguous and not resolvable by most libraries — Python's ZoneInfo, Java's ZoneId, Go's time.LoadLocation and JavaScript's Intl all expect the IANA name. Hard-coding UTC+01:00 instead will be wrong the moment the rules change.

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