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African time zones:

WAT – West Africa Time

Current time in Lagos

Friday, August 2, 2013 at 8:56:45 PM WAT

Lagos is on WAT all of year 2013

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Time zone offset: UTC + 1 hour

WAT is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

Note that some places observe daylight saving time/summer time during summer, and are therefore using WAST instead in the summer. See below for details.

Time zone abbreviation: WAT

Full name is West Africa Time

Email time zone indicator: +0100

An email sent from someone in the WAT time zone will have the time zone listed as "+0100" in the headers of the email. (However, "+0100" does not have to be in WAT, as other time zones could have the same UTC offset).

For actual dates DST might be observed, look at the examples below

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Where and when is WAT observed?

Countries using WAT in the winter and WAST during the summer

Namibia

WAT is used all year

Angola
Benin
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo Dem. Republic - Western region
Includes Kinshasa
Congo
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Niger
Nigeria

Time zone maps are under development and will be available later

Example locations in WAT

Lagos - This time zone offset is used all year in this location
Windhoek - This time zone offset is used during winter in this location

Other time zones in Africa

Go directly through the links below, or see the Africa time zone list

CAT - Central Africa Time
CET - Central European Time
CVT - Cape Verde Time
EAT - Eastern Africa Time
EEST - Eastern European Summer Time
EET - Eastern European Time
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
MUT - Mauritius Time
RET - Reunion Time
SAST - South Africa Standard Time
SCT - Seychelles Time
WAST - West Africa Summer Time
WEST - Western European Summer Time
WET - Western European Time
WST - Western Sahara Summer Time
WT - Western Sahara Standard Time