AKDT to WAT: AKDT is 9 hours behind WAT
Alaska Time is 9 hours behind West Africa Time right now. It is 4:41 pm AKDT in Alaska and 1:41 am WAT in West Africa, which is already the next day there.
Convert a specific time from AKDT to WAT
Pick any time and date to convert it both ways. The conversion runs in your browser against the real zone rules, so a date inside a daylight saving period gets that period's offset rather than today's.
What is the time difference between AKDT and WAT?
West Africa Time is 9 hours ahead of Alaska Time. To go from AKDT to WAT you add 9 hours. That gap is not fixed. Across 2026 the distance between these two zones takes 2 different values, from 9 hours to 10 hours, because Alaska moves its clocks and West Africa does not. This page recomputes it rather than assuming.
AKDT to WAT conversion table
Every hour of Saturday, September 26, 2026 in Alaska, with the matching reading in West Africa. 9 of the 24 hours land on a different calendar date in West Africa, which is the part people get wrong when they schedule across this pair.
| AKDT | AKDT 24h | WAT | WAT 24h | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 00:00 | 9:00 am | 09:00 | same day |
| 1:00 am | 01:00 | 10:00 am | 10:00 | same day |
| 2:00 am | 02:00 | 11:00 am | 11:00 | same day |
| 3:00 am | 03:00 | 12:00 pm | 12:00 | same day |
| 4:00 am | 04:00 | 1:00 pm | 13:00 | same day |
| 5:00 am | 05:00 | 2:00 pm | 14:00 | same day |
| 6:00 am | 06:00 | 3:00 pm | 15:00 | same day |
| 7:00 am | 07:00 | 4:00 pm | 16:00 | same day |
| 8:00 am | 08:00 | 5:00 pm | 17:00 | same day |
| 9:00 am | 09:00 | 6:00 pm | 18:00 | same day |
| 10:00 am | 10:00 | 7:00 pm | 19:00 | same day |
| 11:00 am | 11:00 | 8:00 pm | 20:00 | same day |
| 12:00 pm | 12:00 | 9:00 pm | 21:00 | same day |
| 1:00 pm | 13:00 | 10:00 pm | 22:00 | same day |
| 2:00 pm | 14:00 | 11:00 pm | 23:00 | same day |
| 3:00 pm | 15:00 | 12:00 am | 00:00 | the next day |
| 4:00 pm | 16:00 | 1:00 am | 01:00 | the next day |
| 5:00 pm | 17:00 | 2:00 am | 02:00 | the next day |
| 6:00 pm | 18:00 | 3:00 am | 03:00 | the next day |
| 7:00 pm | 19:00 | 4:00 am | 04:00 | the next day |
| 8:00 pm | 20:00 | 5:00 am | 05:00 | the next day |
| 9:00 pm | 21:00 | 6:00 am | 06:00 | the next day |
| 10:00 pm | 22:00 | 7:00 am | 07:00 | the next day |
| 11:00 pm | 23:00 | 8:00 am | 08:00 | the next day |
What are the best hours to schedule a call between AKDT and WAT?
No hour of the standard 9:00 am to 5:00 pm working day falls inside working hours on both sides. Alaska and West Africa are 9 hours apart, which is too far for an overlap, so somebody has to take a call outside their own working day. The least painful options are below, ranked by how close both sides sit to the middle of the afternoon.
| AKDT | WAT | Working hours | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:00 am | 4:00 pm | WAT only | early morning in Alaska, afternoon in West Africa |
| 8:00 am | 5:00 pm | neither side | mid morning in Alaska, evening in West Africa |
| 9:00 am | 6:00 pm | AKDT only | mid morning in Alaska, evening in West Africa |
Does daylight saving change AKDT to WAT?
Alaska Time is currently on AKDT and changes next on Sunday, November 1, 2026, when the clock falls back from 1:59 am to 1:00 am and the offset moves from UTC-8 to UTC-9.
West Africa Time does not move its clocks at all, so its UTC+1 offset holds every day of the year.
Because the two sides do not move together, the answer to this conversion changes during the year. For part of the year the gap is 9 hours and for the rest it is 10 hours. The table above is built for today, not for an average day.
Is AKDT ahead of or behind WAT?
AKDT is behind WAT by 9 hours: when it is 12:00 pm in Alaska, it is 9:00 pm in West Africa. One wrinkle worth knowing: AKST and AKDT are two names for the same zone, not two zones. Alaska Time reads AKST in winter and AKDT in summer. When somebody types "akst to wat" they nearly always mean the zone rather than the literal winter offset, so this page resolves AKST to America/Anchorage and WAT to Africa/Lagos and applies whichever offset is genuinely in force on the day.
Alaska Time covers Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks. West Africa Time covers Lagos, Kinshasa, Luanda and Douala, the most populous zone in Africa. The identifiers behind them are America/Anchorage and Africa/Lagos, which is what any calendar or scheduling system should be storing rather than a fixed number of hours.
Questions
- What is AKDT in WAT?
- AKDT is 9 hours behind WAT. 9:00 am AKDT is 6:00 pm WAT.
- How many hours ahead is WAT of AKDT?
- WAT is 9 hours ahead of AKDT. That varies across the year, between 9 hours and 10 hours.
- What time is it in West Africa right now?
- 1:41 am WAT on Sunday, September 27, 2026.
- When can Alaska and West Africa meet during working hours?
- There is no shared working hour. The closest fit is 7:00 am AKDT, which is 4:00 pm WAT.
- Does this account for daylight saving?
- Yes. Every reading is computed from the IANA database for the actual date, so AKDT and WAT are the abbreviations genuinely in force today rather than a fixed assumption.
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