WAT to AKDT: WAT is 9 hours ahead of AKDT
West Africa Time is 9 hours ahead of Alaska Time right now. It is 12:55 am WAT in West Africa and 3:55 pm AKDT in Alaska, which is already the previous day there.
Convert a specific time from WAT to AKDT
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 WAT and AKDT?
Alaska Time is 9 hours behind West Africa Time. To go from WAT to AKDT you subtract 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.
WAT to AKDT conversion table
Every hour of Sunday, September 27, 2026 in West Africa, with the matching reading in Alaska. 9 of the 24 hours land on a different calendar date in Alaska, which is the part people get wrong when they schedule across this pair.
| WAT | WAT 24h | AKDT | AKDT 24h | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 00:00 | 3:00 pm | 15:00 | the previous day |
| 1:00 am | 01:00 | 4:00 pm | 16:00 | the previous day |
| 2:00 am | 02:00 | 5:00 pm | 17:00 | the previous day |
| 3:00 am | 03:00 | 6:00 pm | 18:00 | the previous day |
| 4:00 am | 04:00 | 7:00 pm | 19:00 | the previous day |
| 5:00 am | 05:00 | 8:00 pm | 20:00 | the previous day |
| 6:00 am | 06:00 | 9:00 pm | 21:00 | the previous day |
| 7:00 am | 07:00 | 10:00 pm | 22:00 | the previous day |
| 8:00 am | 08:00 | 11:00 pm | 23:00 | the previous day |
| 9:00 am | 09:00 | 12:00 am | 00:00 | same day |
| 10:00 am | 10:00 | 1:00 am | 01:00 | same day |
| 11:00 am | 11:00 | 2:00 am | 02:00 | same day |
| 12:00 pm | 12:00 | 3:00 am | 03:00 | same day |
| 1:00 pm | 13:00 | 4:00 am | 04:00 | same day |
| 2:00 pm | 14:00 | 5:00 am | 05:00 | same day |
| 3:00 pm | 15:00 | 6:00 am | 06:00 | same day |
| 4:00 pm | 16:00 | 7:00 am | 07:00 | same day |
| 5:00 pm | 17:00 | 8:00 am | 08:00 | same day |
| 6:00 pm | 18:00 | 9:00 am | 09:00 | same day |
| 7:00 pm | 19:00 | 10:00 am | 10:00 | same day |
| 8:00 pm | 20:00 | 11:00 am | 11:00 | same day |
| 9:00 pm | 21:00 | 12:00 pm | 12:00 | same day |
| 10:00 pm | 22:00 | 1:00 pm | 13:00 | same day |
| 11:00 pm | 23:00 | 2:00 pm | 14:00 | same day |
What are the best hours to schedule a call between WAT and AKDT?
No hour of the standard 9:00 am to 5:00 pm working day falls inside working hours on both sides. West Africa and Alaska 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.
| WAT | AKDT | Working hours | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00 pm | 7:00 am | WAT only | afternoon in West Africa, early morning in Alaska |
| 5:00 pm | 8:00 am | neither side | evening in West Africa, mid morning in Alaska |
| 6:00 pm | 9:00 am | AKDT only | evening in West Africa, mid morning in Alaska |
Does daylight saving change WAT to AKDT?
West Africa Time does not move its clocks at all, so its UTC+1 offset holds every day of the year.
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.
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 WAT ahead of or behind AKDT?
WAT is ahead of AKDT by 9 hours: when it is 12:00 pm in West Africa, it is 3:00 am in Alaska. 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 "wat to akst" they nearly always mean the zone rather than the literal winter offset, so this page resolves WAT to Africa/Lagos and AKST to America/Anchorage and applies whichever offset is genuinely in force on the day.
West Africa Time covers Lagos, Kinshasa, Luanda and Douala, the most populous zone in Africa. Alaska Time covers Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks. The identifiers behind them are Africa/Lagos and America/Anchorage, which is what any calendar or scheduling system should be storing rather than a fixed number of hours.
Questions
- What is WAT in AKDT?
- WAT is 9 hours ahead of AKDT. 9:00 am WAT is 12:00 am AKDT.
- How many hours ahead is AKDT of WAT?
- AKDT is 9 hours behind WAT. That varies across the year, between 9 hours and 10 hours.
- What time is it in Alaska right now?
- 3:55 pm AKDT on Saturday, September 26, 2026.
- When can West Africa and Alaska meet during working hours?
- There is no shared working hour. The closest fit is 4:00 pm WAT, which is 7:00 am AKDT.
- Does this account for daylight saving?
- Yes. Every reading is computed from the IANA database for the actual date, so WAT and AKDT are the abbreviations genuinely in force today rather than a fixed assumption.
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