WAT to IST

About West Africa Time

West Africa Time is a fixed UTC+1, covering Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola and their neighbours. It shares its offset with Central European standard time for five months of the year and sits an hour behind it for the other seven, without moving.

Cities on this clock: Lagos, Kinshasa, Algiers, Tunis.

About India Standard Time

India keeps one clock, UTC+5:30, across a country spanning about 29 degrees of longitude — the sun rises nearly two hours earlier in Arunachal Pradesh than in Gujarat on the same clock. The half-hour offset means most conversions from India land on the half hour rather than the hour. Sri Lanka keeps the same time.

Cities on this clock: Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune, Ahmedabad.

Watch out: IST is also Israel Standard Time (UTC+2) and Irish Standard Time (UTC+1). This page is the Indian one.

How the difference is worked out

Neither West Africa Time nor India Standard Time moves its clock relative to the other, so india standard time is 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of west africa time is a rule rather than a fact about one particular year. The hour-by-hour table above holds on every date.

With both zones on their own standard time — daylight saving not in force anywhere — India Standard Time is 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of West Africa Time. That figure never changes; everything else on this page follows from it plus whichever clocks have moved.

Every figure here comes from the IANA time zone database via your browser's own Intl engine, using the zone ids Africa/Lagos and Asia/Kolkata. Nothing is looked up on a server and nothing about your visit is recorded.