IANA tz database · zone identifier

Africa/Malabo

The IANA tz database identifier for West Africa Standard Time in Equatorial Guinea. Store this string — not the abbreviation, not the offset — and your timestamps stay correct forever.

UTC+01:00Abbreviation WATNo DST — never observed
Time in Africa/Malabo☾ Night
00:00:12
Thursday, July 16, 2026
Offset
UTC+01:00
Abbreviation
WAT
DST
No DST

Current offset

UTC+01:00

same year-round

Abbreviation

WAT

used year-round

DST behaviour

Never

has never observed daylight saving

Country

🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea

ISO 3166: GQ · view country page →

Using this identifier

The string to put in your code.

Africa/Malabo is the identifier to use in code and config for this region. Every modern language, database, and OS resolves it through the same tz database, so the examples here behave identically everywhere.

Avoid storing WAT or +01:00 — abbreviations are ambiguous and fixed offsets can't follow rule changes.

// format a date in this zone
new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', {
timeZone: 'Africa/Malabo',
dateStyle: 'full', timeStyle: 'long'
}).format(new Date());

Offset & DST behaviour

One offset,
62 years.

Africa/Malabo has kept UTC+01:00 year-round since 15 December 1963 — no daylight saving and no offset changes on record since. It is among the most stable identifiers in the database.

Every offset this zone has kept

+00:35:08UTC+01:00 · UNCHANGED 15 December 1963 NOW

Keeping this offset since

15 December 1963

Next transition

None scheduled

no DST rules exist for this zone

Safe to assume

Local = UTC + 1h, always

…but store the identifier anyway

Technical record

The database entry, in full.

source: IANA tz database

IdentifierAfrica/Malabo
ISO country codeGQ🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea
Reference coordinates3.75°N, 8.78°Etz database reference point
Standard offsetUTC+01:00abbreviation WAT
Daylight offset—daylight saving has never been observed

Where it applies

All of Equatorial Guinea, one clock.

Looking for travel-friendly info? See Ciudad de la Paz or West Africa Standard Time.

🇬🇶
Equatorial Guinea

1.8M people, one time zone. The whole country resolves to Africa/Malabo.

Country page →
🇬🇶 Ciudad de la Paz
00:00
00:00:12 · WAT
pop. 2KWAT

Related identifiers

Nearby in the database.

Same zone group · West Africa Standard Time

other identifiers keeping WAT

Same offset · UTC+01:00

other zones keeping this offset right now

Frequently asked questions

Answers specific to this identifier — generated from the database record. Can't find what you need? Email [email protected].

What UTC offset is Africa/Malabo?
Africa/Malabo is UTC+01:00, year-round. The offset never changes because the zone does not observe daylight saving time.
Does Africa/Malabo observe daylight saving time?
No. Africa/Malabo has never observed DST — it has kept UTC+01:00 continuously since 15 December 1963.
Which country uses Africa/Malabo?
Equatorial Guinea. The identifier covers the whole country.
Is Africa/Malabo the same as WAT?
Africa/Malabo is one of the IANA zones that keeps West Africa Standard Time (WAT). Use Africa/Malabo in software — WAT is a human-friendly label, not a valid identifier.

Free · Developer API

This zone, as JSON.

Everything on this page — offset, abbreviation, DST rules, coordinates — from one endpoint, always current with the latest tzdb release.

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// this identifier, resolved live
GET /v1/timezones?iana=Africa/Malabo
{
"iana": "Africa/Malabo",
"utc_offset": "+01:00",
"abbreviation": "WAT",
"observes_dst": false,
"country": "GQ"
}