Benin
WAT
AST
Argentina Standard Time
GMT -3

Time Difference

WAT (West Africa Time) is 4 hours ahead of Argentina Standard Time
12:30 am00:30 in Cotonou, Benin is 8:30 pm20:30 in AST

Cotonou to AST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 12pm-6pm in Cotonou which corresponds to 8am-2pm in AST

12:30 am00:30 WAT (West Africa Time) (Cotonou, Benin). Offset UTC +1:00 hour
8:30 pm20:30 Argentina Standard Time (AST). Offset UTC -3:00 hours

12:30 am00:30 Cotonou, Benin / 8:30 pm20:30 AST

Cotonou, Benin AST
12am (midnight) 8pm
1am 9pm
2am 10pm
3am 11pm
4am 12am (midnight)
5am 1am
6am 2am
7am 3am
8am 4am
9am 5am
10am 6am
11am 7am
12pm (noon) 8am
1pm 9am
2pm 10am
3pm 11am
4pm 12pm (noon)
5pm 1pm
6pm 2pm
7pm 3pm
8pm 4pm
9pm 5pm
10pm 6pm
11pm 7pm
0:00 20:00
1:00 21:00
2:00 22:00
3:00 23:00
4:00 0:00
5:00 1:00
6:00 2:00
7:00 3:00
8:00 4:00
9:00 5:00
10:00 6:00
11:00 7:00
12:00 8:00
13:00 9:00
14:00 10:00
15:00 11:00
16:00 12:00
17:00 13:00
18:00 14:00
19:00 15:00
20:00 16:00
21:00 17:00
22:00 18:00
23:00 19:00

Cotonou Information

Time Zone

Abbreviation / Name
WAT - West Africa Time
UTC / GMT Offset
+1:00 hour during West Africa Time, currently in use.

Cotonou Facts

Country
Benin
Alternative Names
Appi, COO, Catonou, Cotonou, Cotonu, Cotonú, Katanu, Kotonou, Kotonu, Kotonuo, Kutonu, Kútọnu, ji da nu, ke tuo nu, kotonu, kottonau, kwtwnw, qwtwnw, Κοτονού, Катану, Котону, קוטונו, كوتونو, کوتونو, कोतोनू, ਕੋਤੋਨੂ, கொட்டொனௌ, კოტონუ, コトヌー, 吉大奴, 科托努, 코토누
Population
780,000
Currency
Franc (XOF)
Geographic Coordinates
6° 21' N Latitude / 2° 25' E Longitude
International Dialing Code
+229

Argentina Standard Time

Offset: AST is 3 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in America

Countries: It is used in following countries: Bermuda, Canada, Greenland

Principal Cities: The largest city in the AST timezone is Halifax from Canada with population about 359,111 people. Other major cities in the area are Sydney, Dartmouth, Saint John, Moncton

AST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • -03 - basic short
  • -0300 - basic
  • -03:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • -0300 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (03) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates three hour and zero minutes time differences to the west of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Papa - Military abbreviation for AST
  • P - short form of 'Papa'
AST Abbreviation: Several time zones share AST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
  • Atlantic Standard Time - UTC -4
  • Arabia Standard Time - UTC +3
  • Arabian Standard Time - UTC +3
  • Argentina Standard Time - UTC -3
  • Apia Standard Time - UTC +13
  • Azores Summer Time - UTC +0
Time zones with the GMT -3 offset:
  • ADT - Atlantic Daylight Time
  • PMT - Pierre & Miquelon Standard Time
  • PMST - Pierre & Miquelon Standard Time
  • WGT - West Greenland Time
  • AMST - Amazon Summer Time
  • ART - Argentina Time
  • BRT - Brasília time
  • CLST - Chile Summer Time
  • FKST - Falkland Islands Summer Time
  • GFT - French Guiana Time
  • P - Papa Time Zone
  • PYST - Paraguay Summer Time
  • SRT - Suriname Time
  • UYT - Uruguay Time