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The United Kingdom is on summer time: BST (UTC+1) until Sun, Oct 25.

Iceland and Ghana stay on GMT (UTC+0).

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8:00 pm20:00 AWST (UTC+8), Oct 12, 2026 = 12:00 pm12:00 GMT (UTC+0), Oct 12, 2026

AWST is 8 hours ahead of GMT.

AWST and GMT examples

These examples always use AWST (UTC+8) and GMT (UTC+0). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.

AWST is 8 hours ahead of GMT.

How the time difference changes

AWST is 8 hours ahead of GMT year-round.

Working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in AWST correspond to 1:00 am to 9:00 am in GMT.Working hours of 09:00 to 17:00 in AWST correspond to 01:00 to 09:00 in GMT.

Compare AWST time with GMT time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.

Time Difference

Australian Western Standard Time is 8 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.
8:00 pm20:00 in AWST is 12:00 pm12:00 in GMT

AWST to GMT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 4:30pm-5:30pm16:30-17:30 in AWST which corresponds to 8:30am-9:30am08:30-09:30 in GMT. Their 9am–5pm09:00–17:00 working hours do not overlap; this is a suggested compromise.

8:00 pm20:00 Australian Western Standard Time (AWST). Offset UTC +8:00 hours
12:00 pm12:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours

8:00 pm20:00 AWST / 12:00 pm12:00 GMT

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Australian Western Standard Time

Offset: AWST is 8 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Australia

Principal Cities: The largest city in the AWST time zone is Perth in Australia, with about 2.384 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Mandurah, Bunbury, Geraldton, Albany.

Daylight Saving: Clocks in Australian Western Standard Time (AWST) do not change for daylight saving time, so AWST stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.

AWST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +08 - basic short
  • +0800 - basic
  • +08:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0800 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (08) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of eight hours to the east of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Hotel - Military abbreviation for AWST
  • H - short form of 'Hotel'
IANA/Olson: Reflects AWST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • Australia/Perth
  • Australia/West
Time zones with the GMT +8 offset:
  • ACT - ASEAN Common Time
  • AWST - Australian Western Standard Time
  • BNT - Brunei Darussalam Time
  • CAST - Casey Time
  • CHOT - Choibalsan Time
  • CST - China Standard Time
  • H - Hotel Time Zone
  • HKT - Hong Kong Time
  • HOVST - Hovd Summer Time
  • IRKT - Irkutsk Time
  • KRAST - Krasnoyarsk Summer Time
  • MYT - Malaysia Time
  • PHT - Philippine Time
  • SGT - Singapore Time
  • ULAT - Ulaanbaatar Time
  • WITA - Central Indonesian Time

Greenwich Mean Time

Offset: GMT is the same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Britain (UK), Guernsey, Ghana, Greenland, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ireland, Isle of Man, Iceland, Jersey, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, St Helena, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Sao Tome & Principe, Togo

Principal Cities: The largest city in the GMT time zone is London in the United Kingdom, with about 8.962 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Abidjan, Bamako, Dakar, Kumasi.

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) originally referred to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It is now often used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when this is viewed as a time zone, and in casual use the two are the same. In the military, GMT is known as Zulu time. Greenwich Mean Time was the same as Universal Time (UT), a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields, until the introduction of UTC in 1972.

Map of the areas on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
GMT all year GMT part of the year

Today the lighter areas are on UTC+1 (British Summer Time, Irish Standard Time).

GMT representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
  • +00 - basic short
  • +0000 - basic
  • +00:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates the zero UTC/GMT offset.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Zulu - Military abbreviation for GMT
  • Z - short form of 'Zulu'
IANA/Olson: Reflects GMT time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • Africa/Abidjan
  • Africa/Accra
  • Africa/Bamako
  • Africa/Banjul
  • Africa/Bissau
  • Africa/Conakry
  • Africa/Dakar
  • Africa/Freetown
  • Africa/Lome
  • Africa/Monrovia
  • Africa/Nouakchott
  • Africa/Ouagadougou
  • Africa/Sao_Tome
  • Africa/Timbuktu
  • America/Danmarkshavn
  • Atlantic/Reykjavik
  • Atlantic/St_Helena
  • Eire
  • Etc/GMT
  • Etc/GMT+0
  • Etc/GMT-0
  • Etc/GMT0
  • Etc/Greenwich
  • Europe/Belfast
  • Europe/Dublin
  • Europe/Guernsey
  • Europe/Isle_of_Man
  • Europe/Jersey
  • Europe/London
  • GB
  • GB-Eire
  • GMT
  • GMT+0
  • GMT-0
  • GMT0
  • Greenwich
  • Iceland
Time zones with the GMT +0 offset:
  • EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
  • GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
  • WET - Western European Time
  • AZOST - Azores Summer Time
  • UTC - Coordinated Universal Time
  • WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
  • Z - Zulu Time Zone