BST to EAT Converter
Time Difference
British Summer Time is 2 hours behind Eastern Africa Time
6:30 pm18:30 in BST is 8:30 pm20:30 in EAT
BST to EAT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-4pm in BST which corresponds to 10am-6pm in EAT
6:30 pm18:30 British Summer Time (BST). Offset UTC +1:00 hour
8:30 pm20:30 Eastern Africa Time (EAT). Offset UTC +3:00 hours
6:30 pm18:30 BST / 8:30 pm20:30 EAT
BST | EAT |
---|---|
12am (midnight) | 2am |
1am | 3am |
2am | 4am |
3am | 5am |
4am | 6am |
5am | 7am |
6am | 8am |
7am | 9am |
8am | 10am |
9am | 11am |
10am | 12pm (noon) |
11am | 1pm |
12pm (noon) | 2pm |
1pm | 3pm |
2pm | 4pm |
3pm | 5pm |
4pm | 6pm |
5pm | 7pm |
6pm | 8pm |
7pm | 9pm |
8pm | 10pm |
9pm | 11pm |
10pm | 12am (midnight) |
11pm | 1am |
0:00 | 2:00 |
1:00 | 3:00 |
2:00 | 4:00 |
3:00 | 5:00 |
4:00 | 6:00 |
5:00 | 7:00 |
6:00 | 8:00 |
7:00 | 9:00 |
8:00 | 10:00 |
9:00 | 11:00 |
10:00 | 12:00 |
11:00 | 13:00 |
12:00 | 14:00 |
13:00 | 15:00 |
14:00 | 16:00 |
15:00 | 17:00 |
16:00 | 18:00 |
17:00 | 19:00 |
18:00 | 20:00 |
19:00 | 21:00 |
20:00 | 22:00 |
21:00 | 23:00 |
22:00 | 0:00 |
23:00 | 1:00 |
British Summer Time
Offset: BST is 1 hour ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Europe
Countries: It is used in following countries: Britain (UK), Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey
Principal Cities: The largest city in the BST timezone is London from United Kingdom with population about 7.557 million people. Other major cities in the area are Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, Saint Helier

Daylight Saving: British Summer Time (BST) is a daylight saving/summer timezone, however during winter some places switch clocks for one hour back and observe Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Start: British Summer Time (BST) started on Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 1:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 30, 2025, 2:00 am. Daylight saving starts annually the on last Sunday of March
End: British Summer Time (BST) ends on Sunday, October 26, 2025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, October 26, 2025, 1:00 am local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually the on last Sunday of October
BST representations, usage and related time zones
- +01 - basic short
- +0100 - basic
- +01:00 - extended
- +0100 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (01) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates one hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
- Alpha - Military abbreviation for BST
- A - short form of 'Alpha'
- Europe/Belfast
- Europe/Guernsey
- Europe/Isle_of_Man
- Europe/Jersey
- Europe/London
- GB
- GB-Eire
- British Summer Time - UTC +1
- Bangladesh Standard Time - UTC +6
- Bougainville Standard Time - UTC +11
- Brasilia Standard Time - UTC -3
- BST - British Summer Time
- CET - Central European Time
- IST - Irish Standard Time
- WEST - Western European Summer Time
- A - Alpha Time Zone
- CET - Central European Time
- MEZ - Mitteleuropäische Zeit
- WAT - West Africa Time
- WST - Western Sahara Summer Time
- BMT - Biel Mean Time
Eastern Africa Time
Offset: EAT is 3 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Africa
Countries: It is used in following countries: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Comoros, Madagascar, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Mayotte
Principal Cities: The largest city in the EAT timezone is Addis Ababa from Ethiopia with population about 2.758 million people. Other major cities in the area are Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Mogadishu, Antananarivo
Daylight Saving: Eastern Africa Time (EAT) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore EAT remains the same through out the year. This means, unlike some time zones where the clock is set forward by one hour every summer and backward by one hour during winter to adjust for daylight saving, Eastern Africa Time remains the same

EAT representations, usage and related time zones
- +03 - basic short
- +0300 - basic
- +03:00 - extended
- +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 east of the zero meridian.
- Charlie - Military abbreviation for EAT
- C - short form of 'Charlie'
- Africa/Addis_Ababa
- Africa/Asmara
- Africa/Asmera
- Africa/Dar_es_Salaam
- Africa/Djibouti
- Africa/Kampala
- Africa/Mogadishu
- Africa/Nairobi
- Indian/Antananarivo
- Indian/Comoro
- Indian/Mayotte
- EEST - Eastern European Summer Time
- MSK - Moscow Standard Time
- AST - Arabia Standard Time
- C - Charlie Time Zone
- EAT - Eastern Africa Time
- FET - Further Eastern European Time
- IDT - Israel Daylight Time
- TRT - Turkey Time