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The United Kingdom is on standard time: GMT (UTC+0) until Sun, Mar 28, 2027.
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12:30 pm12:30 GMT (UTC+0), Oct 25, 2026 = 6:00 pm18:00 IST (UTC+5:30), Oct 25, 2026

GMT is 5 hours and 30 minutes behind Bissāu.

How the time difference changes

For most of the year, BST is 4 hours and 30 minutes behind Bissau, India. From Oct 25, 2026 to Mar 28, 2027, GMT is 5 hours and 30 minutes behind Bissau, India.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in BST correspond to 1:30 pm to 10:30 pm in Bissau, India. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in GMT correspond to 2:30 pm to 11:30 pm in Bissau, India.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in BST correspond to 13:30 to 22:30 in Bissau, India. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in GMT correspond to 14:30 to 23:30 in Bissau, India.

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

Time Difference

Greenwich Mean Time is 5 hours and 30 minutes behind IST (India Standard Time).
12:30 pm12:30 in GMT is 6:00 pm18:00 in Bissau, India

GMT to Bissāu call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-12:30pm09:00-12:30 in GMT which corresponds to 2:30pm-6pm14:30-18:00 in Bissāu

12:30 pm12:30 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
6:00 pm18:00 IST (India Standard Time) (Bissau, India). Offset UTC +5:30 hours

12:30 pm12:30 GMT / 6:00 pm18:00 Bissau, India

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British Summer Time

Offset: BST is 1 hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, United Kingdom

Principal Cities: The largest city in the BST time zone is London in the United Kingdom, with about 8.962 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield.

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.

Current time in the United Kingdom: UK time now

Map of the areas on British Summer Time (BST)
BST part of the year

Today the shaded areas are on UTC+0 (GMT).

BST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +01 - basic short
  • +0100 - basic
  • +01:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0100 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (01) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of one hour to the east of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Alpha - Military abbreviation for BST
  • A - short form of 'Alpha'
IANA/Olson: Reflects BST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • Europe/Belfast
  • Europe/Guernsey
  • Europe/Isle_of_Man
  • Europe/Jersey
  • Europe/London
  • GB
  • GB-Eire
BST Abbreviation: Several time zones share BST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
  • British Summer Time - UTC +1
  • Bangladesh Standard Time - UTC +6
  • Bougainville Standard Time - UTC +11
Time zones with the GMT +1 offset:
  • 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

Bissāu Time Zone and Facts

Time Zone

Abbreviation / Offset
IST – India Standard Time, UTC+5:30 (no daylight saving time)

Bissāu Facts

Country
India
Alternative Names
Bisau, Bissau, Bissāu, Бисау
Population
23,227
Currency
Rupee (INR)
Geographic Coordinates
28° 14' N Latitude / 75° 04' E Longitude
International Dialing Code
+91
Current Time in India