ECT to GMT Converter
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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7:00 am07:00 ECT (UTC-5), Oct 5, 2026 = 12:00 pm12:00 GMT (UTC+0), Oct 5, 2026
ECT is 5 hours behind GMT.
ECT and GMT examples
These examples always use ECT (UTC-5) 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.
ECT is 5 hours behind GMT.
How the time difference changes
ECT is 5 hours behind GMT year-round.
Working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in ECT correspond to 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm in GMT.Working hours of 09:00 to 17:00 in ECT correspond to 14:00 to 22:00 in GMT.
Compare ECT time with GMT time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Ecuador Time is 5 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time.
7:00 am07:00 in ECT is 12:00 pm12:00 in GMT
ECT to GMT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-12pm09:00-12:00 in ECT which corresponds to 2pm-5pm14:00-17:00 in GMT
7:00 am07:00 Ecuador Time (ECT). Offset UTC -5:00 hours
12:00 pm12:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
7:00 am07:00 ECT / 12:00 pm12:00 GMT
| ECT | GMT |
|---|---|
| 12:00am | 5:00am |
| 1:00am | 6:00am |
| 2:00am | 7:00am |
| 3:00am | 8:00am |
| 4:00am | 9:00am |
| 5:00am | 10:00am |
| 6:00am | 11:00am |
| 7:00am | 12:00pm |
| 8:00am | 1:00pm |
| 9:00am | 2:00pm |
| 10:00am | 3:00pm |
| 11:00am | 4:00pm |
| 12:00pm | 5:00pm |
| 1:00pm | 6:00pm |
| 2:00pm | 7:00pm |
| 3:00pm | 8:00pm |
| 4:00pm | 9:00pm |
| 5:00pm | 10:00pm |
| 6:00pm | 11:00pm |
| 7:00pm | 12:00am |
| 8:00pm | 1:00am |
| 9:00pm | 2:00am |
| 10:00pm | 3:00am |
| 11:00pm | 4:00am |
| 00:00 | 05:00 |
| 01:00 | 06:00 |
| 02:00 | 07:00 |
| 03:00 | 08:00 |
| 04:00 | 09:00 |
| 05:00 | 10:00 |
| 06:00 | 11:00 |
| 07:00 | 12:00 |
| 08:00 | 13:00 |
| 09:00 | 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 | 00:00 |
| 20:00 | 01:00 |
| 21:00 | 02:00 |
| 22:00 | 03:00 |
| 23:00 | 04:00 |
Ecuador Time
Offset: ECT is 5 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in South America
Countries using this time zone: Ecuador
Principal Cities: The largest city in the ECT time zone is Quito in Ecuador, with about 2.782 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Guayaquil, Cuenca, Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Machala.
Daylight Saving: Clocks in Ecuador Time (ECT) do not change for daylight saving time, so ECT stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.
ECT representations, usage and related time zones
- -05 - basic short
- -0500 - basic
- -05:00 - extended
- -0500 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (05) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of five hours to the west of the zero meridian.
- Romeo - Military abbreviation for ECT
- R - short form of 'Romeo'
- CDT - Central Daylight Time
- EST - Eastern Standard Time
- ET - Eastern Time
- COT - Colombia Time
- CST - Cuba Standard Time
- EASST - Easter Island Summer Time
- ECT - Ecuador Time
- PET - Peru Time
- R - Romeo Time Zone
Greenwich Mean Time
Offset: GMT is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Europe
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 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 for the most parts it is the same. In military GMT is known as Zulu time.Greenwich Mean Time was the same as Universal Time (UT), until the introduction of UTC in 1972 a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields.
GMT representations, usage and related time zones
- Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
- +00 - basic short
- +0000 - basic
- +00:00 - extended
- +0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates the zero UTC/GMT offset.
- Zulu - Military abbreviation for GMT
- Z - short form of 'Zulu'
- 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
- EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
- GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
- WET - Western European Time
- AZOST - Azores Summer Time
- UTC - Universal Time Coordinated
- WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
- Z - Zulu Time Zone