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ET
Eastern Time
GMT -5
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AZOT/AZOST
Azores Time
GMT -1
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How the time difference changes

For most of the year, ET is 4 hours behind AZOST. At other times of the year, ET is 4 hours behind AZOT or ET is 3 hours behind AZOT.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in ET correspond to 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm in AZOST. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in ET correspond to 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm in AZOT or working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in ET correspond to 12:00 pm to 8:00 pm in AZOT.

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

Time Difference

Eastern Time is 4 hours behind Azores Time
7:00 am07:00 in ET is 11:00 am11:00 in AZOT

ET to AZOT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-1pm in ET which corresponds to 1pm-5pm in AZOT

7:00 am07:00 Eastern Time (ET). Offset UTC -5:00 hours
11:00 am11:00 Azores Time (AZOT). Offset UTC -1:00 hours

7:00 am07:00 ET / 11:00 am11:00 AZOT

ETAZOT
12am (midnight)4am
1am5am
2am6am
3am7am
4am8am
5am9am
6am10am
7am11am
8am12pm (noon)
9am1pm
10am2pm
11am3pm
12pm (noon)4pm
1pm5pm
2pm6pm
3pm7pm
4pm8pm
5pm9pm
6pm10pm
7pm11pm
8pm12am (midnight)
9pm1am
10pm2am
11pm3am
00:0004:00
01:0005:00
02:0006:00
03:0007:00
04:0008:00
05:0009:00
06:0010:00
07:0011:00
08:0012:00
09:0013:00
10:0014:00
11:0015:00
12:0016:00
13:0017:00
14:0018:00
15:0019:00
16:0020:00
17:0021:00
18:0022:00
19:0023:00
20:0000:00
21:0001:00
22:0002:00
23:0003:00

Eastern Time

Eastern Time (ET) is a general term used to describe the areas that observe either the Eastern Standard Time (EST) or Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) in the United States and Canada. ET is not static but switches between EDT and EST.

ET is also used somewhat as a de facto official time for all of the United States because it encompasses 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States including the capital city Washington D.C., the most populous city New York and half of the country’s population.

In the United States nationally televised programs, evening newscasts, talent and awards shows, and any other nationally televised event that airs live on American television during prime time and on the weekends are broadcast live in the Eastern Time Zone. Major professional sports leagues MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL also provide their game times in Eastern Time, even if teams are from outside of Eastern Time.

Countries using this time zone: Bahamas, Canada, Haiti, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Mexico, Panama, Turks & Caicos Is, United States.

Principal Cities: The largest city in the EST time zone is New York City in the United States, with about 8.175 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Toronto, Montreal, Brooklyn, Borough of Queens.

French: HNE - Heure Normale de l'Est

Spanish: ET - Tiempo del Este, ET - Zona Sureste

ET representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • -05 - basic short
  • -0500 - basic
  • -05:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • -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.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Romeo - Military abbreviation for ET
  • R - short form of 'Romeo'
ET Abbreviation: Several time zones share ET abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
  • Eastern Time - UTC -5
  • Tiempo del Este - UTC -5
Time zones with the GMT -5 offset:
  • 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

Azores Summer Time

Offset: AZOST is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Atlantic

AZOST Time Zone Geo Map
AZOST timezone map

Daylight Saving: Azores Summer Time (AZOST) is a daylight saving/summer time zone, but some places set clocks back one hour during winter and observe Azores Time (AZOT).

Daylight saving time clock moves forward for one hour from 1am to 2amEnd: Azores Summer Time (AZOST) ended on Sunday, October 26, 2025 at 1:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour back to Sunday, October 26, 2025, 12:00 am local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually on the last Sunday of October

Daylight saving time clock moves back for one hour from 12am to 11pmStart: Azores Summer Time (AZOST) starts on Sunday, March 29, 2026 at 12:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour forward to Sunday, March 29, 2026, 1:00 am. Daylight saving starts annually on the last Sunday of March

AZOST 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 AZOST
  • Z - short form of 'Zulu'
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 - Universal Time Coordinated
  • WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
  • Z - Zulu Time Zone