Paris, France to WAT to SAST to GMT to IST to EST
Time Difference
CEST (Central European Summer Time) is 1 hour ahead of West Africa Time and 0 hours ahead of South Africa Standard Time and 2 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and 3 hours and 30 minutes behind India Standard Time and 6 hours ahead of Eastern Daylight Time
6:00 pm18:00 in Paris, France is 5:00 pm17:00 in WAT and is 6:00 pm18:00 in SAST and is 4:00 pm16:00 in GMT and is 9:30 pm21:30 in IST and is 12:00 pm12:00 in EDT
Paris to WAT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-6pm in Paris which corresponds to 8am-5pm in WAT
Paris to SAST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-6pm in Paris which corresponds to 8am-6pm in SAST
Paris to GMT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 10am-6pm in Paris which corresponds to 8am-4pm in GMT
Paris to IST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-2:30pm in Paris which corresponds to 11:30am-6pm in IST
Paris to EST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 3pm-6pm in Paris which corresponds to 8am-11am in EST
6:00 pm18:00 CEST (Central European Summer Time) (Paris, France). Offset UTC +2:00 hours
5:00 pm17:00 West Africa Time (WAT). Offset UTC +1:00 hour
6:00 pm18:00 South Africa Standard Time (SAST). Offset UTC +2:00 hours
4:00 pm16:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
9:30 pm21:30 India Standard Time (IST). Offset UTC +5:30 hours
12:00 pm12:00 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Offset UTC -4:00 hours
6:00 pm18:00 Paris, France / 5:00 pm17:00 WAT / 6:00 pm18:00 SAST / 4:00 pm16:00 GMT / 9:30 pm21:30 IST / 12:00 pm12:00 EDT
| Paris, France | WAT | SAST | GMT | IST | EDT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 11pm | 12am (midnight) | 10pm | 3:30 am | 6pm |
| 1am | 12am (midnight) | 1am | 11pm | 4:30 am | 7pm |
| 2am | 1am | 2am | 12am (midnight) | 5:30 am | 8pm |
| 3am | 2am | 3am | 1am | 6:30 am | 9pm |
| 4am | 3am | 4am | 2am | 7:30 am | 10pm |
| 5am | 4am | 5am | 3am | 8:30 am | 11pm |
| 6am | 5am | 6am | 4am | 9:30 am | 12am (midnight) |
| 7am | 6am | 7am | 5am | 10:30 am | 1am |
| 8am | 7am | 8am | 6am | 11:30 am | 2am |
| 9am | 8am | 9am | 7am | 12:30 pm | 3am |
| 10am | 9am | 10am | 8am | 1:30 pm | 4am |
| 11am | 10am | 11am | 9am | 2:30 pm | 5am |
| 12pm (noon) | 11am | 12pm (noon) | 10am | 3:30 pm | 6am |
| 1pm | 12pm (noon) | 1pm | 11am | 4:30 pm | 7am |
| 2pm | 1pm | 2pm | 12pm (noon) | 5:30 pm | 8am |
| 3pm | 2pm | 3pm | 1pm | 6:30 pm | 9am |
| 4pm | 3pm | 4pm | 2pm | 7:30 pm | 10am |
| 5pm | 4pm | 5pm | 3pm | 8:30 pm | 11am |
| 6pm | 5pm | 6pm | 4pm | 9:30 pm | 12pm (noon) |
| 7pm | 6pm | 7pm | 5pm | 10:30 pm | 1pm |
| 8pm | 7pm | 8pm | 6pm | 11:30 pm | 2pm |
| 9pm | 8pm | 9pm | 7pm | 12:30 am | 3pm |
| 10pm | 9pm | 10pm | 8pm | 1:30 am | 4pm |
| 11pm | 10pm | 11pm | 9pm | 2:30 am | 5pm |
| 0:00 | 23:00 | 0:00 | 22:00 | 3:30 | 18:00 |
| 1:00 | 0:00 | 1:00 | 23:00 | 4:30 | 19:00 |
| 2:00 | 1:00 | 2:00 | 0:00 | 5:30 | 20:00 |
| 3:00 | 2:00 | 3:00 | 1:00 | 6:30 | 21:00 |
| 4:00 | 3:00 | 4:00 | 2:00 | 7:30 | 22:00 |
| 5:00 | 4:00 | 5:00 | 3:00 | 8:30 | 23:00 |
| 6:00 | 5:00 | 6:00 | 4:00 | 9:30 | 0:00 |
| 7:00 | 6:00 | 7:00 | 5:00 | 10:30 | 1:00 |
| 8:00 | 7:00 | 8:00 | 6:00 | 11:30 | 2:00 |
| 9:00 | 8:00 | 9:00 | 7:00 | 12:30 | 3:00 |
| 10:00 | 9:00 | 10:00 | 8:00 | 13:30 | 4:00 |
| 11:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | 9:00 | 14:30 | 5:00 |
| 12:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 10:00 | 15:30 | 6:00 |
| 13:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 11:00 | 16:30 | 7:00 |
| 14:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 12:00 | 17:30 | 8:00 |
| 15:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 13:00 | 18:30 | 9:00 |
| 16:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 14:00 | 19:30 | 10:00 |
| 17:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 15:00 | 20:30 | 11:00 |
| 18:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 | 16:00 | 21:30 | 12:00 |
| 19:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | 17:00 | 22:30 | 13:00 |
| 20:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 | 18:00 | 23:30 | 14:00 |
| 21:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 19:00 | 0:30 | 15:00 |
| 22:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 20:00 | 1:30 | 16:00 |
| 23:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 | 21:00 | 2:30 | 17:00 |
Paris Information
Time Zone
CET - Central European Time
+1:00 hour during Central European Time.
Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 2:00 am local time. DST starts annually the on last Sunday of March. Clocks are turned forward 1 hour to Sunday, March 31, 2024, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Also called Spring Forward or Summer Time.
Sunday, October 27, 2024 at 3:00 am local time. DST ends annually the on last Sunday of October. Clocks are turned backward 1 hour to Sunday, October 27, 2024, 2:00 am local standard time instead. Also called Fall Back or switch to Winter Time.
Paris Facts
West Africa Time
Offset: WAT is 1 hour ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Africa
Countries: It is used in following countries: Angola, Benin, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Central African Rep., Congo (Rep.), Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Niger, Nigeria, Chad
Principal Cities: The largest city in the WAT timezone is Lagos from Nigeria with population about 9 million people. Other major cities in the area are Kinshasa, Kano, Ibadan, Luanda
Daylight Saving: West Africa Time (WAT) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore WAT 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, West Africa Time remains the same
WAT 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 WAT
- A - short form of 'Alpha'
- Africa/Bangui
- Africa/Brazzaville
- Africa/Douala
- Africa/Kinshasa
- Africa/Lagos
- Africa/Libreville
- Africa/Luanda
- Africa/Malabo
- Africa/Ndjamena
- Africa/Niamey
- Africa/Porto-Novo
- 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
South Africa Standard Time
Offset: SAST is 2 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Africa
Countries: It is used in following countries: Lesotho, Eswatini (Swaziland), South Africa
Principal Cities: The largest city in the SAST timezone is Cape Town from South Africa with population about 3.433 million people. Other major cities in the area are Durban, Johannesburg, Soweto, Pretoria
Daylight Saving: South Africa Standard Time (SAST) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore SAST 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, South Africa Standard Time remains the same
SAST representations, usage and related time zones
- +02 - basic short
- +0200 - basic
- +02:00 - extended
- +0200 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (02) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates two hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
- Bravo - Military abbreviation for SAST
- B - short form of 'Bravo'
- Africa/Johannesburg
- Africa/Maseru
- Africa/Mbabane
- CEST - Central European Summer Time
- EET - Eastern European Time
- MESZ - Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
- B - Bravo Time Zone
- CAT - Central Africa Time
- IST - Israel Standard Time
- SAST - South Africa Standard Time
- WAST - West Africa Summer Time
Greenwich Mean Time
Offset: GMT is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Europe
Countries: It is used in following countries: 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 timezone is London from United Kingdom with population about 7.557 million people. Other major cities in the area are Abidjan, Dakar, Grand Dakar, Accra
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 zero hour and zero minutes time differences of the zero meridian.
- 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
- Greenwich Mean Time - UTC +0
- GMT+03:00 - UTC +3
- GMT+06:00 - UTC +6
- GMT - UTC +0
- GMT+11:00 - UTC +11
- 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
India Standard Time
Offset: IST is 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Asia
Countries: It is used in following countries: India
Principal Cities: The largest city in the IST timezone is Mumbai from India with population about 12.692 million people. Other major cities in the area are Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai
Daylight Saving: India Standard Time (IST) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore IST 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, India Standard Time remains the same
IST representations, usage and related time zones
- +0530 - basic
- +05:30 - extended
- +0530 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (05) and minutes (30) of the offset. Indicates five hour and thirty minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
- Asia/Calcutta
- Asia/Kolkata
- India Standard Time - UTC +5:30
- Irish Standard Time - UTC +1
- Israel Standard Time - UTC +2
- Iran Standard Time - UTC +3:30
Eastern Standard Time
Offset: EST is 5 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America
Countries: It is used in following countries: Bahamas, Canada, Haiti, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Mexico, Panama, Turks & Caicos Is, United States
Principal Cities: The largest city in the EST timezone is New York City from USA with population about 8.175 million people. Other major cities in the area are Toronto, Montreal, Brooklyn, Borough of Queens
French: HNE - Heure Normale de l'Est
Spanish: ET - Tiempo del Este, ET - Zona Sureste
Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone, however during summer some places switch clocks for one hour forward when daylight saving comes into effect and observe Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
End: Eastern Standard Time (EST) has ended on Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 10, 2024, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually the on second Sunday of March.
Start: Eastern Standard Time (EST) starts on Sunday, November 3, 2024 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, November 3, 2024, 1:00 am. Standard time starts annually the on first Sunday of November.
EST 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 five hour and zero minutes time differences to the west of the zero meridian.
- Romeo - Military abbreviation for EST
- R - short form of 'Romeo'
- America/Atikokan
- America/Cancun
- America/Cayman
- America/Coral_Harbour
- America/Detroit
- America/Fort_Wayne
- America/Grand_Turk
- America/Indiana/Indianapolis
- America/Indiana/Marengo
- America/Indiana/Petersburg
- America/Indiana/Vevay
- America/Indiana/Vincennes
- America/Indiana/Winamac
- America/Indianapolis
- America/Iqaluit
- America/Jamaica
- America/Kentucky/Louisville
- America/Kentucky/Monticello
- America/Louisville
- America/Montreal
- America/Nassau
- America/New_York
- America/Nipigon
- America/Panama
- America/Pangnirtung
- America/Port-au-Prince
- America/Thunder_Bay
- America/Toronto
- Canada/Eastern
- EST
- EST5EDT
- Jamaica
- US/East-Indiana
- US/Eastern
- US/Michigan
- 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