GMT to IST Israel Converter
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12:00 pm12:00 GMT (UTC+0), Oct 29, 2026 = 2:00 pm14:00 IST (UTC+2), Oct 29, 2026
GMT is 2 hours behind IST.
GMT and IST examples
These examples always use GMT (UTC+0) and IST (UTC+2). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.
GMT is 2 hours behind IST.
How the time difference changes
For most of the year, GMT is 3 hours behind IDT Israel. From Oct 25, 2026 to Mar 26, 2027, GMT is 2 hours behind IST Israel.
For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in GMT correspond to 12:00 pm to 9:00 pm in IDT Israel. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in GMT correspond to 11:00 am to 8:00 pm in IST Israel.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in GMT correspond to 12:00 to 21:00 in IDT Israel. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in GMT correspond to 11:00 to 20:00 in IST Israel.
Compare GMT time with IST time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Greenwich Mean Time is 2 hours behind Israel Standard Time.
12:00 pm12:00 in GMT is 2:00 pm14:00 in IST
GMT to IST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-4pm09:00-16:00 in GMT which corresponds to 11am-6pm11:00-18:00 in IST
12:00 pm12:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
2:00 pm14:00 Israel Standard Time (IST). Offset UTC +2:00 hours
12:00 pm12:00 GMT / 2:00 pm14:00 IST
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Greenwich Mean Time
Offset: GMT is the same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Countries using this time zone: Antarctica, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Greenland, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Ivory Coast, Jersey, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Saint Helena, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, United Kingdom, Western Sahara
Principal Cities: The largest city in the GMT time zone is London in the United Kingdom, with about 8.962 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Abidjan, Bamako, Casablanca, Dakar.
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.
Today all shaded areas are on GMT.
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 - Coordinated Universal Time
- WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
- Z - Zulu Time Zone
Israel Standard Time
Offset: IST is 2 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Countries using this time zone: Israel
Principal Cities: The largest city in the IST time zone is Jerusalem in Israel, with about 971,800 people. Other major cities in this time zone include Tel Aviv, Haifa, Rishon LeTsiyyon, Petaẖ Tiqva.
Today all shaded areas are on IST.
Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone. During summer, some places set clocks forward one hour for daylight saving time and observe Israel Daylight Time (IDT).
Start: Israel Standard Time (IST) started on Sunday, October 25, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks were set one hour back to Sunday, October 25, 2026, 1:00 am01:00. Standard time starts annually on the last Sunday of October.
End: Israel Standard Time (IST) ends on Friday, March 26, 2027 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks are set one hour forward to Friday, March 26, 2027, 3:00 am03:00 local daylight time instead.
See Israel daylight saving time and upcoming clock changes worldwide.
IST 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 an offset of two hours to the east of the zero meridian.
- Bravo - Military abbreviation for IST
- B - short form of 'Bravo'
- Asia/Jerusalem
- Asia/Tel_Aviv
- Israel
- India Standard Time - UTC +5:30
- Irish Standard Time - UTC +1
- Israel Standard Time - UTC +2
- 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