IST Israel to BST Converter
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2:00 pm14:00 IST (UTC+2), Nov 8, 2026 = 12:00 pm12:00 GMT (UTC+0), Nov 8, 2026
IST is 2 hours ahead of GMT.
IST and BST examples
These examples always use IST (UTC+2) and BST (UTC+1). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.
IST is 1 hour ahead of BST.
How the time difference changes
For most of the year, IDT Israel is 2 hours ahead of BST. From Oct 25, 2026 to Mar 26, 2027, and from Oct 31, 2027 to Mar 24, 2028, IST Israel is 2 hours ahead of GMT. From Mar 26 to Mar 28, 2027, IDT Israel is 3 hours ahead of GMT. Briefly around clock changes, IST Israel is 1 hour ahead of BST.
For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in IDT Israel correspond to 7:00 am to 4:00 pm in BST. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in IST Israel correspond to 7:00 am to 4:00 pm in GMT or working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in IDT Israel correspond to 6:00 am to 3:00 pm in GMT.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in IDT Israel correspond to 07:00 to 16:00 in BST. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in IST Israel correspond to 07:00 to 16:00 in GMT or working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in IDT Israel correspond to 06:00 to 15:00 in GMT.
Compare IST time with BST time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Israel Standard Time is 2 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.
2:00 pm14:00 in IST is 12:00 pm12:00 in GMT
IST to GMT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 11am-6pm11:00-18:00 in IST which corresponds to 9am-4pm09:00-16:00 in GMT.
2:00 pm14:00 Israel Standard Time (IST). Offset UTC +2:00 hours
12:00 pm12:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
2:00 pm14:00 IST / 12:00 pm12:00 GMT
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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
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
Today the shaded areas are on UTC+0 (GMT).
BST 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 an offset of one hour to the east of the zero meridian.
- Alpha - Military abbreviation for BST
- A - short form of 'Alpha'
- Europe/Belfast
- Europe/Guernsey
- Europe/Isle_of_Man
- Europe/Jersey
- Europe/London
- GB
- GB-Eire
- British Summer Time - UTC +1
- Bangladesh Standard Time - UTC +6
- Bougainville Standard Time - UTC +11
- 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