Updating current time…
PT
12am
3am
6am
9am
12pm
3pm
6pm
9pm
WET
12am
3am
6am
9am
12pm
3pm
6pm
9pm

Quick answers

Selected conversion

4:00 am04:00 PT (UTC-8), Nov 3, 2026 = 12:00 pm12:00 WET (UTC+0), Nov 3, 2026

PT is 8 hours behind WET.

How the time difference changes

For most of the year, PT is 8 hours behind WEST. From Nov 1, 2026 to Mar 14, 2027, PT is 8 hours behind WET. From Mar 14 to Mar 28, 2027, and from Oct 31 to Nov 7, 2027, PT is 7 hours behind WET.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in PT correspond to 5:00 pm to 2:00 am (next day) in WEST. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in PT correspond to 5:00 pm to 2:00 am (next day) in WET or working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in PT correspond to 4:00 pm to 1:00 am (next day) in WET.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in PT correspond to 17:00 to 02:00 (next day) in WEST. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in PT correspond to 17:00 to 02:00 (next day) in WET or working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in PT correspond to 16:00 to 01:00 (next day) in WET.

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

Time Difference

Pacific Time is 8 hours behind Western European Time.
4:00 am04:00 in PT is 12:00 pm12:00 in WET

PT to WET call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-10am09:00-10:00 in PT which corresponds to 5pm-6pm17:00-18:00 in WET

4:00 am04:00 Pacific Time (PT). Offset UTC -8:00 hours
12:00 pm12:00 Western European Time (WET). Offset UTC 0:00 hours

4:00 am04:00 PT / 12:00 pm12:00 WET

Choose an hour to update the converter. Day labels such as “next day” or “+1” are relative to the selected date in the first column. Use Up and Down arrow keys, Home or End to move between hours, then Enter or Space to select.

Hourly time comparison
PTWET
8:00am
9:00am
10:00am
11:00am
12:00pm
1:00pm
2:00pm
3:00pm
4:00pm
5:00pm
6:00pm
7:00pm
8:00pm
9:00pm
10:00pm
11:00pm
12:00am next day
1:00am next day
2:00am next day
3:00am next day
4:00am next day
5:00am next day
6:00am next day
7:00am next day
08:00
09:00
10:00
11:00
12:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00
18:00
19:00
20:00
21:00
22:00
23:00
00:00 next day
01:00 next day
02:00 next day
03:00 next day
04:00 next day
05:00 next day
06:00 next day
07:00 next day

Pacific Time

Pacific Time (PT) is a general term used to describe the areas that observe either the Pacific Standard Time (PST) or Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) in North America. PT also called Pacific Coast Time. PT is not static but switches between PDT and PST.

Territories observing the Pacific Time Zone are primarily in North America. It runs through the western United States and the Northwestern part of Mexico. From November 1, 2026, most of British Columbia in Canada keeps UTC-7 all year instead.

Countries using this time zone: Mexico, United States

Principal Cities: The largest city in the PT time zone is Los Angeles in the United States, with about 3.821 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Tijuana, San Diego, Mexicali, San Jose.

French: HNP - Heure Normale du Pacifique

Spanish: PT - Tiempo del Pacífico, PT - Zona Noroeste

PT representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • -08 - basic short
  • -0800 - basic
  • -08:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • -0800 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (08) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of eight hours to the west of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Uniform - Military abbreviation for PT
  • U - short form of 'Uniform'
Time zones with the GMT -8 offset:
  • AKDT - Alaska Daylight Time
  • PST - Pacific Standard Time
  • PT - Pacific Time
  • PST - Pitcairn Standard Time
  • U - Uniform Time Zone

Western European Time

Offset: WET is the same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Faroe Islands, Portugal, Spain

Principal Cities: The largest city in the WET time zone is Lisbon in Portugal, with about 517,802 people. Other major cities in this time zone include Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Porto, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Braga.

German: WEZ - Westeuropäische Zeit

Map of the areas on Western European Time (WET)
WET part of the year

Today all shaded areas are on WET.

Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone. During summer, some places set clocks forward one hour for daylight saving time and observe Western European Summer Time (WEST).

123456789101112Start: Western European Time (WET) 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.

123456789101112End: Western European Time (WET) ends on Sunday, March 28, 2027 at 1:00 am01:00 local time and clocks are set one hour forward to Sunday, March 28, 2027, 2:00 am02:00 local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually on the last Sunday of March.

See Portugal daylight saving time and upcoming clock changes worldwide.

WET 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 WET
  • Z - short form of 'Zulu'
IANA/Olson: Reflects WET time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • Atlantic/Canary
  • Atlantic/Faeroe
  • Atlantic/Faroe
  • Atlantic/Madeira
  • Europe/Lisbon
  • Portugal
  • WET
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 - Coordinated Universal Time
  • WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
  • Z - Zulu Time Zone