SAST to AWST Converter
Time Difference
South Africa Standard Time is 6 hours behind Australian Western Standard Time
6:00 am06:00 in SAST is 12:00 pm12:00 in AWST
SAST to AWST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-12pm in SAST which corresponds to 2pm-6pm in AWST
6:00 am06:00 South Africa Standard Time (SAST). Offset UTC +2:00 hours
12:00 pm12:00 Australian Western Standard Time (AWST). Offset UTC +8:00 hours
6:00 am06:00 SAST / 12:00 pm12:00 AWST
SAST | AWST |
---|---|
12am (midnight) | 6am |
1am | 7am |
2am | 8am |
3am | 9am |
4am | 10am |
5am | 11am |
6am | 12pm (noon) |
7am | 1pm |
8am | 2pm |
9am | 3pm |
10am | 4pm |
11am | 5pm |
12pm (noon) | 6pm |
1pm | 7pm |
2pm | 8pm |
3pm | 9pm |
4pm | 10pm |
5pm | 11pm |
6pm | 12am (midnight) |
7pm | 1am |
8pm | 2am |
9pm | 3am |
10pm | 4am |
11pm | 5am |
0:00 | 6:00 |
1:00 | 7:00 |
2:00 | 8:00 |
3:00 | 9:00 |
4:00 | 10:00 |
5:00 | 11:00 |
6:00 | 12:00 |
7:00 | 13:00 |
8:00 | 14:00 |
9:00 | 15:00 |
10:00 | 16:00 |
11:00 | 17:00 |
12:00 | 18:00 |
13:00 | 19:00 |
14:00 | 20:00 |
15:00 | 21:00 |
16:00 | 22:00 |
17:00 | 23:00 |
18:00 | 0:00 |
19:00 | 1:00 |
20:00 | 2:00 |
21:00 | 3:00 |
22:00 | 4:00 |
23:00 | 5:00 |
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
Australian Western Standard Time
Offset: AWST is 8 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Australia
Countries: It is used in following countries: Australia
Principal Cities: The largest city in the AWST timezone is Perth from Australia with population about 1.897 million people. Other major cities in the area are Rockingham, Mandurah, Bunbury, Armadale
Daylight Saving: Australian Western Standard Time (AWST) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore AWST 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, Australian Western Standard Time remains the same

AWST representations, usage and related time zones
- +08 - basic short
- +0800 - basic
- +08:00 - extended
- +0800 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (08) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates eight hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
- Hotel - Military abbreviation for AWST
- H - short form of 'Hotel'
- Australia/Perth
- Australia/West
- ACT - ASEAN Common Time
- AWST - Australian Western Standard Time
- BNT - Brunei Darussalam Time
- CAST - Casey Time
- CHOT - Choibalsan Time
- CST - China Standard Time
- H - Hotel Time Zone
- HKT - Hong Kong Time
- HOVST - Hovd Summer Time
- IRKT - Irkutsk Time
- KRAST - Krasnoyarsk Summer Time
- MYT - Malaysia Time
- PHT - Philippine Time
- SGT - Singapore Time
- ULAT - Ulaanbaatar Time
- WITA - Central Indonesian Time