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Western European Summer Time

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Use this WEST Time Converter page to check current local time, UTC and GMT offset, daylight saving details, related time zones, and popular time converter links.

Western European Summer Time

Offset: WEST is 1 hour ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Europe

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

Principal Cities: The largest city in the WEST 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: WESZ - Westeuropäische Sommerzeit

WEST Time Zone Geo Map — WEST timezone map

Daylight Saving: Western European Summer Time (WEST) is a daylight saving/summer time zone. During winter, some places set clocks back one hour and observe Western European Time (WET).

Start: Western European Summer Time (WEST) started on Sunday, March 29, 2026 at 1:00 am01:00 local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 29, 2026, 2:00 am02:00. Daylight saving starts annually on the last Sunday of March.

End: Western European Summer Time (WEST) ends on Sunday, October 25, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, October 25, 2026, 1:00 am01:00 local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually on the last Sunday of October.

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WEST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data

+01 - basic short
+0100 - basic
+01:00 - extended

Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers

+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.

Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others

Alpha - Military abbreviation for WEST
A - short form of 'Alpha'

IANA/Olson: Reflects WEST 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 +1 offset:

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