WEST to UTC Converter

Time Difference

Western European Summer Time is 1 hour ahead of Universal Time Coordinated
So 3:00 am03:00 in WEST is 2:00 am02:00 in UTC

3:00 am03:00 Western European Summer Time (WEST). Offset UTC +1:00 hour
2:00 am02:00 Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). Offset UTC 0:00 hours

3:00 am03:00 WEST / 2:00 am02:00 UTC

Western European Summer Time

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

Countries: It is used in following countries: Spain, Faroe Islands, Portugal

Principal Cities: The largest city in the WEST timezone is Lisbon from Portugal with population about 517802 people. Other major cities in the area are Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Porto, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Amadora

Daylight Saving: Western European Summer Time (WEST) is a daylight saving/summer timezone, however during winter some places adjust time for one hour back and observe Western European Time (WET).

End: WEST ends annually on the same date and time. and clocks were set one hour back on Sunday, October 27, 2019, at 2:00 (2:00 am) local time.

Start: WEST starts annually on the same date and time. and clocks are set one hour forward on Sunday, March 29, 2020, at 1:00 (1:00 am) local time.

German: WESZ - Westeuropäische Sommerzeit

WEST 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 one hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.

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

• 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
• +01 -

Universal Time Coordinated

Offset: UTC is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Universal

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the world time standard that regulates clocks and time. It is successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). For casual use, UTC is the same as GMT, but is used by the scientific community.
UTC is the time standard commonly used across the world since 1972. It is used in many technical fields, like aviation industry and meteorologists, also used to synchronize time across internet networks.

UTC 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 zero hour and zero minutes time differences of the zero meridian.

• Zulu - Military abbreviation for UTC
• Z - short form of 'Zulu'

• Etc/UTC
• Etc/Universal
• Etc/Zulu
• UTC
• Universal
• Zulu

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 - Universal Time Coordinated
• WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
• Z - Zulu Time Zone
• +00 -