What is AEST in CET?
Central European Time is 8 hours behind
Australian Eastern Time is on UTC+10:00 and Central European Time is on UTC+2:00 right now. Central European Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read CEST. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Sydney
- 12:14 pm
- Time in Paris
- 4:14 am
- Difference
- −8 h
- Next clock change
- October 3, 2026
Convert a time
CEST — Central European Time
4:00 am
Wed
When the difference changes
Australian Eastern Time and Central European Time do not change their clocks on the same dates, so the gap between them is not the same all year. Most converters show only today’s figure. These are the periods ahead:
- Now – October 3, 2026Central European Time is 8 hours behind
- October 3, 2026 – October 25, 2026Central European Time is 9 hours behind
- October 25, 2026 – March 28, 2027Central European Time is 10 hours behind
- March 28, 2027 – April 3, 2027Central European Time is 9 hours behind
- April 3, 2027 – October 2, 2027Central European Time is 8 hours behind
- October 2, 2027 – onwardsCentral European Time is 9 hours behind
Periods shorter than a day are not listed: both zones change at 2am in their own local time, so there are a few hours on each transition date when the gap is briefly something else.
Daylight saving
Australian Eastern Time
Clocks go forward one hour at 2am local time, becoming AEDT.
Central European Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming CET.
AEST to CET conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from Australian Eastern Time to Central European Time. 8 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Paris, which is marked.
- 12:00 am AEST
- 4:00 pm CEST−1 day
- 1:00 am AEST
- 5:00 pm CEST−1 day
- 2:00 am AEST
- 6:00 pm CEST−1 day
- 3:00 am AEST
- 7:00 pm CEST−1 day
- 4:00 am AEST
- 8:00 pm CEST−1 day
- 5:00 am AEST
- 9:00 pm CEST−1 day
- 6:00 am AEST
- 10:00 pm CEST−1 day
- 7:00 am AEST
- 11:00 pm CEST−1 day
- 8:00 am AEST
- 12:00 am CEST
- 9:00 am AEST
- 1:00 am CEST
- 10:00 am AEST
- 2:00 am CEST
- 11:00 am AEST
- 3:00 am CEST
- 12:00 pm AEST
- 4:00 am CEST
- 1:00 pm AEST
- 5:00 am CEST
- 2:00 pm AEST
- 6:00 am CEST
- 3:00 pm AEST
- 7:00 am CEST
- 4:00 pm AEST
- 8:00 am CEST
- 5:00 pm AEST
- 9:00 am CEST
- 6:00 pm AEST
- 10:00 am CEST
- 7:00 pm AEST
- 11:00 am CEST
- 8:00 pm AEST
- 12:00 pm CEST
- 9:00 pm AEST
- 1:00 pm CEST
- 10:00 pm AEST
- 2:00 pm CEST
- 11:00 pm AEST
- 3:00 pm CEST
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm AEST, which is 9:00 am to 10:00 am CEST. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
Australian Eastern Time (AEST) is used in Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane. Queensland stays on AEST all year while the southern states move to AEDT.
Central European Time (CEST) is used in Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Stockholm