What is BST in CET?
Central European Time is 1 hour ahead
British Time is on UTC+1:00 and Central European Time is on UTC+2:00 right now. Both are on daylight saving, so their clocks read BST and CEST. That gap holds all year, because both zones change their clocks together.
- Time in London
- 3:13 am
- Time in Paris
- 4:13 am
- Difference
- +1 h
- Next clock change
- October 25, 2026
Convert a time
CEST — Central European Time
4:00 am
Wed
Daylight saving
British Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming GMT.
Central European Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming CET.
BST to CET conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from British Time to Central European Time. 1 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Paris, which is marked.
- 12:00 am BST
- 1:00 am CEST
- 1:00 am BST
- 2:00 am CEST
- 2:00 am BST
- 3:00 am CEST
- 3:00 am BST
- 4:00 am CEST
- 4:00 am BST
- 5:00 am CEST
- 5:00 am BST
- 6:00 am CEST
- 6:00 am BST
- 7:00 am CEST
- 7:00 am BST
- 8:00 am CEST
- 8:00 am BST
- 9:00 am CEST
- 9:00 am BST
- 10:00 am CEST
- 10:00 am BST
- 11:00 am CEST
- 11:00 am BST
- 12:00 pm CEST
- 12:00 pm BST
- 1:00 pm CEST
- 1:00 pm BST
- 2:00 pm CEST
- 2:00 pm BST
- 3:00 pm CEST
- 3:00 pm BST
- 4:00 pm CEST
- 4:00 pm BST
- 5:00 pm CEST
- 5:00 pm BST
- 6:00 pm CEST
- 6:00 pm BST
- 7:00 pm CEST
- 7:00 pm BST
- 8:00 pm CEST
- 8:00 pm BST
- 9:00 pm CEST
- 9:00 pm BST
- 10:00 pm CEST
- 10:00 pm BST
- 11:00 pm CEST
- 11:00 pm BST
- 12:00 am CEST+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm BST, which is 10:00 am to 6:00 pm CEST. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
A note on BST: it can also mean Bangladesh Standard Time (UTC+6). This page means British Summer Time.
British Time (BST) is used in the whole United Kingdom. In winter the UK is on GMT; from late March to late October it is on BST, an hour ahead.
Central European Time (CEST) is used in Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Stockholm