What is CET in AEST?
Australian Eastern Time is 8 hours ahead
Central European Time is on UTC+2:00 and Australian Eastern Time is on UTC+10:00 right now. Central European Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read CEST. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Paris
- 4:14 am
- Time in Sydney
- 12:14 pm
- Difference
- +8 h
- Next clock change
- October 3, 2026
Convert a time
AEST — Australian Eastern Time
12:00 pm
Wed
When the difference changes
Central European Time and Australian Eastern 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, 2026Australian Eastern Time is 8 hours ahead
- October 3, 2026 – October 25, 2026Australian Eastern Time is 9 hours ahead
- October 25, 2026 – March 28, 2027Australian Eastern Time is 10 hours ahead
- March 28, 2027 – April 3, 2027Australian Eastern Time is 9 hours ahead
- April 3, 2027 – October 2, 2027Australian Eastern Time is 8 hours ahead
- October 2, 2027 – onwardsAustralian Eastern Time is 9 hours ahead
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
Central European Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming CET.
Australian Eastern Time
Clocks go forward one hour at 2am local time, becoming AEDT.
CET to AEST conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from Central European Time to Australian Eastern Time. 8 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Sydney, which is marked.
- 12:00 am CEST
- 8:00 am AEST
- 1:00 am CEST
- 9:00 am AEST
- 2:00 am CEST
- 10:00 am AEST
- 3:00 am CEST
- 11:00 am AEST
- 4:00 am CEST
- 12:00 pm AEST
- 5:00 am CEST
- 1:00 pm AEST
- 6:00 am CEST
- 2:00 pm AEST
- 7:00 am CEST
- 3:00 pm AEST
- 8:00 am CEST
- 4:00 pm AEST
- 9:00 am CEST
- 5:00 pm AEST
- 10:00 am CEST
- 6:00 pm AEST
- 11:00 am CEST
- 7:00 pm AEST
- 12:00 pm CEST
- 8:00 pm AEST
- 1:00 pm CEST
- 9:00 pm AEST
- 2:00 pm CEST
- 10:00 pm AEST
- 3:00 pm CEST
- 11:00 pm AEST
- 4:00 pm CEST
- 12:00 am AEST+1 day
- 5:00 pm CEST
- 1:00 am AEST+1 day
- 6:00 pm CEST
- 2:00 am AEST+1 day
- 7:00 pm CEST
- 3:00 am AEST+1 day
- 8:00 pm CEST
- 4:00 am AEST+1 day
- 9:00 pm CEST
- 5:00 am AEST+1 day
- 10:00 pm CEST
- 6:00 am AEST+1 day
- 11:00 pm CEST
- 7:00 am AEST+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 10:00 am CEST, which is 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm AEST. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
Central European Time (CEST) is used in Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Stockholm
Australian Eastern Time (AEST) is used in Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane. Queensland stays on AEST all year while the southern states move to AEDT.