What is CET in BRT?
Brasília Time is 5 hours behind
Central European Time is on UTC+2:00 and Brasília Time is on UTC−3:00 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
- 4:56 am
- Time in São Paulo
- 11:56 pm
- Difference
- −5 h
- Next clock change
- October 25, 2026
Convert a time
BRT — Brasília Time
11:00 pm
Tue, the previous day
When the difference changes
Central European Time and Brasília 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 25, 2026Brasília Time is 5 hours behind
- October 25, 2026 – March 28, 2027Brasília Time is 4 hours behind
- March 28, 2027 – onwardsBrasília Time is 5 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
Central European Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming CET.
Brasília Time
Brasília Time stays on BRT all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
CET to BRT conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from Central European Time to Brasília Time. 5 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in São Paulo, which is marked.
- 12:00 am CEST
- 7:00 pm BRT−1 day
- 1:00 am CEST
- 8:00 pm BRT−1 day
- 2:00 am CEST
- 9:00 pm BRT−1 day
- 3:00 am CEST
- 10:00 pm BRT−1 day
- 4:00 am CEST
- 11:00 pm BRT−1 day
- 5:00 am CEST
- 12:00 am BRT
- 6:00 am CEST
- 1:00 am BRT
- 7:00 am CEST
- 2:00 am BRT
- 8:00 am CEST
- 3:00 am BRT
- 9:00 am CEST
- 4:00 am BRT
- 10:00 am CEST
- 5:00 am BRT
- 11:00 am CEST
- 6:00 am BRT
- 12:00 pm CEST
- 7:00 am BRT
- 1:00 pm CEST
- 8:00 am BRT
- 2:00 pm CEST
- 9:00 am BRT
- 3:00 pm CEST
- 10:00 am BRT
- 4:00 pm CEST
- 11:00 am BRT
- 5:00 pm CEST
- 12:00 pm BRT
- 6:00 pm CEST
- 1:00 pm BRT
- 7:00 pm CEST
- 2:00 pm BRT
- 8:00 pm CEST
- 3:00 pm BRT
- 9:00 pm CEST
- 4:00 pm BRT
- 10:00 pm CEST
- 5:00 pm BRT
- 11:00 pm CEST
- 6:00 pm BRT
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm CEST, which is 9:00 am to 1:00 pm BRT. 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
Brasília Time (BRT) is used in Rio de Janeiro and Brasília. Brazil ended daylight saving in 2019.