What is CST (China) in WET?
Western European Time is 7 hours behind
China Standard Time is on UTC+8:00 and Western European Time is on UTC+1:00 right now. Western European Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read WEST. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Beijing
- 8:54:17 PM
- Time in Lisbon
- 1:54:17 PM
- Difference
- −7 h
- Next clock change
- October 25, 2026
Convert a time
WEST — Western European Time
1:00 pm
WEST, Fri
When the difference changes
China Standard Time and Western 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 25, 2026Western European Time is 7 hours behind
- October 25, 2026 – March 28, 2027Western European Time is 8 hours behind
- March 28, 2027 – onwardsWestern European Time is 7 hours behind
Periods shorter than a day are not listed. Each zone changes at its own local time, so on a date when both move there are a few hours when the gap is briefly something else.
Daylight saving
China Standard Time
China Standard Time stays on CST all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
Western European Time
Clocks go back one hour — 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time, and the zone is on WET after that.
CST (China) to WET conversion table
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026, converted from China Standard Time to Western European Time. 7 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Lisbon, which is marked.
- 12:00 am CST
- 5:00 pm WEST−1 day
- 1:00 am CST
- 6:00 pm WEST−1 day
- 2:00 am CST
- 7:00 pm WEST−1 day
- 3:00 am CST
- 8:00 pm WEST−1 day
- 4:00 am CST
- 9:00 pm WEST−1 day
- 5:00 am CST
- 10:00 pm WEST−1 day
- 6:00 am CST
- 11:00 pm WEST−1 day
- 7:00 am CST
- 12:00 am WEST
- 8:00 am CST
- 1:00 am WEST
- 9:00 am CST
- 2:00 am WEST
- 10:00 am CST
- 3:00 am WEST
- 11:00 am CST
- 4:00 am WEST
- 12:00 pm CST
- 5:00 am WEST
- 1:00 pm CST
- 6:00 am WEST
- 2:00 pm CST
- 7:00 am WEST
- 3:00 pm CST
- 8:00 am WEST
- 4:00 pm CST
- 9:00 am WEST
- 5:00 pm CST
- 10:00 am WEST
- 6:00 pm CST
- 11:00 am WEST
- 7:00 pm CST
- 12:00 pm WEST
- 8:00 pm CST
- 1:00 pm WEST
- 9:00 pm CST
- 2:00 pm WEST
- 10:00 pm CST
- 3:00 pm WEST
- 11:00 pm CST
- 4:00 pm WEST
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm CST, which is 9:00 am to 11:00 am WEST. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
A note on CST (China): it can also mean the abbreviation CST is shared with US Central Time and Cuba Standard Time.
China Standard Time (CST) is used in the whole of China, which runs on one offset from Kashgar to Shanghai
Western European Time (WEST) is used in Portugal, Ireland and the Canary Islands
Other conversions
- WET to CST (China)
- CST (China) to UTC
- CST (China) to GMT
- CST (China) to EST
- CST (China) to CST
- CST (China) to MST
- CST (China) to PST
- CST (China) to AKST
- CST (China) to HST
- CST (China) to BST
- CST (China) to CET
- CST (China) to IST
- CST (China) to JST
- CST (China) to AEST
- CST (China) to AST
- CST (China) to Mexico City
- CST (China) to BRT
- CST (China) to ART
- CST (China) to EET
- CST (China) to MSK
- CST (China) to TRT
- CST (China) to SAST
- CST (China) to WAT
- CST (China) to EAT
- CST (China) to GST
- CST (China) to PKT
- CST (China) to ICT
- CST (China) to WIB
- CST (China) to SGT
- CST (China) to HKT
- CST (China) to KST
- CST (China) to PHT
- CST (China) to AWST
- CST (China) to ACST
- CST (China) to NZST
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