What is WET in ACST?
Australian Central Time is 8 hours 30 minutes ahead
Western European Time is on UTC+1:00 and Australian Central Time is on UTC+9:30 right now. Western European Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read WEST. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Lisbon
- 1:53:16 PM
- Time in Adelaide
- 10:23:16 PM
- Difference
- +8:30 h
- Next clock change
- October 4, 2026
Convert a time
ACST — Australian Central Time
9:30 pm
ACST, Fri
When the difference changes
Western European Time and Australian Central 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 Central Time is 8 hours 30 minutes ahead
- October 3, 2026 – October 25, 2026Australian Central Time is 9 hours 30 minutes ahead
- October 25, 2026 – March 28, 2027Australian Central Time is 10 hours 30 minutes ahead
- March 28, 2027 – April 3, 2027Australian Central Time is 9 hours 30 minutes ahead
- April 3, 2027 – October 2, 2027Australian Central Time is 8 hours 30 minutes ahead
- October 2, 2027 – onwardsAustralian Central Time is 9 hours 30 minutes ahead
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
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.
Australian Central Time
Clocks go forward one hour — 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time, and the zone is on ACDT after that.
WET to ACST conversion table
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026, converted from Western European Time to Australian Central Time. 8 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Adelaide, which is marked.
- 12:00 am WEST
- 8:30 am ACST
- 1:00 am WEST
- 9:30 am ACST
- 2:00 am WEST
- 10:30 am ACST
- 3:00 am WEST
- 11:30 am ACST
- 4:00 am WEST
- 12:30 pm ACST
- 5:00 am WEST
- 1:30 pm ACST
- 6:00 am WEST
- 2:30 pm ACST
- 7:00 am WEST
- 3:30 pm ACST
- 8:00 am WEST
- 4:30 pm ACST
- 9:00 am WEST
- 5:30 pm ACST
- 10:00 am WEST
- 6:30 pm ACST
- 11:00 am WEST
- 7:30 pm ACST
- 12:00 pm WEST
- 8:30 pm ACST
- 1:00 pm WEST
- 9:30 pm ACST
- 2:00 pm WEST
- 10:30 pm ACST
- 3:00 pm WEST
- 11:30 pm ACST
- 4:00 pm WEST
- 12:30 am ACST+1 day
- 5:00 pm WEST
- 1:30 am ACST+1 day
- 6:00 pm WEST
- 2:30 am ACST+1 day
- 7:00 pm WEST
- 3:30 am ACST+1 day
- 8:00 pm WEST
- 4:30 am ACST+1 day
- 9:00 pm WEST
- 5:30 am ACST+1 day
- 10:00 pm WEST
- 6:30 am ACST+1 day
- 11:00 pm WEST
- 7:30 am ACST+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 10:00 am WEST, which is 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm ACST. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
Western European Time (WEST) is used in Portugal, Ireland and the Canary Islands
Australian Central Time (ACST) is used in South Australia and the Northern Territory, on a half-hour offset from the east coast
Other conversions
- ACST to WET
- WET to UTC
- WET to GMT
- WET to EST
- WET to CST
- WET to MST
- WET to PST
- WET to AKST
- WET to HST
- WET to BST
- WET to CET
- WET to IST
- WET to CST (China)
- WET to JST
- WET to AEST
- WET to AST
- WET to Mexico City
- WET to BRT
- WET to ART
- WET to EET
- WET to MSK
- WET to TRT
- WET to SAST
- WET to WAT
- WET to EAT
- WET to GST
- WET to PKT
- WET to ICT
- WET to WIB
- WET to SGT
- WET to HKT
- WET to KST
- WET to PHT
- WET to AWST
- WET to NZST
- All zones