What is WET in CST (China)?
China Standard Time is 7 hours ahead
Western European Time is on UTC+1:00 and China Standard Time is on UTC+8:00 right now. Western European Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read WEST. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Lisbon
- 1:54:11 PM
- Time in Beijing
- 8:54:11 PM
- Difference
- +7 h
- Next clock change
- October 25, 2026
Convert a time
CST — China Standard Time
8:00 pm
CST, Fri
When the difference changes
Western European Time and China Standard 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, 2026China Standard Time is 7 hours ahead
- October 25, 2026 – March 28, 2027China Standard Time is 8 hours ahead
- March 28, 2027 – onwardsChina Standard Time is 7 hours 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.
China Standard Time
China Standard Time stays on CST all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
WET to CST (China) conversion table
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026, converted from Western European Time to China Standard Time. 7 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Beijing, which is marked.
- 12:00 am WEST
- 7:00 am CST
- 1:00 am WEST
- 8:00 am CST
- 2:00 am WEST
- 9:00 am CST
- 3:00 am WEST
- 10:00 am CST
- 4:00 am WEST
- 11:00 am CST
- 5:00 am WEST
- 12:00 pm CST
- 6:00 am WEST
- 1:00 pm CST
- 7:00 am WEST
- 2:00 pm CST
- 8:00 am WEST
- 3:00 pm CST
- 9:00 am WEST
- 4:00 pm CST
- 10:00 am WEST
- 5:00 pm CST
- 11:00 am WEST
- 6:00 pm CST
- 12:00 pm WEST
- 7:00 pm CST
- 1:00 pm WEST
- 8:00 pm CST
- 2:00 pm WEST
- 9:00 pm CST
- 3:00 pm WEST
- 10:00 pm CST
- 4:00 pm WEST
- 11:00 pm CST
- 5:00 pm WEST
- 12:00 am CST+1 day
- 6:00 pm WEST
- 1:00 am CST+1 day
- 7:00 pm WEST
- 2:00 am CST+1 day
- 8:00 pm WEST
- 3:00 am CST+1 day
- 9:00 pm WEST
- 4:00 am CST+1 day
- 10:00 pm WEST
- 5:00 am CST+1 day
- 11:00 pm WEST
- 6:00 am CST+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 11:00 am WEST, which is 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm CST. 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.
Western European Time (WEST) is used in Portugal, Ireland and the Canary Islands
China Standard Time (CST) is used in the whole of China, which runs on one offset from Kashgar to Shanghai
Other conversions
- CST (China) 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 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 ACST
- WET to NZST
- All zones