AWST to AEST: AWST is 2 hours behind AEST
Australian Western Time is 2 hours behind Australian Eastern Time right now. It is 9:01 am AWST in Australian Western and 11:01 am AEST in Australian Eastern.
Convert a specific time from AWST to AEST
Pick any time and date to convert it both ways. The conversion runs in your browser against the real zone rules, so a date inside a daylight saving period gets that period's offset rather than today's.
What is the time difference between AWST and AEST?
Australian Eastern Time is 2 hours ahead of Australian Western Time. To go from AWST to AEST you add 2 hours. That gap is not fixed. Across 2026 the distance between these two zones takes 2 different values, from 2 hours to 3 hours, because Australian Eastern moves its clocks and Australian Western does not. This page recomputes it rather than assuming.
AWST to AEST conversion table
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026 in Australian Western, with the matching reading in Australian Eastern. 2 of the 24 hours land on a different calendar date in Australian Eastern, which is the part people get wrong when they schedule across this pair.
| AWST | AWST 24h | AEST | AEST 24h | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 00:00 | 2:00 am | 02:00 | same day |
| 1:00 am | 01:00 | 3:00 am | 03:00 | same day |
| 2:00 am | 02:00 | 4:00 am | 04:00 | same day |
| 3:00 am | 03:00 | 5:00 am | 05:00 | same day |
| 4:00 am | 04:00 | 6:00 am | 06:00 | same day |
| 5:00 am | 05:00 | 7:00 am | 07:00 | same day |
| 6:00 am | 06:00 | 8:00 am | 08:00 | same day |
| 7:00 am | 07:00 | 9:00 am | 09:00 | same day |
| 8:00 am | 08:00 | 10:00 am | 10:00 | same day |
| 9:00 am | 09:00 | 11:00 am | 11:00 | same day |
| 10:00 am | 10:00 | 12:00 pm | 12:00 | same day |
| 11:00 am | 11:00 | 1:00 pm | 13:00 | same day |
| 12:00 pm | 12:00 | 2:00 pm | 14:00 | same day |
| 1:00 pm | 13:00 | 3:00 pm | 15:00 | same day |
| 2:00 pm | 14:00 | 4:00 pm | 16:00 | same day |
| 3:00 pm | 15:00 | 5:00 pm | 17:00 | same day |
| 4:00 pm | 16:00 | 6:00 pm | 18:00 | same day |
| 5:00 pm | 17:00 | 7:00 pm | 19:00 | same day |
| 6:00 pm | 18:00 | 8:00 pm | 20:00 | same day |
| 7:00 pm | 19:00 | 9:00 pm | 21:00 | same day |
| 8:00 pm | 20:00 | 10:00 pm | 22:00 | same day |
| 9:00 pm | 21:00 | 11:00 pm | 23:00 | same day |
| 10:00 pm | 22:00 | 12:00 am | 00:00 | the next day |
| 11:00 pm | 23:00 | 1:00 am | 01:00 | the next day |
What are the best hours to schedule a call between AWST and AEST?
6 hours of the standard 9:00 am to 5:00 pm working day line up in both zones, from 9:00 am AWST to 3:00 pm AWST. In Australian Eastern that window reads 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. Outside it, one side is either not yet at their desk or already gone.
| AWST | AEST | Working hours | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 am | 11:00 am | both sides | mid morning in Australian Western, mid morning in Australian Eastern |
| 10:00 am | 12:00 pm | both sides | mid morning in Australian Western, noon in Australian Eastern |
| 11:00 am | 1:00 pm | both sides | mid morning in Australian Western, afternoon in Australian Eastern |
| 12:00 pm | 2:00 pm | both sides | noon in Australian Western, afternoon in Australian Eastern |
| 1:00 pm | 3:00 pm | both sides | afternoon in Australian Western, afternoon in Australian Eastern |
| 2:00 pm | 4:00 pm | both sides | afternoon in Australian Western, afternoon in Australian Eastern |
Does daylight saving change AWST to AEST?
Australian Western Time does not move its clocks at all, so its UTC+8 offset holds every day of the year.
Australian Eastern Time is currently on AEST and changes next on Sunday, October 4, 2026, when the clock jumps forward from 1:59 am to 3:00 am and the offset moves from UTC+10 to UTC+11.
Because the two sides do not move together, the answer to this conversion changes during the year. For part of the year the gap is 2 hours and for the rest it is 3 hours. The table above is built for today, not for an average day.
Is AWST ahead of or behind AEST?
AWST is behind AEST by 2 hours: when it is 12:00 pm in Australian Western, it is 2:00 pm in Australian Eastern. One wrinkle worth knowing: AEST and AEDT are two names for the same zone, not two zones. Australian Eastern Time reads AEST in winter and AEDT in summer. When somebody types "awst to aest" they nearly always mean the zone rather than the literal winter offset, so this page resolves AWST to Australia/Perth and AEST to Australia/Sydney and applies whichever offset is genuinely in force on the day.
Australian Western Time covers Perth and Western Australia, which stopped moving its clocks in 2009. Australian Eastern Time covers Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, where summer falls in December. The identifiers behind them are Australia/Perth and Australia/Sydney, which is what any calendar or scheduling system should be storing rather than a fixed number of hours.
Questions
- What is AWST in AEST?
- AWST is 2 hours behind AEST. 9:00 am AWST is 11:00 am AEST.
- How many hours ahead is AEST of AWST?
- AEST is 2 hours ahead of AWST. That varies across the year, between 2 hours and 3 hours.
- What time is it in Australian Eastern right now?
- 11:01 am AEST on Friday, September 25, 2026.
- When can Australian Western and Australian Eastern meet during working hours?
- Between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm AWST, which is 11:00 am to 5:00 pm AEST.
- Does this account for daylight saving?
- Yes. Every reading is computed from the IANA database for the actual date, so AWST and AEST are the abbreviations genuinely in force today rather than a fixed assumption.
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