AWST to KST: AWST is 1 hour behind KST
Australian Western Time is 1 hour behind Korea Standard Time, on every day of the year. It is 6:09 pm AWST in Australian Western and 7:09 pm KST in Korea.
Convert a specific time from AWST to KST
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 KST?
Korea Standard Time is 1 hour ahead of Australian Western Time. To go from AWST to KST you add 1 hour. That gap holds on all 365 days of 2026: neither zone moves its clocks.
AWST to KST conversion table
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026 in Australian Western, with the matching reading in Korea. 1 of the 24 hours land on a different calendar date in Korea, which is the part people get wrong when they schedule across this pair.
| AWST | AWST 24h | KST | KST 24h | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 00:00 | 1:00 am | 01:00 | same day |
| 1:00 am | 01:00 | 2:00 am | 02:00 | same day |
| 2:00 am | 02:00 | 3:00 am | 03:00 | same day |
| 3:00 am | 03:00 | 4:00 am | 04:00 | same day |
| 4:00 am | 04:00 | 5:00 am | 05:00 | same day |
| 5:00 am | 05:00 | 6:00 am | 06:00 | same day |
| 6:00 am | 06:00 | 7:00 am | 07:00 | same day |
| 7:00 am | 07:00 | 8:00 am | 08:00 | same day |
| 8:00 am | 08:00 | 9:00 am | 09:00 | same day |
| 9:00 am | 09:00 | 10:00 am | 10:00 | same day |
| 10:00 am | 10:00 | 11:00 am | 11:00 | same day |
| 11:00 am | 11:00 | 12:00 pm | 12:00 | same day |
| 12:00 pm | 12:00 | 1:00 pm | 13:00 | same day |
| 1:00 pm | 13:00 | 2:00 pm | 14:00 | same day |
| 2:00 pm | 14:00 | 3:00 pm | 15:00 | same day |
| 3:00 pm | 15:00 | 4:00 pm | 16:00 | same day |
| 4:00 pm | 16:00 | 5:00 pm | 17:00 | same day |
| 5:00 pm | 17:00 | 6:00 pm | 18:00 | same day |
| 6:00 pm | 18:00 | 7:00 pm | 19:00 | same day |
| 7:00 pm | 19:00 | 8:00 pm | 20:00 | same day |
| 8:00 pm | 20:00 | 9:00 pm | 21:00 | same day |
| 9:00 pm | 21:00 | 10:00 pm | 22:00 | same day |
| 10:00 pm | 22:00 | 11:00 pm | 23:00 | same day |
| 11:00 pm | 23:00 | 12:00 am | 00:00 | the next day |
What are the best hours to schedule a call between AWST and KST?
7 hours of the standard 9:00 am to 5:00 pm working day line up in both zones, from 9:00 am AWST to 4:00 pm AWST. In Korea that window reads 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Outside it, one side is either not yet at their desk or already gone.
| AWST | KST | Working hours | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 am | 10:00 am | both sides | mid morning in Australian Western, mid morning in Korea |
| 10:00 am | 11:00 am | both sides | mid morning in Australian Western, mid morning in Korea |
| 11:00 am | 12:00 pm | both sides | mid morning in Australian Western, noon in Korea |
| 12:00 pm | 1:00 pm | both sides | noon in Australian Western, afternoon in Korea |
| 1:00 pm | 2:00 pm | both sides | afternoon in Australian Western, afternoon in Korea |
| 2:00 pm | 3:00 pm | both sides | afternoon in Australian Western, afternoon in Korea |
| 3:00 pm | 4:00 pm | both sides | afternoon in Australian Western, afternoon in Korea |
Does daylight saving change AWST to KST?
Australian Western Time does not move its clocks at all, so its UTC+8 offset holds every day of the year.
Korea Standard Time does not move its clocks at all, so its UTC+9 offset holds every day of the year.
Is AWST ahead of or behind KST?
AWST is behind KST by 1 hour: when it is 12:00 pm in Australian Western, it is 1:00 pm in Korea. Neither Australian Western Time nor Korea Standard Time observes daylight saving, so the abbreviations never change and the gap between them is fixed.
Australian Western Time covers Perth and Western Australia, which stopped moving its clocks in 2009. Korea Standard Time covers Seoul and South Korea. The identifiers behind them are Australia/Perth and Asia/Seoul, which is what any calendar or scheduling system should be storing rather than a fixed number of hours.
Questions
- What is AWST in KST?
- AWST is 1 hour behind KST. 9:00 am AWST is 10:00 am KST.
- How many hours ahead is KST of AWST?
- KST is 1 hour ahead of AWST.
- What time is it in Korea right now?
- 7:09 pm KST on Friday, September 25, 2026.
- When can Australian Western and Korea meet during working hours?
- Between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm AWST, which is 10:00 am to 5:00 pm KST.
- Does this account for daylight saving?
- Yes. Every reading is computed from the IANA database for the actual date, so AWST and KST are the abbreviations genuinely in force today rather than a fixed assumption.
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