WEST to EEST: WEST is 2 hours behind EEST
Western European Time is 2 hours behind Eastern European Time, on every day of the year. It is 4:44 am WEST in Lisbon and 6:44 am EEST in Eastern European.
Convert a specific time from WEST to EEST
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 WEST and EEST?
Eastern European Time is 2 hours ahead of Western European Time. To go from WEST to EEST you add 2 hours. That gap holds on all 365 days of 2026: both zones move their clocks, but on the same dates and in the same direction, so the distance between them never changes.
WEST to EEST conversion table
Every hour of Sunday, September 27, 2026 in Lisbon, with the matching reading in Eastern European. 2 of the 24 hours land on a different calendar date in Eastern European, which is the part people get wrong when they schedule across this pair.
| WEST | WEST 24h | EEST | EEST 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 WEST and EEST?
6 hours of the standard 9:00 am to 5:00 pm working day line up in both zones, from 9:00 am WEST to 3:00 pm WEST. In Eastern European that window reads 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. Outside it, one side is either not yet at their desk or already gone.
| WEST | EEST | Working hours | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 am | 11:00 am | both sides | mid morning in Lisbon, mid morning in Eastern European |
| 10:00 am | 12:00 pm | both sides | mid morning in Lisbon, noon in Eastern European |
| 11:00 am | 1:00 pm | both sides | mid morning in Lisbon, afternoon in Eastern European |
| 12:00 pm | 2:00 pm | both sides | noon in Lisbon, afternoon in Eastern European |
| 1:00 pm | 3:00 pm | both sides | afternoon in Lisbon, afternoon in Eastern European |
| 2:00 pm | 4:00 pm | both sides | afternoon in Lisbon, afternoon in Eastern European |
Does daylight saving change WEST to EEST?
Western European Time is currently on WEST and changes next on Sunday, October 25, 2026, when the clock falls back from 1:59 am to 1:00 am and the offset moves from UTC+1 to UTC+0.
Eastern European Time is currently on EEST and changes next on Sunday, October 25, 2026, when the clock falls back from 3:59 am to 3:00 am and the offset moves from UTC+3 to UTC+2.
Is WEST ahead of or behind EEST?
WEST is behind EEST by 2 hours: when it is 12:00 pm in Lisbon, it is 2:00 pm in Eastern European. One wrinkle worth knowing: WET and WEST are two names for the same zone, not two zones. Western European Time reads WET in winter and WEST in summer. When somebody types "wet to eet" they nearly always mean the zone rather than the literal winter offset, so this page resolves WET to Europe/Lisbon and EET to Europe/Athens and applies whichever offset is genuinely in force on the day.
Western European Time covers Lisbon, Porto and the Canary Islands, one hour behind most of the continent. Eastern European Time covers Athens, Helsinki, Bucharest and Kyiv. The identifiers behind them are Europe/Lisbon and Europe/Athens, which is what any calendar or scheduling system should be storing rather than a fixed number of hours.
Questions
- What is WEST in EEST?
- WEST is 2 hours behind EEST. 9:00 am WEST is 11:00 am EEST.
- How many hours ahead is EEST of WEST?
- EEST is 2 hours ahead of WEST.
- What time is it in Eastern European right now?
- 6:44 am EEST on Sunday, September 27, 2026.
- When can Lisbon and Eastern European meet during working hours?
- Between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm WEST, which is 11:00 am to 5:00 pm EEST.
- Does this account for daylight saving?
- Yes. Every reading is computed from the IANA database for the actual date, so WEST and EEST are the abbreviations genuinely in force today rather than a fixed assumption.
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