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CAT/WAST

Central Africa Time

UTC+2

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9am

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9pm

WAST is not used on this date.

This converter uses CAT (UTC+2), as in Windhoek.

CEST/CET

Central European Summer Time

UTC+2

same time

12am

3am

6am

9am

12pm

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6pm

9pm

Central Europe is on summer time: CEST (UTC+2) until Sun, Oct 25.

Use CET all year (UTC+1)

Quick answers

Selected conversion

2:00 pm14:00 CAT (UTC+2), Oct 18, 2026 = 2:00 pm14:00 CEST (UTC+2), Oct 18, 2026

CAT and CEST have the same local time.

WAST and CET examples

These examples always use WAST (UTC+2) and CET (UTC+1). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.

WAST is 1 hour ahead of CET.

How the time difference changes

For most of the year, CAT and CEST have the same time. From Oct 25, 2026 to Mar 28, 2027, CAT is 1 hour ahead of CET.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in CAT correspond to 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in CEST. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in CAT correspond to 8:00 am to 5:00 pm in CET.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in CAT correspond to 09:00 to 18:00 in CEST. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in CAT correspond to 08:00 to 17:00 in CET.

Compare WAST time with CET time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.

Time Difference

Central Africa Time and Central European Summer Time have the same local time.
2:00 pm14:00 in CAT is 2:00 pm14:00 in CEST

CAT to CEST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-6pm09:00-18:00 in CAT which corresponds to 9am-6pm09:00-18:00 in CEST

2:00 pm14:00 Central Africa Time (CAT). Offset UTC +2:00 hours
2:00 pm14:00 Central European Summer Time (CEST). Offset UTC +2:00 hours

2:00 pm14:00 CAT / 2:00 pm14:00 CEST

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Hourly time comparison
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West Africa Summer Time

Offset: WAST is 2 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

WAST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data

+02 - basic short
+0200 - basic
+02:00 - extended

Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers

+0200 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (02) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of two hours to the east of the zero meridian.

Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others

Bravo - Military abbreviation for WAST
B - short form of 'Bravo'

Time zones with the GMT +2 offset:

CEST - Central European Summer Time
EET - Eastern European Time
MESZ - Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
B - Bravo Time Zone
CAT - Central Africa Time
IST - Israel Standard Time
SAST - South Africa Standard Time
WAST - West Africa Summer Time

Central European Time

Offset: CET is 1 hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Vatican City

Principal Cities: The largest city in the CET time zone is Berlin in Germany, with about 3.426 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Madrid, Algiers, Rome, Paris.

German: MEZ - Mitteleuropäische Zeit

Map of the areas on Central European Time (CET) — CET all year CET part of the year
Today the lighter areas are on UTC+2 (CEST).
Open the world time zone map © OpenStreetMap

Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone. During summer, some places set clocks forward one hour for daylight saving time and observe Central European Summer Time (CEST).

End: Central European Time (CET) ended on Sunday, March 29, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 29, 2026, 3:00 am03:00 local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually on the last Sunday of March.

Start: Central European Time (CET) starts on Sunday, October 25, 2026 at 3:00 am03:00 local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, October 25, 2026, 2:00 am02:00. Standard time starts annually on the last Sunday of October.

See upcoming clock changes worldwide.

CET representations, usage and related time zones