Convert EET to WET Eastern European Time ↔ Western European Time Free Online Secure
Type a time in EET and read it in WET straight away. The offset is −2 h, the arithmetic wraps at midnight, and the answer says which day it lands on.
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Through the day — Convert EET to WET (Eastern European Time ↔ Western European Time)
| EET | WET |
|---|---|
| 00:00 | 22:00 |
| 03:00 | 01:00 |
| 06:00 | 04:00 |
| 09:00 | 07:00 |
| 12:00 | 10:00 |
| 15:00 | 13:00 |
| 18:00 | 16:00 |
| 21:00 | 19:00 |
Where these units come from
Until the middle of the nineteenth century every town kept its own noon, set by the sun overhead, and nobody minded that the next town was four minutes behind. Railways ended that: a timetable cannot be written for a hundred local noons. Britain put its railways on Greenwich time in 1847, and in 1884 the International Meridian Conference in Washington chose Greenwich as the prime meridian and sketched the twenty-four-hour scheme we still use. Greenwich Mean Time was the world's reference until 1972, when Coordinated Universal Time replaced it: UTC is kept by atomic clocks and tied back to the turning Earth by leap seconds. The abbreviations on this page name standard time — the winter setting — which is why each one is a fixed number of hours rather than something that drifts through the year.
Where you meet them
A time zone becomes real the moment two people in different places have to agree on one moment: a call between offices, a flight that lands before it took off, a market that opens while you are asleep, a deadline written in somebody else's afternoon. Server logs, train and flight schedules and anything stamped with a time are kept in UTC precisely so that the question can always be settled, no matter whose clock was on the wall.
Questions people ask
What about summer time?
The offsets here are standard-time offsets, the ones a zone keeps in winter. Where summer time is observed, the same places move one hour further on for part of the year and take a different name: Central European Time becomes Central European Summer Time, Eastern Standard Time becomes Eastern Daylight Time. The switching dates are not the same in every country, and the two hemispheres change in opposite months, so for a date inside a summer-time period add an hour to whichever side observes it.
Why isn't every difference a whole number of hours?
Because offsets are decided by governments, not by geometry. India is half an hour off the hour, at UTC+05:30; Nepal is three quarters, at UTC+05:45; the Chatham Islands are at UTC+12:45. Any of these can be changed by law, and several countries have moved their offset within living memory.
Is the answer exact?
Where both units are defined in terms of one another by whole numbers, yes — the page says so above the figure, and the only rounding is in how many digits are shown. Where the ratio has no finite decimal, the page shows twelve significant digits and says the relation is approximate rather than pretending otherwise.
Does anything I type leave my device?
No. The arithmetic runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded and there is no server to upload it to. Load the page once and it keeps working with the network switched off.
The Greek elections and the clock in London
Polling stations in Greece close at 19:00. The main stage of a festival in Cluj opens at 22:00. The Romanian prime minister holds a press conference at 13:00. A reader in London, Dublin or Lisbon who meets those hours has to convert EET to WET, and on standard time the rule is: take away two hours. 19:00 EET becomes 17:00 WET, 22:00 EET becomes 20:00 WET, and 13:00 EET becomes 11:00 WET. Any Eastern European time before 02:00 belongs to the previous day in London. The two-hour gap is the same in every month, because the clocks of Greece, Romania, Britain and Portugal jump together in the small hours of the last Sunday of March and of October.
Below you will find the working rule, lookup tables and a profile of each zone, then scenes from elections, festivals, church calendars and airports. The sums run locally on your device and no value is sent anywhere.
The elections in Greece
Closing of the polls
Polling stations close at 19:00 EEST, which is 17:00 BST in summer. British correspondents receive the first projections at the end of the afternoon, just before dinner.
The results
The first official estimate appears shortly after closing, around 19:30 EEST, which is 17:30 BST. A “convert EET to WET” calculation shows at once that it falls in the London working day.
The Untold festival in Cluj
The main stage
The biggest artists take the stage around 22:00 EEST, which is 20:00 BST. British audiences watch live at dinner time.
Concerts after midnight
A concert that starts at 00:30 EEST starts at 22:30 BST on the previous evening. Whoever does a “convert EET to WET” calculation with the date in view does not mix up the day.
Romanian government press conferences
The time of the announcement
A press conference scheduled for 13:00 EET is at 11:00 WET. Correspondents in London follow it live in mid-morning.
Evening statements
A statement at 20:00 EET is at 18:00 WET. For Britons it is a broadcast from the end of the working day.
Epiphany in Thessaloniki
The immersion of the cross
The 6 January ceremony, in which the cross is thrown into the sea, takes place around 12:00 EET, which is 10:00 GMT. Greeks in London watch it live in the morning.
The morning service
The church service, from 09:00 EET, is at 07:00 GMT. A “convert EET to WET” calculation shows at once that it falls at the dawn of the British day.
Greece’s “No” Day
The 28 October parade
The parade in Thessaloniki starts at 10:00 EET, which is 08:00 GMT, because on 28 October Greece and Britain are both on winter time. The Greek community in London follows it from the morning.
The holiday evening
Evening concerts, from 20:00 EET, are at 18:00 GMT. A “convert EET to WET” calculation shows at once that they fall at the end of the London day.
The Song Festival in Estonia
The choirs in Tallinn
The great choir concert begins in the evening, at 19:00 EEST, which is 17:00 BST. Estonians in London watch live toward the end of the working day.
The night of song
The finale at 22:00 EEST is at 20:00 BST. Whoever does a “convert EET to WET” calculation knows that it falls at the British dinner hour.
Flights between Larnaca and London
The morning flight
A flight from Larnaca to London that leaves at 07:00 EET and takes nearly five hours lands at 12:00 EET, which is 10:00 GMT. The ticket shows 07:00 and 10:00, as for a flight of three hours, although it lasts nearly five.
The evening flight
A flight from London to Larnaca that leaves at 17:00 GMT and takes nearly four and a half hours lands at 21:30 GMT, which is 23:30 EET. A “convert EET to WET” calculation shows the hour at which someone is waiting at the airport.
How to convert EET to WET, in three steps
Take away two hours
Eastern Europe runs at UTC+2 and London, Dublin and Lisbon at UTC+0 in winter. Write the Romanian or Greek time on a 24-hour clock and deduct 2 from it.
Correct the date
A negative result calls for the previous day: add 24. That happens between 00:00 and 01:59: 01:30 EET is 23:30 WET yesterday, and 00:15 EET is 22:15 WET yesterday.
Check against known values
02:00 EET is 00:00 WET. 05:15 EET is 03:15 WET. 09:00 EET is 07:00 WET. 12:45 EET is 10:45 WET. 16:00 EET is 14:00 WET. 20:30 EET is 18:30 WET. 23:15 EET is 21:15 WET. On summer time, 22:00 EEST is 20:00 WEST.
Eastern Europe's clocks
Who counts as EET
Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Moldova read UTC+2 in winter and UTC+3 in summer, when the label becomes EEST.
Egypt
Egypt sits on EET and fixes its own summer period. Against London it is two hours away in winter, one hour between 29 March and 23 April, and three hours between 25 and 29 October.
Western Europe in brief
Who keeps WET
Mainland Portugal, Madeira, the Canaries and the Faroes run on WET (UTC+0), while the United Kingdom and Ireland use the same offset under the name GMT. All advance an hour in summer.
Iceland and the Azores
Iceland stays on UTC+0 all year, so against Eastern Europe it is two hours away in winter and three in summer. The Azores are three hours behind all year.
Two hours between two desks
Overlapping working days
When a Bucharest team sits down at 09:00, London reads 07:00; when the team leaves at 17:00, London reads 15:00. Seen from Romania, a London nine-to-five runs from 11:00 to 19:00. Six hours are shared, from 11:00 to 17:00 EET.
Choosing the moment to call
Phoning London at 10:00 EET means 08:00 there, early for most offices. Phoning at 15:00 EET means 13:00, the usual lunch break.
A hop to Portugal
A plane that leaves Bucharest at 10:00 EET and flies for nearly four hours touches down at 14:00 EET, which is 12:00 on Lisbon clocks. The ticket reads 10:00 and 12:00, as for a trip of two hours.
The same Romanian hour, six Wednesdays
Mid-January
Wednesday 14 January: 18:00 EET is 16:00 GMT, with both zones on standard time.
Across the March change
Wednesday 25 March: 18:00 EET is still 16:00 GMT. On Sunday 29 March, at 01:00 UTC, both clocks advance together, and Wednesday 1 April gives 18:00 EEST against 16:00 BST. The gap did not move.
High summer
Wednesday 12 August: 18:00 EEST is 16:00 BST, because both zones are on summer time.
After the autumn change
Wednesday 28 October, three days after both zones went back, gives 18:00 EET against 16:00 GMT. So does Wednesday 16 December.
Iceland: two hours in winter, three in summer
A clock that does not move
Iceland stays on UTC+0 all year. When it is 14:00 in Romania, it is 12:00 in Reykjavik in winter and 11:00 in summer.
How to correct
A “convert EET to WET” calculation made for Iceland with the two-hour figure gives, in summer, a result an hour too high. The correction is simple: subtract another hour between 29 March and 24 October.
Developer teams between Bucharest and Lisbon
The joint meeting
A team with members in Bucharest and Lisbon meets at 11:00 EET, which is 09:00 WET. For the Romanians it is the third working hour, for the Portuguese the first.
What stays in writing
Work that ends at 17:00 EET reaches Lisbon at 15:00 WET, in the middle of the Portuguese day. A written handover keeps the thread.
Other European clocks, read from Bucharest
A quick conversion ladder
Relative to Romanian time, Berlin and Vienna are one hour behind and London and Lisbon two. Reykjavik is two behind in winter and three in summer, while Moscow is one ahead in winter.
One moment, four cities
When Bucharest reads 12:00, Berlin reads 11:00, London 10:00 and Moscow 13:00. A calendar invitation that lists all four spares readers from having to convert EET to WET themselves.
Romanian students at Portuguese universities
Lessons
A lesson at 10:00 WET is at 12:00 EET. Students in Romania follow it toward noon.
Submission deadlines
A deadline of 23:59 EET is at 21:59 WET the same day. Whoever counts the deadline by Portuguese midnight actually has two hours more.
Eastern European weather, read in Portugal
Warnings
A frost warning valid until 18:00 EET expires at 16:00 WET. Readers in Portugal following the situation of relatives in Romania subtract two hours from every hour in the bulletin.
How to read it
Each bulletin carries the local time of Romania. A “convert EET to WET” calculation for both times shows when the latest version appeared.
Romanian radio followed in Britain
The morning programme
A programme broadcast from 07:00 to 10:00 EET is from 05:00 to 08:00 GMT. Romanians in Britain catch it on the way to work.
The evening bulletin
The 19:00 EET bulletin is at 17:00 GMT. A “convert EET to WET” calculation shows at once that in Britain it falls at the end of the working day.
Bank cut-off times between Romania and Britain
The payment deadline
A bank in Bucharest that accepts same-day international orders until 16:00 EET stops at 14:00 WET on the London clock. A sender in Britain who submits an order at 14:30 WET has therefore already missed it, since it is 16:30 EET in Romania.
Invoices and dates
An invoice stamped 00:30 EET on 1 July was issued at 22:30 WET on 30 June by London time. A “convert EET to WET” calculation that shows the date as well as the hour tells you which month the document belongs to.
Why the gap is dependable
Because Romania and Britain change their clocks on the same night, the two-hour difference holds in every week of the year. A payment schedule written in March is still valid in October.
Summer time and this pair
The 2026 calendar
Both zones change their clocks together, so EET and WET stay 2 hours apart in every season; only the labels change, to EEST and WEST in summer.
In practice
In 2026 the European clocks change on 29 March and 25 October, and the American ones on 8 March and 1 November. Nothing about the sum changes with the season when you convert EET to WET.
All twenty-four hours side by side
EET against WET
00:00 EET corresponds to 22:00 WET (previous day). 01:00 EET corresponds to 23:00 WET (previous day). 02:00 EET corresponds to 00:00 WET. 03:00 EET corresponds to 01:00 WET. 04:00 EET corresponds to 02:00 WET. 05:00 EET corresponds to 03:00 WET. 06:00 EET corresponds to 04:00 WET. 07:00 EET corresponds to 05:00 WET. 08:00 EET corresponds to 06:00 WET. 09:00 EET corresponds to 07:00 WET. 10:00 EET corresponds to 08:00 WET. 11:00 EET corresponds to 09:00 WET. 12:00 EET corresponds to 10:00 WET. 13:00 EET corresponds to 11:00 WET. 14:00 EET corresponds to 12:00 WET. 15:00 EET corresponds to 13:00 WET. 16:00 EET corresponds to 14:00 WET. 17:00 EET corresponds to 15:00 WET. 18:00 EET corresponds to 16:00 WET. 19:00 EET corresponds to 17:00 WET. 20:00 EET corresponds to 18:00 WET. 21:00 EET corresponds to 19:00 WET. 22:00 EET corresponds to 20:00 WET. 23:00 EET corresponds to 21:00 WET.
Notes on the table
The table lists the full day. Where the WET date differs from the EET date, the entry says so. Use it as a reference whenever you convert EET to WET. Minutes are not affected here. A different minute figure in an answer is a sign of a slip.
The :30 rows
EET to WET, thirty minutes past
00:30 EET corresponds to 22:30 WET (previous day). 01:30 EET corresponds to 23:30 WET (previous day). 02:30 EET corresponds to 00:30 WET. 03:30 EET corresponds to 01:30 WET. 04:30 EET corresponds to 02:30 WET. 05:30 EET corresponds to 03:30 WET. 06:30 EET corresponds to 04:30 WET. 07:30 EET corresponds to 05:30 WET. 08:30 EET corresponds to 06:30 WET. 09:30 EET corresponds to 07:30 WET. 10:30 EET corresponds to 08:30 WET. 11:30 EET corresponds to 09:30 WET. 12:30 EET corresponds to 10:30 WET. 13:30 EET corresponds to 11:30 WET. 14:30 EET corresponds to 12:30 WET. 15:30 EET corresponds to 13:30 WET. 16:30 EET corresponds to 14:30 WET. 17:30 EET corresponds to 15:30 WET. 18:30 EET corresponds to 16:30 WET. 19:30 EET corresponds to 17:30 WET. 20:30 EET corresponds to 18:30 WET. 21:30 EET corresponds to 19:30 WET. 22:30 EET corresponds to 20:30 WET. 23:30 EET corresponds to 21:30 WET.
Purpose of the list
These are the readings people forget to check: events at :30. Look up the EET time and read the WET time beside it instead of repeating the calculation.
Conversions with minutes
EET into WET
01:05 EET corresponds to 23:05 WET (previous day). 03:20 EET corresponds to 01:20 WET. 05:50 EET corresponds to 03:50 WET. 07:35 EET corresponds to 05:35 WET. 10:10 EET corresponds to 08:10 WET. 13:25 EET corresponds to 11:25 WET. 16:40 EET corresponds to 14:40 WET. 19:55 EET corresponds to 17:55 WET. 22:15 EET corresponds to 20:15 WET. 23:05 EET corresponds to 21:05 WET.
How to check
Each line shows how a time with minutes is carried across. The offset has no minutes in it, so a reading of :45 stays :45 after the conversion.
Is it morning or night there?
EET hours and the day in WET
06:00 EET corresponds to 04:00 WET (night). 08:00 EET corresponds to 06:00 WET (early morning). 10:00 EET corresponds to 08:00 WET (morning). 12:00 EET corresponds to 10:00 WET (morning). 14:00 EET corresponds to 12:00 WET (around midday). 16:00 EET corresponds to 14:00 WET (afternoon). 18:00 EET corresponds to 16:00 WET (afternoon). 20:00 EET corresponds to 18:00 WET (evening). 22:00 EET corresponds to 20:00 WET (evening).
A practical use
The list pairs a EET hour with its WET time and a plain word for the time of day. It tells you at once whether the person you call has had breakfast or gone to bed.
A quick routine to convert EET to WET
Preparation
Read the labels
Egypt shares EET but changes its clocks on different dates from Europe. Mainland Portugal, Madeira and the Canaries use WET; Britain and Ireland have the same offset but call it GMT in winter.
Use a 24-hour clock
The 24-hour clock avoids a.m. and p.m. slips, so rewrite 4:30 p.m. as 16:30 before anything else. For example, 09:15 EET becomes 07:15 WET.
Finishing
The operation
Subtract 2 hours. If the result passes midnight, correct the date: readings before 02:00 fall on the previous date.
A second example
An evening check: 22:40 EET gives 20:40 WET.
Common slips when you convert EET to WET
Adding instead of subtracting
WET is behind EET, so the answer should be smaller than the starting hour. A larger number means an addition slipped in.
Losing the date
EET readings before 02:00 fall on the previous date. Forgetting to move the date leaves the result 24 hours wrong.
Mixing up labels in summer
In summer the labels change to EEST and WEST, but the gap between the two clocks does not. Do not adjust the sum because of a new name.
Confusing the abbreviation
Egypt shares EET but changes its clocks on different dates from Europe. WET is not used in the Azores, which sit one hour behind the Portuguese mainland.
Questions and answers
What is the difference between EET and WET?
2 hours, and WET is behind EET.
How do I convert EET to WET?
Subtract 2 hours from the EET time, then fix the date if the result passes midnight.
What does 09:00 EET become in WET?
07:00 WET.
Do the seasons affect this conversion?
No. The relationship is the same all year.
Is the time I enter sent anywhere?
No. Nothing leaves the page.
Where to go next
Other converters: Convert EET to IST, Convert EET to UTC, Convert IST to WET, Convert EST to WET, Convert WET to EST, Convert CST to EET, Convert WET to IST, Convert UTC to EST, Convert CET to CST. And the reverse of this one: Convert WET to EET.
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