Convert AWST to SAST

SAST is 6 hours behind AWST. AWST is UTC+8 and SAST is UTC+2.

Best time to schedule a meeting

Standard 9–5 working hours overlap for 2 hours: 3:00 PM–5:00 PM AWST (9:00 AM–11:00 AM SAST). Schedule meetings inside that window.

AWST to SAST conversion table

About AWST

Australian Western Standard Time (AWST) is UTC+8. It is used in Perth and Western Australia.

Australian Western Standard Time is UTC+8 and Western Australia does not observe daylight saving — it has rejected it in four referendums, most recently in 2009. Perth therefore keeps the same offset all year while Sydney moves, so the gap between Australia's two largest business centres is two hours in winter and three in summer.

About SAST

South Africa Standard Time (SAST) is UTC+2. It is used in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini.

South Africa Standard Time is UTC+2 with no daylight saving, unchanged since 1903 apart from two wartime years. The whole country keeps it, and so do Lesotho and Eswatini. Against the UK it is two hours ahead in winter and one in summer, which is the shift that catches London–Johannesburg standing calls every March and October.

Does this gap change with the seasons?

Neither AWST nor SAST shifts with the seasons, so this 6-hour difference holds all year. That is unusual enough to be worth relying on: most cross-continental gaps move twice a year.

This is the reason scheduling systems store an IANA zone such as Region/City rather than an offset or an abbreviation: the zone knows its own rules and the offset does not.

Frequently asked questions

Other AWST conversions

• AWST to UTC
• AWST to GMT
• AWST to EST
• AWST to EDT
• AWST to CST
• AWST to CDT
• AWST to MST
• AWST to MDT
• AWST to PST
• AWST to PDT
• AWST to AKST
• AWST to HST
• AWST to BRT
• AWST to BST
• AWST to CET
• AWST to CEST

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