Convert SAST to AWST

AWST is 6 hours ahead of SAST. SAST is UTC+2 and AWST is UTC+8.

Best time to schedule a meeting

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

SAST to AWST conversion table

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.

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.

Does this gap change with the seasons?

Neither SAST nor AWST 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 SAST conversions

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

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