Convert SAST to IRST
IRST is 1 hour 30 minutes ahead of SAST. SAST is UTC+2 and IRST is UTC+3:30.
Right now: SAST · IRST
Best time to schedule a meeting
Standard 9–5 working hours overlap for 7 hours: 9:00 AM–4:00 PM SAST (10:00 AM–5:00 PM IRST). Schedule meetings inside that window.
| SAST | IRST | Suitable? |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | 10:30 AM | working hours |
| 10:00 AM | 11:30 AM | working hours |
| 11:00 AM | 12:30 PM | working hours |
| 12:00 PM | 1:30 PM | working hours |
| 1:00 PM | 2:30 PM | working hours |
| 2:00 PM | 3:30 PM | working hours |
| 3:00 PM | 4:30 PM | working hours |
| 4:00 PM | 5:30 PM | outside 9–5 |
| 5:00 PM | 6:30 PM | outside 9–5 |
SAST to IRST conversion table
| SAST | IRST |
|---|---|
| 12:00 AM | 1:30 AM |
| 1:00 AM | 2:30 AM |
| 2:00 AM | 3:30 AM |
| 3:00 AM | 4:30 AM |
| 4:00 AM | 5:30 AM |
| 5:00 AM | 6:30 AM |
| 6:00 AM | 7:30 AM |
| 7:00 AM | 8:30 AM |
| 8:00 AM | 9:30 AM |
| 9:00 AM | 10:30 AM |
| 10:00 AM | 11:30 AM |
| 11:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
| 12:00 PM | 1:30 PM |
| 1:00 PM | 2:30 PM |
| 2:00 PM | 3:30 PM |
| 3:00 PM | 4:30 PM |
| 4:00 PM | 5:30 PM |
| 5:00 PM | 6:30 PM |
| 6:00 PM | 7:30 PM |
| 7:00 PM | 8:30 PM |
| 8:00 PM | 9:30 PM |
| 9:00 PM | 10:30 PM |
| 10:00 PM | 11:30 PM |
| 11:00 PM | 12:30 AM (next day) |
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 IRST
Iran Standard Time (IRST) is UTC+3:30. It is used in Iran, all year.
Iran Standard Time is UTC+3:30. Iran ran daylight saving for decades and stopped in 2022, so material written before then puts the country half an hour further ahead in summer and is now wrong. Half-hour offsets are rare enough that scheduling tools sometimes round them, which turns a correct calculation into a thirty-minute error.
Does this gap change with the seasons?
Neither SAST nor IRST shifts with the seasons, so this 1.5-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
What time is 9:00 AM SAST in IRST?
9:00 AM SAST is 10:30 AM IRST.
Is IRST ahead of SAST?
IRST is 1 hour 30 minutes ahead of SAST.
Which time zone does this use?
SAST is UTC+2 and IRST is UTC+3:30. Both abbreviations denote a single fixed offset, so this conversion never shifts with daylight saving — what changes is which abbreviation a place is using at the time.