Convert UTC to EAT
EAT is 3 hours ahead of UTC. UTC is UTC+0 and EAT is UTC+3.
Right now: UTC · EAT
Best time to schedule a meeting
Standard 9–5 working hours overlap for 5 hours: 9:00 AM–2:00 PM UTC (12:00 PM–5:00 PM EAT). Schedule meetings inside that window.
| UTC | EAT | Suitable? |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | 12:00 PM | working hours |
| 10:00 AM | 1:00 PM | working hours |
| 11:00 AM | 2:00 PM | working hours |
| 12:00 PM | 3:00 PM | working hours |
| 1:00 PM | 4:00 PM | working hours |
| 2:00 PM | 5:00 PM | outside 9–5 |
| 3:00 PM | 6:00 PM | outside 9–5 |
| 4:00 PM | 7:00 PM | outside 9–5 |
| 5:00 PM | 8:00 PM | outside 9–5 |
UTC to EAT conversion table
| UTC | EAT |
|---|---|
| 12:00 AM | 3:00 AM |
| 1:00 AM | 4:00 AM |
| 2:00 AM | 5:00 AM |
| 3:00 AM | 6:00 AM |
| 4:00 AM | 7:00 AM |
| 5:00 AM | 8:00 AM |
| 6:00 AM | 9:00 AM |
| 7:00 AM | 10:00 AM |
| 8:00 AM | 11:00 AM |
| 9:00 AM | 12:00 PM |
| 10:00 AM | 1:00 PM |
| 11:00 AM | 2:00 PM |
| 12:00 PM | 3:00 PM |
| 1:00 PM | 4:00 PM |
| 2:00 PM | 5:00 PM |
| 3:00 PM | 6:00 PM |
| 4:00 PM | 7:00 PM |
| 5:00 PM | 8:00 PM |
| 6:00 PM | 9:00 PM |
| 7:00 PM | 10:00 PM |
| 8:00 PM | 11:00 PM |
| 9:00 PM | 12:00 AM (next day) |
| 10:00 PM | 1:00 AM (next day) |
| 11:00 PM | 2:00 AM (next day) |
About UTC
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is UTC+0. It is used in the global time standard, used by aviation, computing and science.
UTC is not a time zone. It is the reference all the others are defined against, and no country runs its civil clocks on it — the places at UTC+0 are on GMT or WET, which are separate things that happen to agree in winter. It never changes for daylight saving, which is exactly why servers, aviation, and every log file you will ever read are timestamped in it. The one irregularity is the leap second, inserted to keep UTC within a second of the Earth's rotation; the practice is due to be abandoned by 2035.
About EAT
East Africa Time (EAT) is UTC+3. It is used in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda and Somalia.
East Africa Time is UTC+3 and fixed. Nairobi, Addis Ababa and Dar es Salaam all keep it. Ethiopia additionally uses a clock that counts from dawn rather than midnight for everyday purposes, six hours off the international one, so a time given locally in Addis may need converting twice rather than once.
Does this gap change with the seasons?
Neither UTC nor EAT shifts with the seasons, so this 3-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 Etc/UTC 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 UTC in EAT?
9:00 AM UTC is 12:00 PM EAT.
Is EAT ahead of UTC?
EAT is 3 hours ahead of UTC.
Which time zone does this use?
UTC is UTC+0 and EAT is UTC+3. 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.