Western European Time is UTC+00:00 in winter. Portugal uses WET/WEST; the UK uses the related GMT/BST pair.
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WET matches UTC in winter. This page follows Europe/Lisbon. The Canary Islands also use WET. Spain’s mainland is on CET instead, so Madrid is an hour ahead of Lisbon for most of the year.
The offset shown above is computed from Europe/Lisbon at page render time using Intl.DateTimeFormat. It can change when daylight saving starts or ends.
Portugal observes Western European Summer Time (WEST, UTC+01:00).
Western European Time (WET) uses the IANA identifier Europe/Lisbon. Western European Time is UTC+00:00 in winter. Portugal uses WET/WEST; the UK uses the related GMT/BST pair.
Right now Western European Time is UTC+01:00. The live abbreviation reported by the timezone database is GMT+1.
Daylight saving time is in effect. Standard time is labeled WET and daylight time is labeled WEST. Dates are taken from IANA data, not hardcoded on this site.
Use the converter with Europe/Lisbon as the source zone, or open the Time Zone Converter and pick a city that uses WET. Offsets update automatically when daylight saving begins or ends.