Timezone WET (Western European Time)

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Western European Time (WET) The Western European Time zone applies, as the name suggests, in some countries and regions of Western Europe. These are the Faroe Islands, the Spanish Canary Islands and the Portuguese mainland including Madeira, but excluding the Azores.

Time zones are always indicated in their time distance to the coordinated world time. The English expression "Universal Time Coordinated" is abbreviated as UTC. This is the time that is valid on the zero degree of longitude. And the countries of Western Europe lie exactly in this time zone. In summer, all countries change to the Western European Summer Time (WEST). Then UTC+1 applies there uniformly.

The Western European time is therefore one hour behind the Central European time. Listen to this page: 0:00 / 0:00🔊 Current Western European Time: 00:00Saturday, February 07, 2026

Countries in Western European Time

WET time applies to the following countries:
CountryRegionStandard­timeDST
Faroe IslandscountrywideWETWEST
PortugalMadeiraWETWEST
SpainCanary IslandsWETWEST

Western Europe and other countries with the zone time UTC+0

The name of the Western European time zone is quite confusing. It covers only a few regions in Western Europe and in fact there are many other countries where the same hour strikes. Greenwich Mean Time has the same time. Ireland, Iceland, the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands use Greenwich Mean Time, the time zone is just called differently.

The reason is mainly political. All countries in a time zone switch to daylight saving time at the same moment, or stay with standard time all year round. Also the insertion of leap seconds does not necessarily take place in all countries with UTC+0 at the same time - but in all countries of a time zone. So if London decides to do without a leap second or to insert it later, this only applies to GMT. The countries of the WET determine this for themselves. In practice, however, this makes little difference. With increasing globalization, such times are anyway coordinated many years in advance and synchronized across time zones.› Overview of all time zones

CountryRegionTime zone
AntarcticaTrollGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Burkina FasocountrywideGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)
GambiacountrywideGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)
GhanacountrywideGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)
GreenlandDanmarkshavnGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)
GuernseycountrywideGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)
GuineacountrywideGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Guinea-BissaucountrywideGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)
IcelandcountrywideGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)
IrelandcountrywideGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Isle of MancountrywideGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Ivory CoastcountrywideGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)
JerseycountrywideGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)
LiberiacountrywideGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)
MalicountrywideGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)
MauritaniacountrywideGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da CunhacountrywideGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Sao Tome and PrincipecountrywideGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)
SenegalcountrywideGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Sierra LeonecountrywideGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)
TogocountrywideGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)
United KingdomcountrywideGreenwich Mean Time (GMT)

Sources

The time zones and times listed here are based on the IANA "Olsen" time zone database. Designations and their translations were adapted separately. Version used and update: Version 2024.2 on 03/06/2025.Countries with DSTAll Countries with DSTA summary of all countries that currently observe Daylight Saving Time with further info on introductions and upcoming changes.Time zones: converterInternational time zone converterConvert any time in any country to your local time: an overview of 40 different time zones around the world.Date and time formatsDate and time: International formattingThe date and time are notated differently in many countries. What do AM and PM mean? How do you write a date?🔎︎

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