AWST is UTC+08:00 year-round and is used in Western Australia, including Perth.
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Western Australia does not currently observe daylight saving, so Perth stays on UTC+08:00 while Sydney moves between UTC+10:00 and UTC+11:00. That creates a two- or three-hour gap inside the same country.
The offset shown above is computed from Australia/Perth at page render time using Intl.DateTimeFormat. It can change when daylight saving starts or ends.
Western Australia does not currently observe daylight saving time.
Australian Western Standard Time (AWST) uses the IANA identifier Australia/Perth. AWST is UTC+08:00 year-round and is used in Western Australia, including Perth.
Right now Australian Western Standard Time is UTC+08:00. The live abbreviation reported by the timezone database is GMT+8.
Western Australia does not currently observe daylight saving time.
Use the converter with Australia/Perth as the source zone, or open the Time Zone Converter and pick a city that uses AWST. Offsets update automatically when daylight saving begins or ends.