Ghent, Belgium
Current time in Belgium
Time zone: CEST (UTC/GMT +02:00) — Europe/Brussels
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, 2 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +02:00) Europe/Brussels |
Ghent time zone and UTC offset
The local standard in Ghent is CEST — UTC+02:00, or 2 hours ahead of UTC. Systems that store time zones by name use Europe/Brussels for this part of the world.
Ghent observes daylight saving. The next change lands on Sunday, 25 October 2026, when 1 hour is added or removed and the abbreviation becomes CET.
Time gaps from Ghent right now
Read this as: relative to each city below, Ghent is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Ghent is 6 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Ghent is 9 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Ghent is 1 hour ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | same time as Ghent |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Ghent is 2 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Ghent is 3 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Ghent is 6 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Ghent is 7 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Ghent is 8 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Ghent is 5 hours ahead |
Scheduling calls with Ghent
Where the two working days actually meet, expressed in Ghent local time.
| Paris | 09:00–17:00 in Ghent | 8 hours overlap |
| London | 10:00–17:00 in Ghent | 7 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 09:00–15:00 in Ghent | 6 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 09:00–13:30 in Ghent | 4.5 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with Los Angeles or Sydney, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
Sharing Ghent's time zone
Same zone, same time — each of these sits on Europe/Brussels alongside Ghent, including through any clock change.
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