The best time to meet between Lisbon and London is 9:00 AM–5:00 PM GMT+1 (9:00 AM–5:00 PM GMT+1), when both cities are within standard working hours.
Plan a meeting →| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Time difference | 0h (same UTC offset) |
| Lisbon 9–5 in London time | 9:00 AM–5:00 PM GMT+1 |
| London 9–5 in Lisbon time | 9:00 AM–5:00 PM GMT+1 |
| Overlap window | 9:00 AM–5:00 PM GMT+1 / 9:00 AM–5:00 PM GMT+1 |
| Recommended slots | 9:00 AM GMT+1 = 9:00 AM GMT+1, 1:00 PM GMT+1 = 1:00 PM GMT+1 |
| DST transitions (this year) | Lisbon: March 29 / October 25; London: March 29 / October 25 |
Lisbon and London are 0h apart. When it's 9 AM in London, it's already 9:00 AM in Lisbon — meaning Lisbon's working day is well underway before London's morning has properly started.
The 8h of overlapping business hours is your synchronous window. Use it for decisions, code reviews, and anything that genuinely requires two people to think together. Push everything else — status updates, documentation questions, non-blocking feedback — into async channels so you're not burning your shared window on things that could be an email.
For any recurring sync between Lisbon and London, set the calendar invite in one canonical timezone and confirm the other side sees the correct local time. DST transitions can silently shift the effective meeting time by an hour for several weeks without either party noticing until someone is waiting alone on the call.
The bigger risk isn't the 0h gap — it's that the 8h overlap creates a false sense of availability. Both sides are reachable at the same time, so meetings proliferate. The most effective Lisbon–London teams treat their overlap window as a protected resource: one synchronized meeting per day maximum, async-first for everything else.
Lisbon is UTC+1 and London is UTC+1, a difference of 0h. This gap may shift by 1 hour during DST transitions.
The best meeting time is during the 8h of shared business hours — typically 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM GMT+1.
Yes. Both Lisbon and London observe daylight saving time and change their clocks on the same dates (March 29 and October 25), so the gap between them stays constant.
Lisbon and London share 8h of business-hours overlap (assuming 9 AM–5 PM local time for both).