The best time to meet between London and Paris is 9:00 AM–4:00 PM GMT+1 (10:00 AM–5:00 PM GMT+2), when both cities are within standard working hours.
Plan a meeting →| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Time difference | 1h (Paris is ahead) |
| London 9–5 in Paris time | 10:00 AM–6:00 PM GMT+2 |
| Paris 9–5 in London time | 8:00 AM–4:00 PM GMT+1 |
| Overlap window | 9:00 AM–4:00 PM GMT+1 / 10:00 AM–5:00 PM GMT+2 |
| Recommended slots | 9:00 AM GMT+1 = 10:00 AM GMT+2, 12:30 PM GMT+1 = 1:30 PM GMT+2 |
| DST transitions (this year) | London: March 29 / October 25; Paris: March 29 / October 25 |
London and Paris are 1h apart. When it's 9 AM in London, it's already 10:00 AM in Paris — meaning Paris's working day is well underway before London's morning has properly started.
The 7h 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.
The less obvious scheduling risk is daylight saving time mismatch. London and Paris may not shift their clocks on the same date. A meeting booked as "10 AM LDN" in January might show up as "11 AM LDN" in a colleague's calendar in March if your calendar app doesn't handle DST transitions correctly. Check the DST note on this page before setting up recurring meetings.
The bigger risk isn't the 1h gap — it's that the 7h overlap creates a false sense of availability. Both sides are reachable at the same time, so meetings proliferate. The most effective London–Paris teams treat their overlap window as a protected resource: one synchronized meeting per day maximum, async-first for everything else.
London is UTC+1 and Paris is UTC+2, a difference of 1h. This gap may shift by 1 hour during DST transitions.
The best meeting time is during the 7h of shared business hours — typically 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM GMT+1.
Yes. Both London and Paris observe daylight saving time and change their clocks on the same dates (March 29 and October 25), so the gap between them stays constant.
London and Paris share 7h of business-hours overlap (assuming 9 AM–5 PM local time for both).