Best overlap: 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Manila is 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM in Lisbon.
Book within 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM Manila time (8:00 AM to 11:00 AM in Lisbon) and both teams will be at work. Lisbon is 7 hours behind Manila, so the practical overlap is about 3 hours — generous enough for meetings, tight enough to be worth booking ahead. For part of the year the maths changes: Lisbon observes daylight saving, Manila does not, shifting the overlap by an hour.
| Local time | 12am | 1am | 2am | 3am | 4am | 5am | 6am | 7am | 8am | 9am | 10am | 11am | 12pm | 1pm | 2pm | 3pm | 4pm | 5pm | 6pm | 7pm | 8pm | 9pm | 10pm | 11pm |
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