Central European Summer Time (CEST)
Current time
The current time is Thursday, Nov 21, 2024, 15:32:39 .
Offset from UTC: +0200
Central European Summer Time is 2 hours later than UTC, which is the international baseline that other time zones are compared to (also known as GMT).
In email headers and other technical contexts, this time zone is often expressed as +0200.
Daylight Savings
Central European Summer Time is a Daylight Savings time zone. It is used during the warmer part of the year, and only in places that observe Daylight Savings Time.
Similar time zones
The following time zones are equivalent to Central European Summer Time. Note that they may not share the same observance of (or schedule for) Daylight Savings Time.
- Central Africa Time (CAT)
- Eastern European Time (EET)
- Israel Standard Time (IST)
- South African Standard Time (SAST)
- West Africa Summer Time (WAST)
Where is Central European Summer Time used?
- Albania*
- Andorra*
- Austria*
- Belgium*
- Bosnia and Herzegovina*
- Croatia*
- Czech Republic*
- Denmark*
- France*
- Germany*
- Gibraltar*
- Holy See (Vatican)*
- Hungary*
- Italy*
- Liechtenstein*
- Luxembourg*
- Macedonia*
- Malta*
- Monaco*
- Montenegro*
- Netherlands*
- Norway*
- Poland*
- San Marino*
- Serbia*
- Slovakia*
- Slovenia*
- Spain*
- Sweden*
- Switzerland*
* During Daylight Savings Time