European time zones:

CEST – Central European Summer Time

Time zone offset: UTC + 2 hours

CEST is 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

Note that CEST is a daylight saving time/summer time zone. It is generally only used during the summer in the places listed below, during the winter CET is used instead

Time zone abbreviations: CEST, CEDT, MESZ

Full name is Central European Summer Time
CEDT – Central European Daylight Time (Alternative)
MESZ – Mitteleuroäische Sommerzeit (German)

Email time zone indicator: +0200

An email sent from someone in the CEST time zone will have the time zone listed as "+0200" in the headers of the email. (However, "+0200" does not have to be in CEST, as other time zones could have the same UTC offset).

For actual dates DST might be observed, look at the examples below

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Where and when is CEST observed?

CEST is used during summer only in these European countries (CET during winter)

• Albania
• Andorra
• Austria
• Belgium
• Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Croatia
• Czech Republic
• Denmark (mainland)
• France
• Germany
• Gibraltar
• Holy See/Vatican City
• Hungary
• Italy
• Kosovo
• Liechtenstein
• Luxembourg
• Macedonia, Republic of
• Malta
• Monaco
• Montenegro
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Poland
• San Marino
• Serbia
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Spain - except Canary Islands, which are on WET/WEST
• Sweden
• Switzerland

Time zone maps are under development and will be available later

Example locations in CEST

• Berlin - during summer
• Paris - during summer

Other time zones in Europe

Go directly through the links below, or see the Europe time zone list

• GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
• BST - British Summer Time
• IST - Irish Summer Time
• WET - Western European Time
• WEST - Western European Summer Time
• CET - Central European Time
• EET - Eastern European Time
• EEST - Eastern European Summer Time
• MSK - Moscow Standard Time
• MSD - Moscow Daylight Time

Time zones in other regions

• North America
• Australia
• Military

More regions will be available later

Related links

• Time zone abbreviations world-wide
• The World Clock - Time Zones - current time around the world
• The World Clock - Time Zone Converter - Convert between time zones
• World Clock - Europe - current time in Europe