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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

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

More regions will be available later

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