European time zones:

CET – Central European Time

Current time in Madrid

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 9:27:00 PM CET

Madrid will stay on CET until Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 2:00 AM
when clocks are moved to Sunday, March 28, 2010 at 03:00:00 CEST

Time zone offset: UTC + 1 hour

CET is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

Note that during summer daylight saving time/summer time is observed, and CEST is used instead.

Time zone abbreviations: CET, MEZ

Full name is Central European Time
MEZ – Mitteleuropäische Zeit (German)

Email time zone indicator: +0100

An email sent from someone in the CET time zone will have the time zone listed as "+0100" in the headers of the email. (However, "+0100" does not have to be in CET, 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 CET observed?

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

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 CET

Berlin - during winter
Paris - during winter

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
CEST - Central European Summer 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