Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 2016

Daylight Saving Time (DST) is often incorrectly referred to as “daylight savings time”. In some countries, it is also called “summer time”. When DST is not observed, it is called standard time, normal time or winter time.

This list displays a brief (but not complete) overview showing the countries and territories which observed DST during the first half of 2016.

Current country/territory names, rather than historic country names are displayed, so the list could contain countries that did not exist at the time.

Also, please see the page for the second half of 2016 or the overview over start and end times for 2016 sorted by country.

Date	Country	Local Time Change
Jan 17 Sun	Fiji (All locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Feb 21 Sun	Brazil (All locations which are observing DST)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 13 Sun	Cuba (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 13 Sun	The Bahamas (All locations) Bermuda (All locations) Canada (All locations which are observing DST) Greenland (Thule Air Base) Mexico (Some locations observing DST) Saint Pierre and Miquelon (All locations) United States (All locations which are observing DST)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 20 Sun	Antarctica (Troll Station)	1:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 21 Mon	Iran (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 25 Fri	Syria (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 25 Fri	Israel (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 26 Sat	Palestine (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Mar 26 Sat	Mongolia (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 26 Sat	Greenland (Most locations observing DST)	10:00 pm → 11:00 pm (Forward)
Mar 27 Sun	Paraguay (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 27 Sun	Greenland (Ittoqqortoormiit) Lebanon (All locations) Portugal (Some locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 27 Sun	Faroe Islands (All locations) Guernsey (All locations) Ireland (All locations) Isle of Man (All locations) Jersey (All locations) Portugal (Most locations) Spain (Some locations) United Kingdom (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Mar 27 Sun	Albania (All locations) Andorra (All locations) Austria (All locations) Belgium (All locations) Bosnia and Herzegovina (All locations) Croatia (All locations) Czechia (All locations) Denmark (All locations) France (All locations which are observing DST) Germany (All locations) Gibraltar (All locations) Hungary (All locations) Italy (All locations) Kosovo (All locations) Liechtenstein (All locations) Luxembourg (All locations) Malta (All locations) Moldova (All locations) Monaco (All locations) Montenegro (All locations) Morocco (Some locations) Netherlands (All locations which are observing DST) Norway (All locations) Poland (All locations) North Macedonia (All locations) San Marino (All locations) Serbia (All locations) Slovakia (All locations) Slovenia (All locations) Spain (Most locations) Sweden (All locations) Switzerland (All locations) Vatican City (Holy See) (All locations) Western Sahara (Some locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 27 Sun	Åland Islands (All locations) Bulgaria (All locations) Cyprus (All locations) Estonia (All locations) Finland (All locations) Greece (All locations) Latvia (All locations) Lithuania (All locations) Romania (All locations) Turkey (All locations) Ukraine (All locations which are observing DST)	3:00 am → 4:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Fri	Jordan (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 3 Sun	Namibia (All locations)	2:00 am → 1:00 am (Back)
Apr 3 Sun	Australia (Lord Howe Island)	2:00 am → 1:30 am (Back)
Apr 3 Sun	Mexico (Most locations observing DST)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Apr 3 Sun	Antarctica (Some locations observing DST) Australia (Most locations observing DST) New Zealand (Most locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Apr 3 Sun	New Zealand (Some locations)	3:45 am → 2:45 am (Back)
Apr 3 Sun	Samoa (All locations)	4:00 am → 3:00 am (Back)
May 14 Sat	Chile (Some locations)	10:00 pm → 9:00 pm (Back)
May 15 Sun	Antarctica (Palmer Station) Chile (Most locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Jun 5 Sun	Morocco (Some locations) Western Sahara (Some locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)

Daylight Saving Time for other years
Yearly Overview	January–June	July–December
2014	first half of 2014	second half of 2014
2015	first half of 2015	second half of 2015
2016	first half of 2016	second half of 2016
2017	first half of 2017	second half of 2017
2018	first half of 2018	second half of 2018

Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 2016

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