The European Commission proposed in September 2018 ending the observance of summer time in the EU. It should therefore be located in UTC−01:00, but chooses to remain closer to continental European time, resulting in legal times significantly in advance of local solar time this is of little practical significance owing to the wide variations in daylight hours in that country. Iceland can be considered to be on ' de facto' permanent summer time because, since 1968, it has used UTC time all year, despite being located more than 15° west of the prime meridian. Since October 2014 Russia has observed 'permanent winter time'. Russia and Belarus observed 'permanent summer time' between March 2011 and October 2014. The Benelux countries should also theoretically use GMT. The general result is a solar noon which is much later than clock noon, and later sunrises and sunsets than should theoretically happen.

However, for example Spain (almost entirely in the Western hemisphere) and France (almost entirely west of 7.5☎, as illustrated in the map below) should theoretically use UTC, as they did before the Second World War. Based on solar time, CET would range from 7.5 to 22.5☎. In Europe, the widespread use of Central European Time (CET) causes major variations in some areas from solar time. However, due to geographical and cultural factors, it is not practical to divide the world so evenly, and actual time zones may differ significantly from those based purely on longitude. The world could in theory be divided into 24 time zones, each of 15 degrees of longitude. The time zones actually in use in Europe differ significantly from uniform zoning based purely on longitude, as used for example under the nautical time system. Most European countries use summer time and harmonise their summer time adjustments see Summer time in Europe for details. ▉ ▉ ▉ ▉ Pale colours: Standard time observed all yearĮurope spans seven primary time zones (from UTC−01:00 to UTC+05:00), excluding summer time offsets (five of them can be seen on the map, with one further-western zone containing the Azores, and one further-eastern zone spanning the European part of Kazakhstan). Western European Summer Time / British Summer Time / Irish Standard Time ( UTC+1)Įastern European Time / Kaliningrad Time ( UTC+2)Īrmenia Time / Azerbaijan Time / Georgia Time / Samara Time ( UTC+4) Western European Time / Greenwich Mean Time ( UTC) UTC offsets in diagonally striped areas are not whole hours.Time zones in Europe Time in Europe: Light Blue

Find the current time offset – displayed in whole hours only – from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) at the bottom of the map.

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Click on any red dot and go to that city's page with time, weather, sunrise/set, moon phases and lots more.“DST” is displayed if there is Daylight Saving Time at the moment. Hover your mouse over any of the red dots to see the name of the city and country and current local time.To remove the pins permanently (undo not possible), simply click here or on the Time Zone Map link in the menu above.If you place more than one pin, an extra line of information is added underneath the map with links to those cities' pages. Search for any city in the search field above and place a black 'pin' by that city on the map.Please note that the Time Zone Map is not a political map but a time zone map showing the time zone boundaries. Future changes are usually incorporated into our database before they take effect, so the map accurately reflects the current situation. Business Date to Date (exclude holidays)Īll clock changes worldwide are automatically taken into account and displayed in real-time as soon as you reload the page.

Europe time zone map