Central European Summer Time is UTC+02:00, the daylight-saving offset for much of mainland Europe.
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CEST is the summer setting of zones such as Europe/Paris and Europe/Berlin. It is two hours ahead of UTC and one hour ahead of British Summer Time. This page helps confirm whether continental Europe has already changed its clocks relative to the UK.
The offset shown above is computed from Europe/Paris at page render time using Intl.DateTimeFormat. It can change when daylight saving starts or ends.
When summer time ends, Central Europe returns to CET (UTC+01:00).
Central European Summer Time (CEST) uses the IANA identifier Europe/Paris. Central European Summer Time is UTC+02:00, the daylight-saving offset for much of mainland Europe.
Right now Central European Summer Time is UTC+02:00. The live abbreviation reported by the timezone database is GMT+2.
Daylight saving time is in effect. Standard time is labeled CET and daylight time is labeled CEST. Dates are taken from IANA data, not hardcoded on this site.
Use the converter with Europe/Paris as the source zone, or open the Time Zone Converter and pick a city that uses CEST. Offsets update automatically when daylight saving begins or ends.