Central European Time is UTC+01:00. It is the winter offset for Paris, Berlin, Rome, Amsterdam, and much of mainland Europe.
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CET is shared by a large group of countries that adopted the same civil offset. This page uses Europe/Paris as a representative IANA zone; Berlin, Rome, Madrid, and Amsterdam follow equivalent EU daylight-saving rules. In summer the region uses Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00).
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.
EU countries on CET generally change clocks on the last Sunday of March and October. The live offset is read from IANA data.
Central European Time (CET) uses the IANA identifier Europe/Paris. Central European Time is UTC+01:00. It is the winter offset for Paris, Berlin, Rome, Amsterdam, and much of mainland Europe.
Right now Central European 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 CET. Offsets update automatically when daylight saving begins or ends.