Eastern European Time is UTC+02:00. It is used in Greece, Finland, Egypt, and parts of Eastern Europe, with local DST rules.
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EET sits one hour ahead of CET in winter. This page uses Europe/Athens. Cairo and other African EET locations may follow different daylight-saving policies, so country and city pages are the better reference for those places.
The offset shown above is computed from Europe/Athens at page render time using Intl.DateTimeFormat. It can change when daylight saving starts or ends.
Greece observes Eastern European Summer Time (EEST, UTC+03:00). Egypt’s DST rules have changed in recent years and are read from IANA data on the Cairo page.
Eastern European Time (EET) uses the IANA identifier Europe/Athens. Eastern European Time is UTC+02:00. It is used in Greece, Finland, Egypt, and parts of Eastern Europe, with local DST rules.
Right now Eastern European Time is UTC+03:00. The live abbreviation reported by the timezone database is GMT+3.
Daylight saving time is in effect. Standard time is labeled EET and daylight time is labeled EEST. Dates are taken from IANA data, not hardcoded on this site.
Use the converter with Europe/Athens as the source zone, or open the Time Zone Converter and pick a city that uses EET. Offsets update automatically when daylight saving begins or ends.