European time zones:
CEST – Central European Summer Time
Current time in Madrid
Friday, August 2, 2013 at 9:27:47 PM CEST
Madrid will stay on CEST until Sunday, October 27, 2013 at 3:00 AMwhen clocks are moved to Sunday, October 27, 2013 at 02:00:00CET
Find local time and time zone for a location
We recommend looking up by location name, not time zone name.Time zone offset: UTC + 2 hours
CEST is 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)Note that CEST is a daylight saving time/summer time zone. It is generally only used during the summer in the places listed below, during the winter CET is used instead
Time zone abbreviations: CEST, MESZ
Full name is Central European Summer TimeMESZ – Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit (German)
Email time zone indicator: +0200
An email sent from someone in the CEST time zone will have the time zone listed as "+0200" in the headers of the email. (However, "+0200" does not have to be in CEST, as other time zones could have the same UTC offset).
For actual dates DST might be observed, look at the examples belowWhere and when is CEST observed?
European countries using CEST in the summer and CET during the winter
- Albania
- Andorra
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark (mainland)
- France
- Germany
- Gibraltar
- Holy See/Vatican City
- Hungary
- Italy
- Kosovo
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Macedonia, Republic of
- Malta
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain - except Canary Islands, which are on WET/WEST
- Sweden
- Switzerland
Example location in CEST
- Brussels - This time zone offset is used during summer in this location
Other time zones in Europe
Go directly through the links below, or see the Europe time zone list- BST - British Summer Time
- CET - Central European Time
- EEST - Eastern European Summer Time
- EET - Eastern European Time
- GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
- IST - Irish Standard Time
- KUYT - Kuybyshev Time
- MSD - Moscow Daylight Time
- MSK - Moscow Standard Time
- SAMT - Samara Time
- WEST - Western European Summer Time
- WET - Western European Time
Time zones in other regions
- Africa
- Antarctica
- Asia
- Atlantic
- Australia
- Caribbean
- Central America
- Indian Ocean
- Military
- North America
- Pacific
- South America
Related links
- Time zone abbreviations world-wide
- The World Clock - Time Zones - current time around the world
- The World Clock - Time Zone Converter - Convert between time zones