European time zones:
CET – Central European Time
Current time in Madrid
Monday, December 3, 2012 at 3:38:18 AM CET
Madrid will stay on CET until Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 2:00 AMwhen clocks are moved to Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 03:00:00CEST
Find local time and time zone for a location
We recommend looking up by location name, not time zone name.Time zone offset: UTC + 1 hour
CET is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)Note that most places observe daylight saving time/summer time during summer, and are therefore using CEST instead in the summer. See below for details.
Time zone abbreviation: CET
Full name is Central European TimeEmail time zone indicator: +0100
An email sent from someone in the CET time zone will have the time zone listed as "+0100" in the headers of the email. (However, "+0100" does not have to be in CET, 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 CET observed?
European countries using CET in the winter and CEST during the summer
- 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 CET
- Brussels - This time zone offset is used during winter 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
- CEST - Central European Summer 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