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Daylight Saving Time Around the World 2013

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Daylight saving time is also called summer time or daylight savings time. When DST is not observed, it is called standard time, normal time or winter time.

This list displays a brief (but not complete) overview over which countries and territories that plan to observe DST during . Note that the list might not be final - countries, territories and states sometimes make adjustments that are announced just days or weeks ahead of the change.

Detailed information is available for the first half of 2013 and the second half of 2013.

Country	Region/states	Example location	DST start date	DST end date
Afghanistan	All locations	Kabul	No DST in 2013
Albania	All locations	Tirana	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Algeria	All locations	Algiers	No DST in 2013
American Samoa	All locations	Pago Pago	No DST in 2013
Andorra	All locations	Andorra La Vella	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Angola	All locations	Luanda	No DST in 2013
Anguilla	All locations	The Valley	No DST in 2013
Antarctica	Most locations	Mawson	No DST in 2013
Antarctica	Some locations	South Pole	Sunday, September 29	Sunday, April 7
Antigua and Barbuda	All locations	Saint John's	No DST in 2013
Argentina	All locations	Buenos Aires	No DST in 2013
Armenia	All locations	Yerevan	No DST in 2013
Aruba	All locations	Oranjestad	No DST in 2013
Australia	Most locations	Melbourne	Sunday, October 6	Sunday, April 7
	Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia, Christmas Island	Brisbane	No DST in 2013
	Lord Howe Island	Lord Howe Island	Sunday, October 6	Sunday, April 7
	Other	Macquarie Island	DST all year in 2013
Austria	All locations	Vienna	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Azerbaijan	Most locations	Baku	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Azerbaijan	Nagorno-Karabakh	Stepanakert	No DST in 2013
Bahrain	All locations	Manama	No DST in 2013
Bangladesh	All locations	Dhaka	No DST in 2013
Barbados	All locations	Bridgetown	No DST in 2013
Belarus	All locations	Minsk	No DST in 2013
Belgium	All locations	Brussels	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Belize	All locations	Belmopan	No DST in 2013
Benin	All locations	Porto Novo	No DST in 2013
Bermuda	All locations	Hamilton	Sunday, March 10	Sunday, November 3
Bhutan	All locations	Thimphu	No DST in 2013
Bolivia	All locations	La Paz	No DST in 2013
Bosnia and Herzegovina	All locations	Sarajevo	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Botswana	All locations	Gaborone	No DST in 2013
Brazil	Most locations	Rio de Janeiro	Sunday, October 20	Sunday, February 17
Brazil	Amazonas, Pernambuco, Bahia, Sergipe, Para, Paraíba, Ceará, Amapá, Alagoas, Rondônia, Rio Grande do Norte, Piauí, Maranhão, Acre, Roraima, much of Mato Grosso	Manaus	No DST in 2013
British Indian Ocean Territory	All locations	Diego Garcia	No DST in 2013
British Virgin Islands	All locations	Road Town	No DST in 2013
Brunei	All locations	Bandar Seri Begawan	No DST in 2013
Bulgaria	All locations	Sofia	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Burkina Faso	All locations	Ouagadougou	No DST in 2013
Burundi	All locations	Bujumbura	No DST in 2013
Cambodia	All locations	Phnom Penh	No DST in 2013
Cameroon	All locations	Yaoundé	No DST in 2013
Canada	Most locations	Montreal	Sunday, March 10	Sunday, November 3
Canada	much of Saskatchewan, small region of British Columbia, small region of Nunavut Territory, small region of Quebec, small region of Ontario	Regina	No DST in 2013
Cape Verde	All locations	Praia	No DST in 2013
Cayman Islands	All locations	George Town	No DST in 2013
Central African Republic	All locations	Bangui	No DST in 2013
Chad	All locations	Ndjamena	No DST in 2013
Chile	Most locations	Santiago	Sunday, October 13	Sunday, March 10
Chile	Other	Easter Island	Saturday, October 12	Saturday, March 9
China	All locations	Beijing	No DST in 2013
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	All locations	Bantam	No DST in 2013
Colombia	All locations	Bogota	No DST in 2013
Comoros	All locations	Moroni	No DST in 2013
Congo	All locations	Brazzaville	No DST in 2013
Congo Dem.Rep.	All locations	Kinshasa	No DST in 2013
Cook Islands	All locations	Rarotonga	No DST in 2013
Costa Rica	All locations	San Jose	No DST in 2013
Cote d'Ivoire	All locations	Yamoussoukro	No DST in 2013
Croatia	All locations	Zagreb	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Cuba	All locations	Havana	Sunday, April 7	Sunday, November 3
Curaçao	All locations	Willemstad	No DST in 2013
Cyprus	All locations	Nicosia	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Czech Republic	All locations	Prague	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Denmark	All locations	Copenhagen	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Djibouti	All locations	Djibouti	No DST in 2013
Dominica	All locations	Roseau	No DST in 2013
Dominican Republic	All locations	Santo Domingo	No DST in 2013
East Timor	All locations	Dili	No DST in 2013
Ecuador	All locations	Quito	No DST in 2013
Egypt	All locations	Cairo	No DST in 2013
El Salvador	All locations	San Salvador	No DST in 2013
Equatorial Guinea	All locations	Malabo	No DST in 2013
Eritrea	All locations	Asmara	No DST in 2013
Estonia	All locations	Tallinn	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Ethiopia	All locations	Addis Ababa	No DST in 2013
Falkland Islands	All locations	Stanley	DST all year in 2013
Faroe Islands	All locations	Tórshavn	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Fiji	All locations	Suva	Sunday, October 27	Sunday, January 20
Finland	All locations	Helsinki	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
France	Most locations	Paris	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
France	Tahiti, New Caledonia, Marquesas Islands	Papeete	No DST in 2013
French Guyana	All locations	Cayenne	No DST in 2013
French Polynesia	All locations	Gambier Islands	No DST in 2013
Gabon	All locations	Libreville	No DST in 2013
Gaza Strip	All locations	Gaza	Friday, March 29	Friday, September 27
Georgia	All locations	Tbilisi	No DST in 2013
Germany	All locations	Berlin	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Ghana	All locations	Accra	No DST in 2013
Gibraltar	All locations	Gibraltar	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Greece	All locations	Athens	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Greenland	Some locations	Nuuk	Saturday, March 30	Saturday, October 26
		Ittoqqortoormiit	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
		Danmarkshavn	No DST in 2013
		Qaanaaq	Sunday, March 10	Sunday, November 3
Grenada	All locations	Saint George's	No DST in 2013
Guadeloupe	All locations	Basse-Terre	No DST in 2013
Guam	All locations	Guam (Hagåtña)	No DST in 2013
Guatemala	All locations	Guatemala	No DST in 2013
Guinea	All locations	Conakry	No DST in 2013
Guinea-Bissau	All locations	Bissau	No DST in 2013
Guyana	All locations	Georgetown	No DST in 2013
Haiti	All locations	Port-au-Prince	No DST in 2013
Holy See (Vatican City)	All locations	Vatican City	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Honduras	All locations	Tegucigalpa	No DST in 2013
Hong Kong	All locations	Hong Kong	No DST in 2013
Hungary	All locations	Budapest	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Iceland	All locations	Reykjavik	No DST in 2013
India	All locations	New Delhi	No DST in 2013
Indonesia	All locations	Jakarta	No DST in 2013
Iran	All locations	Tehran	Friday, March 22	Sunday, September 22
Iraq	All locations	Baghdad	No DST in 2013
Ireland	All locations	Dublin	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Isle of Man	All locations	Douglas	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Israel	All locations	Jerusalem	Friday, March 29	Sunday, October 6
Italy	All locations	Rome	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Jamaica	All locations	Kingston	No DST in 2013
Japan	All locations	Tokyo	No DST in 2013
Jordan	All locations	Amman	Does not start this year	Friday, October 25
Kazakhstan	All locations	Almaty	No DST in 2013
Kenya	All locations	Nairobi	No DST in 2013
Kerguelen Islands	All locations	Port-aux-Francais	No DST in 2013
Kiribati	All locations	Kiritimati	No DST in 2013
Kosovo	All locations	Pristina	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Kuwait	All locations	Kuwait City	No DST in 2013
Kyrgyzstan	All locations	Bishkek	No DST in 2013
Laos	All locations	Vientiane	No DST in 2013
Latvia	All locations	Riga	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Lebanon	All locations	Beirut	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Lesotho	All locations	Maseru	No DST in 2013
Liberia	All locations	Monrovia	No DST in 2013
Libya	All locations	Tripoli	Friday, March 29	Friday, October 25
Liechtenstein	All locations	Vaduz	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Lithuania	All locations	Vilnius	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Luxembourg	All locations	Luxembourg	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Macau	All locations	Macau	No DST in 2013
Macedonia, Republic of	All locations	Skopje	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Madagascar	All locations	Antananarivo	No DST in 2013
Malawi	All locations	Lilongwe	No DST in 2013
Malaysia	All locations	Kuala Lumpur	No DST in 2013
Maldives	All locations	Male	No DST in 2013
Mali	All locations	Bamako	No DST in 2013
Malta	All locations	Valletta	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Marshall Islands	All locations	Majuro	No DST in 2013
Martinique	All locations	Fort-de-France	No DST in 2013
Mauritania	All locations	Nouakchott	No DST in 2013
Mauritius	All locations	Port Louis	No DST in 2013
Mayotte	All locations	Mamoutzou	No DST in 2013
Mexico	Most locations	Mexico City	Sunday, April 7	Sunday, October 27
	Baja California, much of Chihuahua, Tamaulipas	Mexicali	Sunday, March 10	Sunday, November 3
	Sonora	Hermosillo	No DST in 2013
Micronesia	All locations	Palikir	No DST in 2013
Moldova	All locations	Chisinau	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Monaco	All locations	Monaco	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Mongolia	All locations	Ulaanbaatar	No DST in 2013
Montenegro	All locations	Podgorica	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Montserrat	All locations	Brades	No DST in 2013
Morocco	All locations	Casablanca	Sunday, April 28*	Sunday, September 29*
Mozambique	All locations	Maputo	No DST in 2013
Myanmar	All locations	Yangon	No DST in 2013
Namibia	All locations	Windhoek	Sunday, September 1	Sunday, April 7
Nauru	All locations	Yaren	No DST in 2013
Nepal	All locations	Kathmandu	No DST in 2013
Netherlands	Most locations	Amsterdam	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Netherlands	Other	Kralendijk (Bonaire)	No DST in 2013
New Zealand	All locations	Auckland	Sunday, September 29	Sunday, April 7
Nicaragua	All locations	Managua	No DST in 2013
Niger	All locations	Niamey	No DST in 2013
Nigeria	All locations	Lagos	No DST in 2013
Niue	All locations	Alofi	No DST in 2013
Norfolk Island	All locations	Kingston	No DST in 2013
North Korea	All locations	Pyongyang	No DST in 2013
Northern Mariana Islands	All locations	Saipan	No DST in 2013
Norway	All locations	Oslo	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Oman	All locations	Muscat	No DST in 2013
Pakistan	All locations	Islamabad	No DST in 2013
Palau	All locations	Melekeok	No DST in 2013
Panama	All locations	Panama	No DST in 2013
Papua New Guinea	All locations	Port Moresby	No DST in 2013
Paraguay	All locations	Asuncion	Sunday, October 6	Sunday, April 14
Peru	All locations	Lima	No DST in 2013
Philippines	All locations	Manila	No DST in 2013
Pitcairn Islands	All locations	Adamstown	No DST in 2013
Poland	All locations	Warsaw	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Portugal	All locations	Lisbon	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Puerto Rico	All locations	San Juan	No DST in 2013
Qatar	All locations	Doha	No DST in 2013
Reunion	All locations	Saint-Denis	No DST in 2013
Romania	All locations	Bucharest	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Russia	All locations	Moscow	No DST in 2013
Rwanda	All locations	Kigali	No DST in 2013
Saint Helena	All locations	Jamestown	No DST in 2013
Saint Kitts and Nevis	All locations	Basseterre	No DST in 2013
Saint Lucia	All locations	Castries	No DST in 2013
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	All locations	Saint-Pierre	Sunday, March 10	Sunday, November 3
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	All locations	Kingstown	No DST in 2013
Samoa	All locations	Apia	Sunday, September 29	Sunday, April 7
San Marino	All locations	San Marino	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Sao Tome and Principe	All locations	São Tomé	No DST in 2013
Saudi Arabia	All locations	Riyadh	No DST in 2013
Senegal	All locations	Dakar	No DST in 2013
Serbia	All locations	Belgrade	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Seychelles	All locations	Victoria	No DST in 2013
Sierra Leone	All locations	Freetown	No DST in 2013
Singapore	All locations	Singapore	No DST in 2013
Sint Maarten	All locations	Philipsburg	No DST in 2013
Slovakia	All locations	Bratislava	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Slovenia	All locations	Ljubljana	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Solomon Islands	All locations	Honiara	No DST in 2013
Somalia	All locations	Mogadishu	No DST in 2013
South Africa	All locations	Johannesburg	No DST in 2013
South Georgia/Sandwich Is.	All locations	King Edward Point	No DST in 2013
South Korea	All locations	Seoul	No DST in 2013
South Sudan	All locations	Juba	No DST in 2013
Spain	All locations	Madrid	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Sri Lanka	All locations	Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte	No DST in 2013
Sudan	All locations	Khartoum	No DST in 2013
Suriname	All locations	Paramaribo	No DST in 2013
Swaziland	All locations	Mbabane	No DST in 2013
Sweden	All locations	Stockholm	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Switzerland	All locations	Zürich	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Syria	All locations	Damascus	Friday, March 29	Friday, November 1
Taiwan	All locations	Taipei	No DST in 2013
Tajikistan	All locations	Dushanbe	No DST in 2013
Tanzania	All locations	Dar es Salaam	No DST in 2013
Thailand	All locations	Bangkok	No DST in 2013
The Bahamas	All locations	Nassau	Sunday, March 10	Sunday, November 3
The Gambia	All locations	Banjul	No DST in 2013
Togo	All locations	Lome	No DST in 2013
Tokelau	All locations	Fakaofo	No DST in 2013
Tonga	All locations	Nukualofa	No DST in 2013
Trinidad and Tobago	All locations	Port of Spain	No DST in 2013
Tunisia	All locations	Tunis	No DST in 2013
Turkey	All locations	Ankara	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
Turkmenistan	All locations	Ashgabat	No DST in 2013
Turks and Caicos Islands	All locations	Cockburn Town	Sunday, March 10	Sunday, November 3
Tuvalu	All locations	Funafuti	No DST in 2013
Uganda	All locations	Kampala	No DST in 2013
Ukraine	All locations	Kyiv	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
United Arab Emirates	All locations	Dubai	No DST in 2013
United Kingdom	All locations	London	Sunday, March 31	Sunday, October 27
United States	Most locations	Washington DC	Sunday, March 10	Sunday, November 3
United States	Hawaii, Arizona, Midway Islands, Wake Island	Honolulu	No DST in 2013
Uruguay	All locations	Montevideo	Sunday, October 6	Sunday, March 10
US Virgin Islands	All locations	Charlotte Amalie	No DST in 2013
Uzbekistan	All locations	Tashkent	No DST in 2013
Vanuatu	All locations	Port Vila	No DST in 2013
Venezuela	All locations	Caracas	No DST in 2013
Vietnam	All locations	Hanoi	No DST in 2013
Wallis and Futuna	All locations	Mata-Utu	No DST in 2013
West Bank	All locations	Bethlehem	Friday, March 29	Friday, September 27
Western Sahara	All locations	El Aaiún	Sunday, April 28*	Sunday, September 29*
Yemen	All locations	Sana	No DST in 2013
Zambia	All locations	Lusaka	No DST in 2013
Zimbabwe	All locations	Harare	No DST in 2013

Daylight Saving Time statistics for 2013

Daylight Saving Time observance?	Count
Countries and territories which do not observe DST at all	161
Countries and territories where at least one location observe DST	78
–Countries and territories where all locations observe DST some part of the year	67
–Countries and territories where many, but not all locations observe DST	10
–Countries and territories which observe DST all year	1

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