Also known as: CEDT – Central European Daylight Time, ECST – European Central Summer Time
Central European Summer Time (CEST) is 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This time zone is a Daylight Saving Time time zone and is used in: Europe, Antarctica.
Where and When is CEST Observed?
Europe
European countries using CEST in the summer and CET in 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
Antarctica
Locations in Antarctica using CEST in the winter and GMT in the summer:
Other Time Zones in UTC +2
Some time zones exist that have the same offset as CEST, but can be found under a different name: