Central European Time
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Time zones of Europe in relation to UTC:
Light colours indicate countries that do not observe summer time.
| blue | Western European Time (UTC+0) Western European Summer Time (UTC+1) |
| light blue | Western European Time (UTC+0) |
| red | Central European Time (UTC+1) Central European Summer Time (UTC+2) |
| yellow | Eastern European Time (UTC+2) Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3) |
| orange | Kaliningrad Time (UTC+3) |
| green | Moscow Time (UTC+4) |
Central European Time is a time zone. It is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (what used to be called Greenwich Mean Time). Most countries in the central part of Europe and some countries in Africa follow it.
In Europe, the countries of Ireland, Great Britain, Iceland and Portugal use Western European Time. All the other countries, up to Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and North Macedonia use Central European Time.
Algeria and Tunisia in Africa use CET but do not observe daylight saving time.
Central European Time Media
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European Countries that use the Central Europe Time plus Longitude 15° E
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The '15th Meridian' monument in Stargard, Poland
Difference between legal time and local mean time in Europe during the summer.