Current Time in CET (Central European Time)

About Central European Time (Paris) (CET/CEST)

Central European Time is used across most of continental Europe, including France, Germany, Spain, and Italy, making it one of the most widely shared timezones in the world by number of countries.

It shifts to Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+2) for daylight saving, on the same EU-wide schedule as the UK's BST shift (though the clocks differ by an hour).

• UTC offset: UTC+1 (CET) / UTC+2 (CEST)
• Daylight saving: Central European Time observes daylight saving as CEST (UTC+2) from late March to late October, reverting to CET (UTC+1) the rest of the year.
• Common cities/regions: Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Amsterdam