Time in Europe: Light Blue Western European Time / Greenwich Mean Time (UTC) Blue Western European Time / Greenwich Mean Time (UTC) Western European Summer Time / British Summer Time / Irish Standard Time (UTC+1) Red Central European Time (UTC+1) Central European Summer Time (UTC+2) Yellow Eastern European Time / Kaliningrad Time (UTC+2) Ochre Eastern European Time (UTC+2) Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3) Green Moscow Time / Turkey Time (UTC+3) Turquoise Armenia Time / Azerbaijan Time / Georgia Time / Samara Time (UTC+4) Pink Kazakhstan Time / Yekaterinburg Time (UTC+5) ▉▉▉▉ Pale hues: Standard time observed all year ▉▉▉ Dark hues: Daylight saving time
Time in Africa: Light Blue Cape Verde Time[a] (UTC−1) Blue Greenwich Mean Time (UTC) Red Central European TimeWest Africa Time (UTC+1)[b] Yellow Central Africa TimeEastern European TimeSouth African Standard Time (UTC+2) Ochre Egypt Standard Time (UTC+2) Egypt Summer Time (UTC+3) Green East Africa Time (UTC+3) Turquoise Mauritius Time[d]Seychelles Time[d] (UTC+4) a The islands of Cape Verde lie west of the African mainland. b During Ramadan, Morocco switches to Greenwich Mean Time (UTC) and returns to UTC+1 after it ends. d Mauritius and the Seychelles lie to the east and northeast of Madagascar, respectively.
Time in the Middle East: Offset Zone(s) UTC+2 Eastern European TimeIsrael Standard TimePalestine Standard Time UTC+3 Eastern European Summer TimeIsrael Summer TimePalestine Summer Time UTC+3 Arabia Standard TimeTurkey Time UTC+3:30 Iran Standard Time UTC+4 Gulf Standard Time Standard time observed all year Daylight saving time observed

Eastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of the UTC+02:00 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. The zone uses daylight saving time, so that it uses UTC+03:00 during the summer.

A number of African countries use UTC+02:00 all year long, where it is called Central Africa Time (CAT), although Egypt and Libya also use the term Eastern European Time.

The most populous city in the Eastern European Time zone is Cairo, with the most populous EET city in Europe being Kyiv.

Usage

The following countries, parts of countries, and territories use Eastern European Time all year round:

The following countries, parts of countries, and territories use Eastern European Time during the winter only:

The following countries, parts of countries, and territories used Eastern European Time in the past:

  • Moscow used EET in the years 1922–30 and 1991–92.
  • Belarus, in the years 1922–30 and 1990–2011
  • Jordan used EET until permanently switching to DST in 2022.
  • In Poland, this time was used in the years 1919–22.
  • Crimea used EET as part of Ukraine between 1991–1994 and 1996–2014 and started using Moscow Time because of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014.
  • Syria used EET until permanently switching to DST in 2022.
  • Turkey, used EET in the years 1910–1978 and re-used it again in the years 1985–2016.

Sometimes, because it is used on Microsoft Windows, FLE Standard Time (for Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, or sometimes Finland, Latvia, Estonia) or GTB Standard Time (for Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria) is used to refer to Eastern European Time.

Anomalies

Since political, in addition to purely geographical, criteria are used in the drawing of time zones, it follows that time zones do not precisely adhere to meridian lines. The EET (UTC+02:00) time zone, were it drawn by purely geographical terms, would consist of exactly the area between meridians 22°30' E and 37°30' E. As a result, there are European locales that despite lying in an area with a "physical" UTC+02:00 time, are in another time zone; likewise, there are European areas that have gone for UTC+02:00, even though their "physical" time zone is different from that. Following is a list of such anomalies:

Areas outside UTC+02:00 longitudes using Eastern European Time (UTC+02:00) time

ColourLegal time vs local mean time
1 h ± 30 m behind
0 h ± 30 m
1 h ± 30 m ahead
2 h ± 30 m ahead
3 h ± 30 m ahead

Areas west of 22°30' E ("physical" UTC+01:00) that use UTC+02:00

Areas east of 37°30' E ("physical" UTC+03:00) that use UTC+02:00

Areas within UTC+02:00 longitudes (22°30' E – 37°30' E) using other time zones

Areas that use UTC+01:00

These areas have sunrises and sunsets at least half an hour earlier than places on the UTC+01:00 meridian.

Areas that use UTC+03:00

Most of the following countries use winter time year round, so they coincide with Eastern European Summer Time in summer.

  • Belarus is between 23°11′E and 32°47′E and is thus fully within the physical UTC+02:00 area, but it uses UTC+03:00 year around.
  • Practically all European Russia west of Moscow (except Kaliningrad Oblast); this includes the chunk of land from Murmansk all the way south to Belgorod, including the cities of St. Petersburg, Novgorod, and Pskov, to name only a few. (The westernmost point of contiguous Russia, near Lavry, Pskov Oblast, 27°19' E, is the westernmost point in European Russia where UTC+03:00 is applied.) This also includes the city of Anapa, at the westernmost tip of the Krasnodar Krai near the entrance to the Sea of Azov, at 37°22' E.
  • Parts of western Syria, including the capital Damascus
  • Most of Jordan, including the capital Amman
  • Western half of Turkey, including the capital Ankara and the most populous city Istanbul

Tripoints and borders between zones

  • The Norway–Russia–Finland "tri-zone" point at Muotkavaara (see Central European Time) is surrounded by three different times in winter, two in summer. It had three time zones year-around before 2014.
  • Two of the four tripoints of Belarus and the tripoint of the Kaliningrad Region are surrounded by three different times in winter.

Major metropolitan areas

Winter only

Year round