UTC+02:00 (original) (raw)

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Identifier for a time offset from UTC of +2

UTC+02:00
Time zone
World map with the time zone highlighted
UTC offset
UTC	UTC+02:00
Current time
10:24, 18 May 2026 UTC+02:00 [refresh]
Central meridian
30 degrees E
Date-time group
B

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 Russia

| | KALT | Kaliningrad Time | UTC+2 | (MSK−1) | | ------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- | ------- | | | MSK | Moscow Time | UTC+3 | (MSK±0) | | | SAMT | Samara Time | UTC+4 | (MSK+1) | | | YEKT | Yekaterinburg Time | UTC+5 | (MSK+2) | | | OMST | Omsk Time | UTC+6 | (MSK+3) | | | KRAT | Krasnoyarsk Time | UTC+7 | (MSK+4) | | | IRKT | Irkutsk Time | UTC+8 | (MSK+5) | | | YAKT | Yakutsk Time | UTC+9 | (MSK+6) | | | VLAT | Vladivostok Time | UTC+10 | (MSK+7) | | | MAGT | Magadan Time | UTC+11 | (MSK+8) | | | PETT | Kamchatka Time | UTC+12 | (MSK+9) |

Time in Africa:

Light Blue	Cape Verde Time [a] (UTC−1)
Blue	Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)
Red	Central European Time West Africa Time (UTC+1)[b]
Yellow	Central Africa Time Eastern European Time South 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 Time Israel Standard Time Palestine Standard Time | | UTC+3 | Eastern European Summer Time Israel Summer Time Palestine Summer Time | | | UTC+3 | Arabia Standard Time Turkey Time | | | UTC+3:30 | Iran Standard Time | | | UTC+4 | Gulf Standard Time |

UTC+02:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +02:00. In ISO 8601, the associated time would be written as 2020-11-08T23:41:45+02:00.[1][2]

As standard time (year-round)

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Principal cities: Pretoria, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Khartoum, Lubumbashi, Kigali, Gaborone, Bujumbura, Manzini, Maseru, Tripoli, Lilongwe, Maputo, Windhoek, Omdurman, Juba, Lusaka, Harare, Kaliningrad [3]

Botswana[4]
Burundi[5]
Democratic Republic of the Congo
- The provinces of Bas-Uélé, Haut-Katanga, Haut-Lomami, Haut-Uélé, Kasaï, Kasaï Occidental, Kasaï Oriental, Katanga, Lomami, Lualaba, Maniema, Nord-Kivu, Orientale, Sankuru, Sud-Kivu, Tanganyika, Tshopo, and Ituri Interim Administration [6]
Eswatini[7]
Lesotho[8]
Libya[9]
Malawi[10]
Mozambique[11]
Namibia[12]
Rwanda[13]
South Africa (except Prince Edward Islands)[14]
South Sudan[15]
Sudan[16]
Zambia[17]
Zimbabwe[18]
Russia
- Northwestern Federal District
  * Kaliningrad Oblast [19]

As standard time (Northern Hemisphere winter only)

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Principal cities: Athens, Thessaloniki, Nicosia, North Nicosia, Helsinki, Turku, Mariehamn, Kyiv, Bucharest, Jerusalem, Tallinn, Sofia, Riga, Vilnius, Chișinău, Tiraspol, Lviv, Dnipro, Luhansk, Donetsk, Odesa, Kaunas, Klaipėda [20]

Most countries observe European Union rule to remove DST.[21]

Bulgaria
Cyprus
Estonia
Finland
- Åland
Greece
Latvia
Lithuania
Moldova
Romania
Ukraine
- Except Crimea (occupied by Russia), Luhansk and part of Donetsk regions
United Kingdom
- Akrotiri and Dhekelia

Principal cities: Jerusalem, Beirut, Tel Aviv, Gaza, Bethlehem

Israel
Lebanon
Palestine

Principal cities: Cairo

Egypt[22]

As daylight saving time (Northern Hemisphere summer only)

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Principal cities: Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Dortmund, Essen, Bremen, Hanover, Mainz, Rome, Milan, Naples, Venice, Florence, Palermo, Turin, Genoa, Vatican City, San Marino, Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes, Lyon, Lille, Montpellier, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Nice, Monaco, Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Málaga, Bilbao, Andorra, Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Zurich, Geneva, Bern, Brussels, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Luxembourg, Valletta, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Warsaw, Prague, Zagreb, Budapest, Tirana, Sarajevo, Pristina, Podgorica, Skopje, Belgrade, Bratislava, Ljubljana [23]

Albania
Andorra
Austria
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
Germany
Gibraltar (British Overseas Territory)
Hungary
Italy
Kosovo
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Malta
Monaco
Montenegro
Netherlands
North Macedonia
Norway (including Svalbard and Jan Mayen)
Poland
San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain[24] (Excluding Canary Islands)
Sweden
Switzerland
Vatican City

Discrepancies between official UTC+02:00 and geographical UTC+02:00

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Areas in UTC+02:00 longitudes using other time zones

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Using UTC+03:00:

Tanzania
- The western part, including Mwanza and Mbeya
Uganda
Kenya
- The western part, including nation's capital Nairobi
Ethiopia
- The western part, including Nekemte and Jimma
Saudi Arabia
- The northwesternmost part, including Tabuk
Turkey
- Most part in the country, including Istanbul
Ukraine
- Part of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Crimea
Belarus
Russia
- The western part, including Saint Petersburg, half of Moscow

Using UTC+01:00:

North Macedonia (standard time)
- The easternmost part, including Novo Selo and Berovo
Serbia (standard time)
- The very easternmost part, including Pirot
Hungary (standard time)
- The northeasternmost part of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
Slovakia (standard time)
- The easternmost part of Prešov Region
Poland (standard time)
- The easternmost part, including Białystok
Norway (standard time)
- Most part of Finnmark
- The easternmost part of Svalbard
Chad
- The westernmost part of Ennedi-Est, including Amdjarass
Democratic Republic of the Congo
- The easternmost part of its provinces:
  * Nord-Ubangi
  * Mongala
  * Tshuapa
  * Kasaï Province
Angola
- The westernmost part of Moxico Province
Central African Republic
- Haut-Mbomou
- The western part of its prefectures:
  * Mbomou
  * Haute-Kotto
  * Vakaga

Areas outside UTC+02:00 longitudes using UTC+02:00 time

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Areas between 7°30' E and 22°30' E ("physical" UTC+01:00)

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From south to north:

South Africa
- The westernmost part, including Cape Town
Botswana
- The western part of the districts:
  * Kgalagadi
  * Ghanzi
  * Ngamiland
Democratic Republic of the Congo
- The very westernmost part of Lualaba Province, Kasaï-Central and Sankuru
Libya
- The most part in the country, where the nation's capital Tripoli is
Greece (standard time)
- The western part, including Patras and Ioanina
Romania (standard time)
- The westernmost part, including Timişoara
Russia
- Kaliningrad Oblast
Lithuania (standard time)
- The westernmost part, including Klaipėda
Latvia (standard time)
- The westernmost part, including Liepāja
Estonia (standard time)
- The westernmost parts of the Saare and Hiiu counties.
Finland (standard time)
- The westernmost part, including Turku

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