Exact time now, time zone, time difference, sunrise/sunset time and key facts for central european summer time (cest). Discover everything about the cest time zone, including its current time, utc offset, and the countries that observe cest. 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 Central european time (cet) is 01:00 hours ahead of coordinated universal (utc) time. Use these time zone converters to instantly find the time in another location when it's a specific time in cest
Convert or compare cest (central european summer time) with other cities and time zones using the time converter below. Since 1996, european summer time has been observed between 01:00 utc (02:00 cet and 03:00 cest) on the last sunday of march, and 01:00 utc on the last sunday of october Previously the rules were not uniform across the european union. Cest has automatically switched to cet
