UTC to CET Converter

UTC to CET Conversion Table

Full 24-hour table. CET is UTC+1 and CEST is UTC+2 (last Sunday in March to last Sunday in October).

* From 23:00 UTC on CET (22:00 UTC on CEST) the Central European time falls on the next calendar day.

CET Is Not All of Europe

Central European Time covers most of the continent's middle, but not London, Lisbon, Athens or Istanbul. The offsets on two dates in 2026:

London is always one hour behind Paris or Berlin, Athens is one hour ahead of them, and Istanbul matches Athens only in summer. Spain's Canary Islands are on the London offset, not on CET.

A Central European Workday in UTC

A 9-to-5 day in Paris or Berlin sits on the same UTC date all year, one hour earlier in UTC in summer than in winter:

The Two Changes

Converting a Timestamp in Code

# Python 3.9+
from datetime import datetime
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
datetime.fromisoformat("2026-03-01T15:00:00+00:00").astimezone(ZoneInfo("Europe/Paris"))

// JavaScript
new Date("2026-03-01T15:00:00Z").toLocaleString("en-US", { timeZone: "Europe/Paris" })

Both give the CET time shown above.

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