UTC+02:00

UTC+02:00
Time zone
World map with the time zone highlighted
UTC offset
UTC	UTC+02:00
Current time
02:25, 18 March 2026 UTC+02:00 [refresh]
Central meridian
30 degrees E
Date-time group
B

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)

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]

Central Africa

• 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]

Europe

• Russia
  • Northwestern Federal District
    • Kaliningrad Oblast^[19]

As standard time (Northern Hemisphere winter only)

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]

Europe

Eastern Europe

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

Asia

West Asia

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

• Israel
• Lebanon

Africa

North Africa

Principal cities: Cairo

• Egypt^[22]

As daylight saving time (Northern Hemisphere summer only)

Europe

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

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

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

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

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

References

1. "ISO 8601 Date and time format". ISO.
2. Wolf, Misha; Wicksteed, Charles. "Date and Time Formats". W3C.
3. "Africa/Khartoum: Time Zone in Sudan, Current local time". Time Difference.
4. "Current Local Time in Gaborone, Botswana". www.timeanddate.com.
5. "Time in Bujumbura, Burundi". 24timezones.com.
6. "Current Local Time in Cairo, Egypt". www.timeanddate.com.
7. "Current Local Time in Mbabane, eSwatini". www.timeanddate.com.
8. "Current Local Time in Maseru, Lesotho". www.timeanddate.com.
9. "Time Zone & Clock Changes in Tripoli, Libya". www.timeanddate.com.
10. "Malawi Fact File". www.destination-malawi.com. Archived from the original on 2019-04-18.
11. "Flag of Mozambique image and meaning Mozambique flag". country flags. Archived from the original on 2019-04-18.
12. "Time in Namibia: What is the current local time now in Namibia?". greenwichmeantime.com.
13. "Rwanda Time Zone - Rwanda Current Time". www.timetemperature.com. Archived from the original on 2019-04-18.
14. "South Africa Standard Time Zone - SAST". WorldTimeServer.com. 2015-12-09.
15. "Time on Juba, South Sudan". timeanddate.com.
16. "Current Local Time in Khartoum, Sudan". www.timeanddate.com.
17. "Zambia, Africa: Current Local Time & Date, Time Zone and Difference". Time Difference.
18. "Time in Harare, Zimbabwe". 24timezones.com.
19. "Current Local Time in Kaliningrad, Russia". www.timeanddate.com.
20. "Europe/Kyiv: Time Zone in Ukraine, Current local time". Time Difference.
21. "EET – Eastern European Time (Time Zone Abbreviation)". www.timeanddate.com.
22. "Egypt to reapply daylight-saving time annually to rationalise use of energy". Ahram. 1 March 2023.
23. "CEST – Central European Summer Time (Time Zone Abbreviation)". timeanddate.com.
24. "Europe Time Zone Map". WorldTimeZone.com.

External links

• Media related to UTC+02:00 at Wikimedia Commons