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] This time is used in:

UTC+02:00
Time zone
World map with the time zone highlighted
UTC offset
UTCUTC+02:00
Current time
04:45, 19 March 2024 UTC+02:00 [refresh]
Central meridian
30 degrees E
Date-time group
B
UTC+02:00 2010: blue (December), orange (June), yellow (year-round), light blue (sea areas)
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)
 Pale colours: Standard time observed all year
 Dark colours: Summer time observed
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 zones of Africa:
Light Blue Cape Verde Time[a] (UTC−1)
Blue Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)
Red (UTC+1)
Ochre (UTC+2)
Green East Africa Time (UTC+3)
Turquoise (UTC+4)
a The islands of Cape Verde are to the west of the African mainland.
b Mauritius and the Seychelles are to the east and north-east of Madagascar respectively.
Time in the Middle East
    UTC+02:00 Egypt Standard Time
    UTC+02:00

UTC+03:00
Eastern European Time /
Israel Standard Time /
Eastern European Summer Time /
Israel Summer Time
    UTC+03:00 Arabia Standard Time /
Turkey Time
    UTC+03:30 Iran Standard Time
    UTC+04:00 Gulf Standard Time
Standard time observed all year
Daylight saving time observed

As standard time (year-round)

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

Africa

  • Egypt

Central Africa

Europe

As standard time (Northern Hemisphere winter only)

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

Europe

Eastern Europe

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

Asia

Middle East

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

  • Israel
  • Lebanon
  • Palestine

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, Zürich, Geneva, Bern, Brussels, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Luxembourg, Valletta, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Warsaw, Prague, Zagreb, Budapest, Tirana, Sarajevo, Pristina, Podgorica, Skopje, Belgrade, Bratislava, Ljubljana[22]

  • Albania
  • Andorra
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Croatia
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • France
  • Germany
  • Hungary
  • Italy
  • Kosovo
  • Liechtenstein
  • Luxembourg
  • Malta
  • Monaco
  • Montenegro
  • Netherlands
  • North Macedonia
  • Norway (including Svalbard and Jan Mayen)
  • Poland
  • San Marino
  • Serbia
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Spain[23] (Excluding Canary Islands)
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Gibraltar (United Kingdom)
  • 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
  • Uganda
  • Kenya
    • The western part, including nation's capital Nairobi
  • Ethiopia
  • Saudi Arabia
    • The northwesternmost part, including Tabuk
  • Turkey
    • Most part in the country, including Istanbul
  • Ukraine
    • Part of Donetsk and Luhansk regions
  • Belarus
  • Russia

Using UTC+01:00:

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:

References

  1. ^ "ISO 8601 Date and time format". ISO. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  2. ^ Wolf, Misha; Wicksteed, Charles. "Date and Time Formats". W3C. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  3. ^ "Africa/Khartoum: Time Zone in Sudan, Current local time". Time Difference. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  4. ^ "Current Local Time in Gaborone, Botswana". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  5. ^ "Time in Bujumbura, Burundi". 24timezones.com. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  6. ^ "Current Local Time in Cairo, Egypt". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  7. ^ "Current Local Time in Mbabane, eSwatini". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  8. ^ "Current Local Time in Maseru, Lesotho". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  9. ^ "Time Zone & Clock Changes in Tripoli, Libya". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  10. ^ "Malawi Fact File". www.destination-malawi.com. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  11. ^ "Flag of Mozambique image and meaning Mozambique flag". country flags. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  12. ^ "Time in Namibia: What is the current local time now in Namibia?". greenwichmeantime.com. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  13. ^ "Rwanda Time Zone - Rwanda Current Time". www.timetemperature.com. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  14. ^ "South Africa Standard Time Zone - SAST". WorldTimeServer.com. 2015-12-09. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  15. ^ "Current Local Time in Khartoum, Sudan". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  16. ^ "Time on Juba, South Sudan". timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2020-02-01.
  17. ^ "Zambia, Africa: Current Local Time & Date, Time Zone and Difference". Time Difference. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  18. ^ "Time in Harare, Zimbabwe". 24timezones.com. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  19. ^ "Current Local Time in Kaliningrad, Russia". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  20. ^ "Europe/Kyiv: Time Zone in Ukraine, Current local time". Time Difference. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  21. ^ "EET – Eastern European Time (Time Zone Abbreviation)". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  22. ^ "CEST – Central European Summer Time (Time Zone Abbreviation)". timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
  23. ^ "Europe Time Zone Map". WorldTimeZone.com. Retrieved 21 April 2014.

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