Europe/Berlin

Europe/Berlin is the IANA time zone for most of Germany in Germany.

UTC+02:00

Tue, Sep 29 UTC+2 CEST

Offsets and daylight saving time

Standard offset: UTC+01:00
Daylight offset: UTC+02:00
Rule: Daylight saving time from the last Sunday in March at 02:00 to the last Sunday in October at 03:00 (local time).

Next clock changes

Sunday, October 25, 2026 at 03:00: back to UTC+1 (CEST → CET)
Sunday, March 28, 2027 at 02:00: forward to UTC+2 (CET → CEST)

Names

Generic name: Central European Time
Abbreviation: CET / CEST
Standard / daylight: Central European Standard Time / Central European Summer Time
Aliases: Atlantic/Jan_Mayen (old ids that resolve to Europe/Berlin)

Use it in code

// JavaScript
new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Europe/Berlin' })

# Python
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
ZoneInfo('Europe/Berlin')

-- PostgreSQL
SELECT now() AT TIME ZONE 'Europe/Berlin';

Cities in Europe/Berlin

Also in this zone: Frankfurt am Main, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Essen, Dortmund, Dresden, Bremen, Nuremberg, Hannover, Leipzig, Duisburg, Bochum, Wuppertal, Bielefeld.

Offset history since 1970

1970–1979: UTC+1
1980–2026: UTC+1 and UTC+2 each year

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