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Europe/Warsaw

Europe/Warsaw is the IANA time zone for Poland.

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
Poland (old ids that resolve to Europe/Warsaw)

Use it in code

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

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

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

Cities in Europe/Warsaw

Also in this zone: Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, Gdańsk, Szczecin, Lublin, Bydgoszcz, Białystok, Katowice, Gdynia, Częstochowa, Sosnowiec, Radom, Mokotów, Gliwice, Rzeszów.

Offset history since 1970

  • 1970–1976: UTC+1
  • 1977–2026: UTC+1 and UTC+2 each year

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