What is Eastern European Time?
You need to keep in mind that this time zone is an identifier for a time offset that is 2 hours ahead of the
UTC time zone.
This time pattern is maintained using highly accurate atomic clocks matched to the Earth's rotation.
In this section, you will learn key facts about this time zone and stay well informed.
The IANA time zone identifier used is Etc/GMT-2.
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Abbreviation: EET Time
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Time Offset: UTC+2, UTC+02:00
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Standard Time Ends: Last Sunday in March (clocks go forward one hour).
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Standard Time Began: Last Sunday in October (clocks went back one hour).
What is Eastern European Time Zone Right Now?
This time zone is a time offset that adds 2 hours to
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
In the map above we highlight the entire region covered by this time zone.
Its main cities and territories are:
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Athens
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Helsinki
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Tallinn
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Riga
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Vilnius
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Bucharest
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Kiev
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Damascus
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Beirut
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Amman
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Aleppo (Syria)
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Brașov (Romania)
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Chișinău (Moldova)
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Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
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Constanța (Romania)
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Daugavpils (Latvia)
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Dnipro (Ukraine)
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Gaza (Palestine)
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Iași (Romania)
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Kaunas (Lithuania)
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Kharkiv (Ukraine)
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Nicosia (Cyprus)
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Odessa (Ukraine)
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Oradea (Romania)
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Oulu (Finland)
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Plovdiv (Bulgaria)
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Ramallah (Palestine)
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Sofia (Bulgaria)
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Tampere (Finland)
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Thessaloniki (Greece)
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Timișoara (Romania)
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Turku (Finland)
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Varna (Bulgaria)
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Benghazi (Libya)
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Tripoli (Libya)
In the map above we highlight the entire region covered by the time zone.
This time offset is also observed during standard time and daylight saving time for various geographic regions.
You need to be very careful finding these time zones that may have different names and abbreviations, but have the same UTC offset:
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Central Africa Time (CAT)
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Central European Summer Time (CEST)
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Heure Avancée d'Europe Centrale (HAEC)
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Israel Standard Time (IST)
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Kaliningrad Time (KALT)
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Middle European Summer Time (MEST)
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South African Standard Time (SAST)
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West Africa Summer Time (WAST)
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Bravo Time Zone (B)
Main Countries
This time zone is used in the following countries:
Since political, in addition to purely geographical, criteria are used in the drawing of time zones, it follows that this time zone do not precisely adhere to meridian lines.
This is why there are European locations that are in another time zone, despite being in an area with physical time UTC+02:00.
On the other hand, there are also European areas that have opted for UTC+02:00, although their physical time zone is different.
Current Eastern European Time with seconds according to the official atomic clock.
