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Time zone in Czechia

Czechia uses a single time zone: Central European Standard Time (CET, UTC+1) in winter and Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+2) in summer. Every clock in the country shows the same time.

Prague lies at 14.4° east, where mean solar time is UTC+0:58 (four minutes per degree of longitude). That is within 2 min of its standard time, so the sun is highest close to noon in winter, and about 1:00 PM in summer.

Daylight saving time in Czechia

Yes. Czechia moves its clocks forward one hour on the last Sunday of March at 2:00 AM and back on the last Sunday of October at 3:00 AM (local time).

The dates come from EU Directive 2000/84/EC, which makes every member state change at the same instant, 1:00 a.m. GMT. The plan to end the changes has been stalled in the Council since 2019; the daylight saving time page explains it.

All coming change dates are on the Europe/Prague page.

Clock history of Czechia

The record begins with local mean time (clocks set by the sun, UTC+0:58 in Prague), which ended on January 1, 1850, when PMT (UTC+0:58) replaced it. Between 1970 and 2024, a daylight saving period began in 46 of the 55 years. The first summer time in the record dates from 1916. The table summarises the clocks of Czechia year by year since 1970, from the tzdata entry Europe/Prague.

Rows from 2027 on follow the rules in tzdata 2026f; a government decision would change them in the next release.

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Time difference between Czechia and major cities

• In 2027, Czechia is 5 h ahead of New York from March 14 to March 27 and from October 31 to November 6, instead of 6 h ahead of New York as during the rest of the year, because the two places change their clocks on different dates.
• In 2027, Czechia is 8 h ahead of Los Angeles from March 14 to March 27 and from October 31 to November 6, instead of 9 h ahead of Los Angeles as during the rest of the year, because the two places change their clocks on different dates.
• In 2027, Czechia is 9 h behind Sydney from March 28 to April 3 and from October 3 to October 30: the weeks between the two seasons, when one place has changed its clocks and the other has not yet.

Office hours and calls

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A 9-to-5 day in Czechia overlaps New York’s for 2 h in January (3:00 PM–5:00 PM Czechia time) and the same in July. At 9:00 AM in Czechia it is 3:00 AM in New York.

A 9-to-5 day in Czechia overlaps London’s for 7 h in January (10:00 AM–5:00 PM Czechia time) and the same in July. At 9:00 AM in Czechia it is 8:00 AM in London.

A 9-to-5 day in Czechia overlaps New Delhi’s for 3 h 30 min in January (9:00 AM–12:30 PM Czechia time), 4 h 30 min in July. At 9:00 AM in Czechia it is 1:30 PM in New Delhi.

Neighbouring time zones

The nearest large cities on a different clock, with the straight-line distance from Prague and the difference now.

Same clock as Czechia

These places keep exactly the same time as Czechia all year under the current rules (zones Africa/Ceuta, Europe/Andorra, Europe/Belgrade, Europe/Berlin, Europe/Brussels and 10 more).

• BerlinDE
• MadridES
• RomeIT
• ParisFR
• HamburgDE
• BudapestHU
• WarsawPL
• ViennaAT
• BarcelonaES
• StockholmSE
• MunichDE
• MilanIT

Cities in Czechia

• Prague

Czechia at a glance

• CapitalPrague
• Population10,886,878
• Time zone IDEurope/Prague
• Standard timeCET (UTC+1)
• Daylight saving timeCEST (UTC+2)
• Calling code+420

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