UTC+2 time now
3:40PM
UTC+2
+7 h vs New York (you)CEST · EET · WAST · CAT · SAST
About UTC+2
UTC+2 is 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time: when it is noon UTC, it is 2:00 PM at UTC+2.
7 zones keep UTC+2 all year, covering 16 countries or territories.
16 zones use it only in winter and move to UTC+3 in summer, for example Cairo, Kyiv and Beirut.
17 zones reach it only in summer, from standard time UTC+1, for example Berlin, Madrid and Rome. So the set of places on UTC+2 changes twice a year.
For a fixed offset in software, tzdata provides Etc/GMT-2; note the inverted sign of these POSIX-style names.
Abbreviations for UTC+2: CEST (Central European Summer Time), EET (Eastern European Time), WAST (West Africa Summer Time), CAT (Central Africa Time), SAST (South Africa Standard Time).
UTC+2 and the sun
Across the large cities that keep UTC+2 all year, the clock runs 43 minutes behind mean solar time in Nacala (40.7°) and 69 minutes ahead of it in Zawiya (12.7°). The offset’s own meridian is 30° east: the further a city lies from it, the further its clocks drift from the sun.
Neighbouring offsets: UTC+1 (Kinshasa and Algiers) and UTC+3 (Istanbul and Moscow).
Zones that moved to or from UTC+2 since 1970
Changes of the winter (standard) offset recorded in tzdata; ordinary seasonal daylight saving changes are not counted:
- Friday, March 25, 2022: Aleppo (Asia/Damascus) moved from UTC+2 to UTC+3
- Friday, February 25, 2022: Amman (Asia/Amman) moved from UTC+2 to UTC+3
- Monday, February 1, 2021: Juba (Africa/Juba) moved from UTC+3 to UTC+2
- Wednesday, November 1, 2017: Khartoum (Africa/Khartoum) moved from UTC+3 to UTC+2
- Sunday, September 3, 2017: Windhoek (Africa/Windhoek) moved from UTC+1 to UTC+2
- Sunday, March 27, 2016: Istanbul (Europe/Istanbul) moved from UTC+2 to UTC+3
- Sunday, October 26, 2014: Kaliningrad (Europe/Kaliningrad) moved from UTC+3 to UTC+2
- Sunday, March 30, 2014: Sevastopol (Europe/Simferopol) moved from UTC+2 to UTC+4
- Sunday, March 27, 2011: Kaliningrad (Europe/Kaliningrad) moved from UTC+2 to UTC+3
- Sunday, March 27, 2011: Minsk (Europe/Minsk) moved from UTC+2 to UTC+3
- Sunday, March 27, 2005: Troll (Antarctica/Troll) moved from UTC+0 to UTC+2
- Saturday, January 15, 2000: Juba (Africa/Juba) moved from UTC+2 to UTC+3
- Saturday, January 15, 2000: Khartoum (Africa/Khartoum) moved from UTC+2 to UTC+3
- Sunday, October 26, 1997: Sevastopol (Europe/Simferopol) moved from UTC+3 to UTC+2
Since when UTC+2 has been used
The tzdata record of each zone that keeps UTC+2 as its standard time, with the date it moved to UTC+2 and the time it kept before. The earliest is Beirut, on UTC+2 since Thursday, January 1, 1880; the most recent is Juba, since Monday, February 1, 2021.
| Zone | On UTC+2 since | Before |
|---|---|---|
| Beirut Asia/Beirut | Thursday, January 1, 1880 | local mean time (UTC+2:22) |
| East Jerusalem Asia/Hebron | Sunday, September 30, 1900 | local mean time (UTC+2:20) |
| Gaza Asia/Gaza | Monday, October 1, 1900 | local mean time (UTC+2:18) |
| Cairo Africa/Cairo | Sunday, September 30, 1900 | local mean time (UTC+2:05) |
| Johannesburg Africa/Johannesburg | Sunday, March 1, 1903 | UTC+1:30 (SAST) |
| Windhoek Africa/Windhoek | Sunday, March 1, 1903 | UTC+1:30 |
| Lubumbashi Africa/Maputo | Thursday, December 31, 1908 | local mean time (UTC+2:10) |
| Jerusalem Asia/Jerusalem | Tuesday, January 1, 1918 | UTC+2:21 (JMT) |
| Helsinki Europe/Helsinki | Sunday, May 1, 1921 | UTC+1:40 (HMT) |
| Nicosia Asia/Nicosia | Sunday, November 13, 1921 | local mean time (UTC+2:13) |
| Bucharest Europe/Bucharest | Thursday, July 23, 1931 | UTC+1:44 (BMT) |
| Athens Europe/Athens | Tuesday, April 4, 1944 | UTC+1 (CET) |
| Sofia Europe/Sofia | Monday, April 2, 1945 | UTC+1 (CET) |
| Riga Europe/Riga | Sunday, September 24, 1989 | UTC+3 (MSK) |
And 9 more zones.
UTC+2 converted to other offsets
Fixed offsets only, so the table holds on any date; a city that observes daylight saving time is an hour later than its standard column in summer.
| UTC+2 | UTC (UTC+0) | EST (UTC−5) | PST (UTC−8) | CET (UTC+1) | IST (UTC+5:30) | JST (UTC+9) | AEST (UTC+10) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 AM | 10:00 PM (−1 day) | 5:00 PM (−1 day) | 2:00 PM (−1 day) | 11:00 PM (−1 day) | 3:30 AM | 7:00 AM | 8:00 AM |
| 6:00 AM | 4:00 AM | 11:00 PM (−1 day) | 8:00 PM (−1 day) | 5:00 AM | 9:30 AM | 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM |
| 9:00 AM | 7:00 AM | 2:00 AM | 11:00 PM (−1 day) | 8:00 AM | 12:30 PM | 4:00 PM | 5:00 PM |
| 12:00 PM | 10:00 AM | 5:00 AM | 2:00 AM | 11:00 AM | 3:30 PM | 7:00 PM | 8:00 PM |
| 3:00 PM | 1:00 PM | 8:00 AM | 5:00 AM | 2:00 PM | 6:30 PM | 10:00 PM | 11:00 PM |
| 6:00 PM | 4:00 PM | 11:00 AM | 8:00 AM | 5:00 PM | 9:30 PM | 1:00 AM (+1 day) | 2:00 AM (+1 day) |
| 9:00 PM | 7:00 PM | 2:00 PM | 11:00 AM | 8:00 PM | 12:30 AM (+1 day) | 4:00 AM (+1 day) | 5:00 AM (+1 day) |
On UTC+2 all year
| Main city | Zone | Countries | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johannesburg | Africa/Johannesburg | South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
| Lubumbashi | Africa/Maputo | Mozambique, Burundi, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
| Khartoum | Africa/Khartoum | Sudan | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
| Tripoli | Africa/Tripoli | Libya | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
| Kaliningrad | Europe/Kaliningrad | Russia | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
| Juba | Africa/Juba | South Sudan | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
| Windhoek | Africa/Windhoek | Namibia | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
On UTC+2 in winter only
| Main city | Zone | Countries | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cairo | Africa/Cairo | Egypt | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
| Kyiv | Europe/Kyiv | Ukraine | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
| Beirut | Asia/Beirut | Lebanon | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
| Bucharest | Europe/Bucharest | Romania | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
| Sofia | Europe/Sofia | Bulgaria | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
| Jerusalem | Asia/Jerusalem | Israel | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
| Riga | Europe/Riga | Latvia | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
| Athens | Europe/Athens | Greece | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
| Helsinki | Europe/Helsinki | Finland, Aland Islands | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
| Chisinau | Europe/Chisinau | Moldova | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
| Vilnius | Europe/Vilnius | Lithuania | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
| East Jerusalem | Asia/Hebron | Palestinian Territory | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
| Gaza | Asia/Gaza | Palestinian Territory | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
| Tallinn | Europe/Tallinn | Estonia | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
| Nicosia | Asia/Nicosia | Cyprus | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
| Famagusta | Asia/Famagusta | Cyprus | 3:40 PM UTC+2 |
On UTC+2 in summer only
| Main city | Zone | Countries | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin | Europe/Berlin | Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Svalbard and Jan Mayen | 2:40 PM UTC+1 |
| Madrid | Europe/Madrid | Spain | 2:40 PM UTC+1 |
| Rome | Europe/Rome | Italy, San Marino, Vatican | 2:40 PM UTC+1 |
| Paris | Europe/Paris | France, Monaco | 2:40 PM UTC+1 |
| Budapest | Europe/Budapest | Hungary | 2:40 PM UTC+1 |
| Warsaw | Europe/Warsaw | Poland | 2:40 PM UTC+1 |
| Vienna | Europe/Vienna | Austria | 2:40 PM UTC+1 |
| Belgrade | Europe/Belgrade | Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Slovenia | 2:40 PM UTC+1 |
| Prague | Europe/Prague | Czechia, Slovakia | 2:40 PM UTC+1 |
| Brussels | Europe/Brussels | Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands | 2:40 PM UTC+1 |
| Tirana | Europe/Tirane | Albania | 2:40 PM UTC+1 |
| Zürich | Europe/Zurich | Switzerland, Germany, Liechtenstein | 2:40 PM UTC+1 |
| Melilla | Africa/Ceuta | Spain | 2:40 PM UTC+1 |
| San Pawl il-Baħar | Europe/Malta | Malta | 2:40 PM UTC+1 |
| Gibraltar | Europe/Gibraltar | Gibraltar | 2:40 PM UTC+1 |
| Andorra la Vella | Europe/Andorra | Andorra | 2:40 PM UTC+1 |
| Troll | Antarctica/Troll | Antarctica | 1:40 PM UTC+0 |