Central European Time

Central European Time is a time zone. It is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (what used to be called Greenwich Mean Time). Most countries in the central part of Europe and some countries in Africa follow it.

Time zones of Europe in relation to UTC:

Blue	Western European Time (UTC±00:00) Western European Summer Time (UTC+01:00)
Light Blue	Western European Time (UTC±00:00)
Red	Central European Time (UTC+01:00) Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00)
Ochre	Eastern European Time (UTC+02:00) Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00)
Yellow	Kaliningrad Time (UTC+02:00)
Green	Moscow Time / Turkey Time (UTC+03:00)

▉▉▉ Pale colours: Standard time observed all year
▉▉▉ Dark colours: Summer time observed

In Europe, the countries of Ireland, Great Britain, Iceland and Portugal use Western European Time. All the other countries, up to Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and North Macedonia use Central European Time.

Algeria and Tunisia in Africa use CET but do not observe daylight saving time.