UTC+02:00

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Short description: Identifier for a time offset from UTC of +2
UTC+02:00
Time zone
Timezones2008 UTC+2 gray.png
World map with the time zone highlighted
UTC offset
UTCUTC+02:00
Current time
20:29, 18 July 2024 UTC+02:00 [refresh]
Central meridian
30 degrees E
Date-time group
B
UTC+02:00 2010: blue (December), orange (June), yellow (year-round), light blue (sea areas)

UTC+02:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +02:00. In ISO 8601, the associated time would be written as 2020-11-08T23:41:45+02:00.[1][2] This time is used in:

As standard time (year-round)

Principal cities: Cairo, Pretoria, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Khartoum, Lubumbashi, Kigali, Gaborone, Bujumbura, Manzini, Maseru, Tripoli, Lilongwe, Maputo, Windhoek, Omdurman, Juba, Lusaka, Harare, Kaliningrad[3]

Africa

  • Egypt

Central Africa

  • Botswana[4]
  • Burundi[5]
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
    • The provinces of Bas-Uele, Haut-Katanga, Haut-Lomami, Haut-Uele, Kasaï, Kasaï Occidental, Kasaï Oriental, Katanga, Lomani, Lualaba, Maniema, Nord-Kivu, Orientale, Sankuru, Sud-Kivu, Tanganyika, Tshopo, and Ituri Interim Administration[6]
  • Eswatini[7]
  • Lesotho[8]
  • Libya[9]
  • Malawi[10]
  • Mozambique[11]
  • Namibia[12]
  • Rwanda[13]
  • South Africa (except Prince Edward Islands)[14]
  • Sudan[15]
  • South Sudan[16]
  • Zambia[17]
  • Zimbabwe[18]

Europe

Main page: Kaliningrad Time
  • Russia
    • Northwestern Federal District
      • Kaliningrad Oblast[19]

As standard time (Northern Hemisphere winter only)

Principal cities: Athens, Thessaloniki, Nicosia, North Nicosia, Helsinki, Turku, Mariehamn, Kyiv, Bucharest, Jerusalem, Tallinn, Sofia, Riga, Vilnius, Chisinau, Tiraspol, Lviv, Dnipro, Luhansk, Donetsk, Odesa, Kaunas, Klaipeda, Turku[20]

Europe

Eastern Europe

Most countries observe European Union rule to remove DST.[21]

  • Bulgaria
  • Cyprus
  • Northern Cyprus
  • Estonia
  • Finland
    • Åland
  • Greece
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Moldova
  • Romania
  • Ukraine
    • Except Crimea (occupied by Russia), part of Donetsk and Luhansk regions
  • United Kingdom
    • Akrotiri and Dhekelia

Asia

Middle East

Principal cities: Jerusalem, Beirut, Tel Aviv, Gaza, Bethlehem

  • Israel
  • Lebanon
  • Palestine

As daylight saving time (Northern Hemisphere summer only)

Europe

Main page: Central European Summer Time

Principal cities: Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Dortmund, Essen, Bremen, Hanover, Mainz, Rome, Milan, Naples, Venice, Florence, Palermo, Turin, Genoa, Vatican City, San Marino, Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes, Lyon, Lille, Montpellier, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Nice, Monaco, Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Málaga, Bilbao, Andorra, Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Zürich, Geneva, Bern, Brussels, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Luxembourg, Valletta, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Warsaw, Prague, Zagreb, Budapest, Tirana, Sarajevo, Pristina, Podgorica, Skopje, Belgrade, Bratislava, Ljubljana[22]

  • Albania
  • Andorra
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Croatia
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • France
  • Germany
  • Hungary
  • Italy
  • Kosovo
  • Liechtenstein
  • Luxembourg
  • Malta
  • Monaco
  • Montenegro
  • Netherlands
  • North Macedonia
  • Norway (including Svalbard and Jan Mayen)
  • Poland
  • San Marino
  • Serbia
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Spain[23] (Excluding Canary Islands)
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Gibraltar (United Kingdom )
  • Vatican City

Discrepancies between official UTC+02:00 and geographical UTC+02:00

Areas in UTC+02:00 longitudes using other time zones

Using 00:

  • Tanzania
  • Uganda
  • Kenya
    • The western part, including nation's capital Nairobi
  • Ethiopia
    • The western part, including Nekemte and Jimma
  • Saudi Arabia
    • The northwesternmost part, including Tabuk
  • Turkey
    • Most part in the country, including Istanbul
  • Ukraine
    • Part of Donetsk and Luhansk regions
  • Belarus
  • Russia
    • The western part, including Saint Petersburg, half of Moscow and Crimea

Using 00:

  • North Macedonia (standard time)
    • The easternmost part, including Novo Selo and Berovo
  • Serbia (standard time)
    • The very easternmost part, including Pirot
  • Hungary (standard time)
    • The northeasternmost part of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
  • Slovakia (standard time)
    • The easternmost part of Prešov Region
  • Poland (standard time)
    • The easternmost part, including Białystok
  • Norway (standard time)
    • The eastern part of Troms og Finnmark
    • The easternmost part of Svalbard
  • Chad
    • The westernmost part of Ennedi-Est, including Amdjarass
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
    • The easternmost part of its provinces:
      • Nord-Ubangi
      • Mongala
      • Tshuapa
      • Kasaï Province
  • Angola
    • The westernmost part of Moxico Province
  • Central African Republic
    • Haut-Mbomou
    • The western part of its prefectures:
      • Mbomou
      • Haute-Kotto
      • Vakaga

Areas outside UTC+02:00 longitudes using UTC+02:00 time

Areas between 7°30' E and 22°30' E ("physical" UTC+01:00)

From south to north:

  • South Africa
  • Botswana
    • The western part of the districts:
      • Kgalagadi
      • Ghanzi
      • Ngamiland
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
    • The very westernmost part of Lualaba Province, Kasaï-Central and Sankuru
  • Libya
    • The most part in the country, where the nation's capital Tripoli is
  • Greece (standard time)
  • Romania (standard time)
  • Russia
    • Kaliningrad Oblast
  • Lithuania (standard time)
    • The westernmost part, including Klaipėda
  • Latvia (standard time)
    • The westernmost part, including Liepāja
  • Estonia (standard time)
    • The westernmost parts of the Saare and Hiiu counties.
  • Finland (standard time)
    • The westernmost part, including Turku

References

  1. "ISO 8601 Date and time format" (in en). http://www.iso.org/cms/render/live/en/sites/isoorg/home/standards/popular-standards/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html. 
  2. Wolf, Misha; Wicksteed, Charles. "Date and Time Formats" (in en). https://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime.html. 
  3. "Africa/Khartoum: Time Zone in Sudan, Current local time" (in en). https://www.zeitverschiebung.net/en/timezone/africa--khartoum. 
  4. "Current Local Time in Gaborone, Botswana" (in en). https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/botswana/gaborone. 
  5. "Time in Bujumbura, Burundi" (in en-us). https://24timezones.com/world_directory/time_in_bujumbura.php. 
  6. "Current Local Time in Cairo, Egypt" (in en). https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/egypt/cairo. 
  7. "Current Local Time in Mbabane, eSwatini" (in en). https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/swaziland/mbabane. 
  8. "Current Local Time in Maseru, Lesotho" (in en). https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/lesotho/maseru. 
  9. "Time Zone & Clock Changes in Tripoli, Libya" (in en). https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/libya/tripoli. 
  10. "Malawi Fact File". https://www.destination-malawi.com/site/index.php/about-malawi/malawi-fact-file. 
  11. "Flag of Mozambique image and meaning Mozambique flag" (in en). https://www.countryflags.com/en/flag-of-mozambique.html?source=facebook. 
  12. "Time in Namibia: What is the current local time now in Namibia?" (in en). https://greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/africa/namibia/time-namibia/. 
  13. "Rwanda Time Zone - Rwanda Current Time". https://www.timetemperature.com/africa/rwanda_time_zone.shtml. 
  14. "South Africa Standard Time Zone - SAST" (in en). 2015-12-09. https://www.worldtimeserver.com/time-zones/sast/. 
  15. "Current Local Time in Khartoum, Sudan" (in en). https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sudan/khartoum. 
  16. "Time on Juba, South Sudan" (in en-us). https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/south-sudan/juba. 
  17. "Zambia, Africa: Current Local Time & Date, Time Zone and Difference" (in en). https://www.zeitverschiebung.net/en/country/zm. 
  18. "Time in Harare, Zimbabwe" (in en-us). https://24timezones.com/world_directory/time_in_harare.php. 
  19. "Current Local Time in Kaliningrad, Russia" (in en). https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/russia/kaliningrad. 
  20. "Europe/Kyiv: Time Zone in Ukraine, Current local time" (in en). https://www.zeitverschiebung.net/en/timezone/europe--kiev. 
  21. "EET – Eastern European Time (Time Zone Abbreviation)" (in en). https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/eet. 
  22. "CEST – Central European Summer Time (Time Zone Abbreviation)" (in en). https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/cest. 
  23. "Europe Time Zone Map". WorldTimeZone.com. http://www.worldtimezone.com/time-europe12.php. 

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