# Eastern European Time > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Eastern_European_Time > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Eastern_European_Time.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_European_Time > Source revision: 1345049932 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Time zone in Eastern Europe (GMT +2)}} {{About|the time zone with daylight change in Europe|the static time zone|UTC+02:00}} {{Infobox time zone | caption = {{legend|#d7d65c|Eastern European Time}} | dst initials = EEST | dst offset = +03:00 | image = Time zones of the Greater Europe.svg | initials = EET | offset = +02:00 | title = Eastern European Time | dst use = parts }} {{Time zones of Europe}} {{Time zones of Africa}} {{Time zones of the Middle East}} '''Eastern European Time''' ('''EET''') is one of the names of the [UTC+02:00](/source/UTC%2B02%3A00) [time zone](/source/time_zone), 2 hours ahead of [Coordinated Universal Time](/source/Coordinated_Universal_Time). The zone uses [daylight saving time](/source/daylight_saving_time), so that it uses [UTC+03:00](/source/UTC%2B03%3A00) during the summer. A number of African countries use [UTC+02:00](/source/UTC%2B02%3A00) all year long, where it is called [Central Africa Time](/source/Central_Africa_Time) (CAT),{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/cat|title=CAT – Central Africa Time (Time Zone Abbreviation)|website=www.timeanddate.com|language=en|access-date=2019-04-10}} although [Egypt](/source/Egypt) and [Libya](/source/Libya) also use the term ''Eastern European Time''.{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/eet|title=EET – Eastern European Time (Time Zone Abbreviation)|website=www.timeanddate.com|language=en|access-date=2019-04-10}} The most populous city in the Eastern European Time zone is [Cairo](/source/Cairo), with the most populous EET city in Europe being [Kyiv](/source/Kyiv). == Usage == The following countries, parts of countries, and territories use '''Eastern European Time''' all year round: * [Kaliningrad Oblast](/source/Kaliningrad_Oblast) ([Russia](/source/Russia)), since 26 October 2014; also used EET in the years 1945 and 1991–2011. See also [Kaliningrad Time](/source/Kaliningrad_Time). * [Libya](/source/Libya), since 27 October 2013; switched from [Central European Time](/source/Central_European_Time), which was used in 2012. Used year-round EET from 1980 to 1981, 1990–1996 and 1998–2012. The following countries, parts of countries, and territories use '''Eastern European Time''' during the winter only: * [Bulgaria](/source/Bulgaria), since 1894, except between 1942 and 1945 * [Cyprus](/source/Cyprus) * [Egypt](/source/Egypt), in the years 1988–2010, 2014–2015 and since 2023 (see also [Egypt Standard Time](/source/Egypt_Standard_Time)) * [Estonia](/source/Estonia), in the years 1921–40 and since 1990 * [Finland](/source/Finland), since 1921 * [Greece](/source/Greece), since 1916 * [Israel](/source/Israel), since 1948 (see also [Israel Standard Time](/source/Israel_Standard_Time)) * [Latvia](/source/Latvia), in the years 1926–40 and since 1990 * [Lebanon](/source/Lebanon) * [Lithuania](/source/Lithuania), in 1920–40 and since 1990 with a break 1998–1999 * [Moldova](/source/Moldova), in the years 1918–40, 1941–44 and since 1991 ** Including [Transnistria](/source/Transnistria) * [Palestine](/source/Palestine) (see also [Palestine Standard Time](/source/Time_in_the_State_of_Palestine)) * [Romania](/source/Romania) * [Ukraine](/source/Ukraine), in the years 1922–30 and since 1990{{Cite web|url=http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/115146/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111018151743/http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/115146/|url-status=dead|title=Kyiv Post. 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Trust - Ukraine - Ukraine to return to standard time on Oct. 30 (updated)|archivedate=October 18, 2011|website=www.kyivpost.com}} The following countries, parts of countries, and territories used '''Eastern European Time''' in the past: * [Moscow](/source/Moscow_Time) used EET in the years 1922–30 and 1991–92. * [Belarus](/source/Belarus), in the years 1922–30 and 1990–2011{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/belarus-eternal-dst.html|title=Eternal Daylight Saving Time (DST) in Belarus|website=www.timeanddate.com}} * [Jordan](/source/Jordan) used EET until permanently switching to DST in 2022.{{cite web |title=Syria and Jordan to Remain on Permanent DST |url=https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/syria-jordan-abolish-dst-2022.html |website=timeanddate |access-date=14 March 2024 |date=5 October 2022}} * In [Poland](/source/Second_Polish_Republic), this time was used in the years 1919–22. * [Crimea](/source/Crimea) used EET as part of Ukraine between 1991–1994 and 1996–2014 and started using [Moscow Time](/source/Moscow_Time) because of the [annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation](/source/annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation) in 2014. * [Syria](/source/Syria) used EET until permanently switching to DST in 2022. * [Turkey](/source/Turkey), used EET in the years 1910–1978 and re-used it again in the years 1985–2016.{{Cite web |title=Time Zone & Clock Changes in Istanbul, Turkey |work=timeanddate.com |access-date=6 May 2020 |url= https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/turkey/istanbul}} Sometimes, because it is used on [Microsoft Windows](/source/Microsoft_Windows),{{cite web|url=https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749073%28v=ws.10%29.aspx|title=TimeZone|publisher=Microsoft}} '''FLE Standard Time''' (for Finland, Lithuania, Estonia,{{cite web|url=http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/FLE|title=FLE|work=TheFreeDictionary.com}} or sometimes Finland, Latvia, Estonia{{cite web|url=http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/Finland+Latvia+Estonia+Time|title=Finland Latvia Estonia Time|work=TheFreeDictionary.com}}) or '''GTB Standard Time''' (for Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria) is used to refer to Eastern European Time. ==Anomalies== Since political, in addition to purely geographical, criteria are used in the drawing of time zones, it follows that time zones do not precisely adhere to meridian lines. The EET ([UTC+02:00](/source/UTC%2B02%3A00)) time zone, were it drawn by purely geographical terms, would consist of exactly the area between meridians 22°30' E and 37°30' E. As a result, there are European locales that despite lying in an area with a "physical" [UTC+02:00](/source/UTC%2B02%3A00) time, are in another time zone; likewise, there are European areas that have gone for [UTC+02:00](/source/UTC%2B02%3A00), even though their "physical" time zone is different from that. Following is a list of such anomalies: ===Areas outside [UTC+02:00](/source/UTC%2B02%3A00) longitudes using Eastern European Time ([UTC+02:00](/source/UTC%2B02%3A00)) time=== thumb|300px {| cellpadding="4" align="right" class="wikitable" style="width:300px;margin-right:0px;" ! Colour !! Legal time vs local mean time |- | style="background: #8f8fbf;" | | 1 h ± 30 m behind |- | style="background: #bfbfbf;" | | 0 h ± 30 m |- | style="background: #bf8f8f;" | | 1 h ± 30 m ahead |- | style="background: #bf6060;" | | 2 h ± 30 m ahead |- | style="background: #bf0000;" | | 3 h ± 30 m ahead |} ==== Areas west of 22°30' E ("physical" [UTC+01:00](/source/UTC%2B01%3A00)) that use [UTC+02:00](/source/UTC%2B02%3A00) ==== * The westernmost part of Greece, including the cities of [Patras](/source/Patras) and [Ioannina](/source/Ioannina), and the [Ionian Islands](/source/Ionian_Islands_(region)) * The very westernmost parts of the [Bulgaria](/source/Bulgaria)n provinces of [Vidin](/source/Vidin) and [Kyustendil](/source/Kyustendil) * The westernmost part of [Romania](/source/Romania), including most of the area of the counties of [Caraș-Severin](/source/Cara%C8%99-Severin_County), [Timiș](/source/Timi%C8%99_County) (capital [Timișoara](/source/Timi%C8%99oara)), [Arad](/source/Arad_County), and [Bihor](/source/Bihor_County), as well as the westernmost tips of the counties of [Mehedinți](/source/Mehedin%C8%9Bi_County) and [Satu Mare](/source/Satu_Mare_County) * The extreme westernmost tip of [Ukraine](/source/Ukraine), near the border with Hungary and [Slovakia](/source/Slovakia), at the Ukrainian [Transcarpathian Oblast](/source/Transcarpathian_Oblast) ([Zakarpattia Oblast](/source/Zakarpattia_Oblast)), essentially comprising the city of [Uzhhorod](/source/Uzhhorod) and its environs * Most of the [Kaliningrad Oblast](/source/Kaliningrad_Oblast), including the cities of [Kaliningrad](/source/Kaliningrad) and [Baltiysk](/source/Baltiysk) * Western [Lithuania](/source/Lithuania), including the cities of [Klaipėda](/source/Klaip%C4%97da), [Tauragė](/source/Taurag%C4%97), and [Telšiai](/source/Tel%C5%A1iai) * Western [Latvia](/source/Latvia), including the cities of [Liepāja](/source/Liep%C4%81ja) and [Ventspils](/source/Ventspils) * The westernmost parts of the [Estonia](/source/Estonia)n islands of [Saaremaa](/source/Saaremaa) and [Hiiumaa](/source/Hiiumaa), including the capital of the [Saare County](/source/Saare_County), [Kuressaare](/source/Kuressaare) * The southwestern coast of [Finland](/source/Finland), including the cities of [Turku](/source/Turku), [Pori](/source/Pori), and [Vaasa](/source/Vaasa); also the [Åland](/source/%C3%85land) islands (of Finnish jurisdiction) – the [Åland](/source/%C3%85land) islands are the westernmost locale applying EET in the whole of Europe *Most of [Libya](/source/Libya) including the capital [Tripoli](/source/Tripoli%2C_Libya) *The western half of the municipality of [Enontekiö](/source/Enonteki%C3%B6) in northwestern [Finland](/source/Finland) '''Areas east of 37°30' E ("physical" [UTC+03:00](/source/UTC%2B03%3A00)) that use [UTC+02:00](/source/UTC%2B02%3A00)''' * Eastern parts of [Ukraine](/source/Ukraine), including the city of [Mariupol](/source/Mariupol) === Areas within [UTC+02:00](/source/UTC%2B02%3A00) longitudes (22°30' E – 37°30' E) using other time zones === ==== Areas that use [UTC+01:00](/source/UTC%2B01%3A00) ==== These areas have sunrises and sunsets at least half an hour earlier than places on the [UTC+01:00](/source/UTC%2B01%3A00) meridian. *The easternmost part of [North Macedonia](/source/North_Macedonia), including the city of [Strumica](/source/Strumica). *The absolutely easternmost part of [Serbia](/source/Serbia), in the [Pirot District](/source/Pirot_District), including the city of [Pirot](/source/Pirot). *The extreme easternmost tips of Hungary and [Slovakia](/source/Slovakia), bordering to the north and south respectively the Ukrainian [Transcarpathian Oblast](/source/Transcarpathian_Oblast) ([Zakarpattia Oblast](/source/Zakarpattia_Oblast)), a bit to the east of the [Vásárosnamény](/source/V%C3%A1s%C3%A1rosnam%C3%A9ny), Hungary – [Uzhhorod](/source/Uzhhorod), [Ukraine](/source/Ukraine) (both at 22°18' E) line *The easternmost part of Poland, including the cities of [Lublin](/source/Lublin) and [Białystok](/source/Bia%C5%82ystok) *The extreme northeast of Sweden, in the [Norrbotten province](/source/Norrbotten), including the cities of [Kalix](/source/Kalix) and [Haparanda](/source/Haparanda) *The northeast of Norway, lying north of Finland, roughly coinciding with the county of [Finnmark](/source/Finnmark). The easternmost town in Norway, [Vardø](/source/Vard%C3%B8_(town)), lies at 30°51' E, which is east of the central meridian of [UTC+02:00](/source/UTC%2B02%3A00), i.e. east of [Istanbul](/source/Istanbul) and [Alexandria](/source/Alexandria). The [Norwegian-Russian border](/source/Norwegian-Russian_border) and [Belarus–Poland border](/source/Belarus%E2%80%93Poland_border) are the only places where CET (UTC+1) borders Moscow time ([UTC+03:00](/source/UTC%2B03%3A00)), resulting in a one (or two in winter) hour time change when crossing that border. There is a "tri-zone" point (where [UTC+01:00](/source/UTC%2B01%3A00), [UTC+02:00](/source/UTC%2B02%3A00), and [UTC+03:00](/source/UTC%2B03%3A00) meet) at the [Norway-Finland-Russia tripoint](/source/Muotkavaara), near the town of [Rayakoski](/source/Rayakoski). ==== Areas that use [UTC+03:00](/source/UTC%2B03%3A00) ==== Most of the following countries use winter time year round, so they coincide with Eastern European Summer Time in summer. * [Belarus](/source/Belarus) is between 23°11′E and 32°47′E and is thus fully within the physical [UTC+02:00](/source/UTC%2B02%3A00) area, but it uses [UTC+03:00](/source/UTC%2B03%3A00) year around. * Practically all [European Russia](/source/European_Russia) west of Moscow (except [Kaliningrad Oblast](/source/Kaliningrad_Oblast)); this includes the chunk of land from [Murmansk](/source/Murmansk) all the way south to [Belgorod](/source/Belgorod), including the cities of [St. Petersburg](/source/St._Petersburg), [Novgorod](/source/Novgorod), and [Pskov](/source/Pskov), to name only a few. (The westernmost point of contiguous Russia, near [Lavry](/source/Lavry), [Pskov Oblast](/source/Pskov_Oblast), 27°19' E, is the westernmost point in European Russia where [UTC+03:00](/source/UTC%2B03%3A00) is applied.) This also includes the city of [Anapa](/source/Anapa), at the westernmost tip of the [Krasnodar Krai](/source/Krasnodar_Krai) near the entrance to the Sea of Azov, at 37°22' E. * Parts of western [Syria](/source/Syria), including the capital [Damascus](/source/Damascus) * Most of [Jordan](/source/Jordan), including the capital [Amman](/source/Amman) * Western half of [Turkey](/source/Turkey), including the capital [Ankara](/source/Ankara) and the most populous city [Istanbul](/source/Istanbul) === Tripoints and borders between zones === * The Norway–Russia–Finland "tri-zone" point at [Muotkavaara](/source/Muotkavaara) (see [Central European Time](/source/Central_European_Time)) is surrounded by three different times in winter, two in summer. It had three time zones year-around before 2014. * Two of the four tripoints of [Belarus](/source/Belarus) and the tripoint of the [Kaliningrad Region](/source/Kaliningrad_Oblast) are surrounded by three different times in winter. == Major metropolitan areas == '''Winter only''' *[Athens](/source/Athens), Greece *[Beirut](/source/Beirut), Lebanon *[Brașov](/source/Bra%C8%99ov), Romania *[Bucharest](/source/Bucharest), Romania *[Chișinău](/source/Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u), Moldova *[Cluj-Napoca](/source/Cluj-Napoca), Romania *[Constanța](/source/Constan%C8%9Ba), Romania *[Daugavpils](/source/Daugavpils), Latvia *[Dnipro](/source/Dnipro), Ukraine *[Gaza](/source/Gaza_City), Palestine *[Helsinki](/source/Helsinki), Finland *[Iași](/source/Ia%C8%99i), Romania *[Jerusalem](/source/Jerusalem), Israel *[Kaunas](/source/Kaunas), Lithuania *[Kharkiv](/source/Kharkiv), Ukraine *[Kyiv](/source/Kyiv), Ukraine *[Nicosia](/source/Nicosia), Cyprus *[Odesa](/source/Odesa), Ukraine *[Oradea](/source/Oradea), Romania *[Oulu](/source/Oulu), Finland *[Plovdiv](/source/Plovdiv), Bulgaria *[Ramallah](/source/Ramallah), Palestine *[Riga](/source/Riga), Latvia *[Sofia](/source/Sofia), Bulgaria *[Tallinn](/source/Tallinn), Estonia *[Tampere](/source/Tampere), Finland *[Tel Aviv](/source/Tel_Aviv), Israel *[Thessaloniki](/source/Thessaloniki), Greece *[Timișoara](/source/Timi%C8%99oara), Romania *[Turku](/source/Turku), Finland *[Varna](/source/Varna%2C_Bulgaria), Bulgaria *[Vilnius](/source/Vilnius), Lithuania '''Year round''' *[Alexandria](/source/Alexandria), Egypt *[Benghazi](/source/Benghazi), Libya *[Cairo](/source/Cairo), Egypt *[Giza](/source/Giza), Egypt *[Kaliningrad](/source/Kaliningrad), Russia *[Port Said](/source/Port_Said), Egypt *[Tripoli](/source/Tripoli%2C_Libya), Libya ==References== {{reflist}} Category:Time zones Category:Time in Europe --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Eastern European Time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_European_Time) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_European_Time?action=history)). 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