Identifier for a time offset from UTC of +2
Time in Europe:▉▉▉▉ Pale hues: Standard time observed all year
▉▉▉ Dark hues:Daylight saving time
Time in Africa:
a The islands ofCape Verde and theCanary Islands lie west of the African mainland.
b DuringRamadan, Morocco switches toGreenwich Mean Time (UTC) and returns toUTC+1 after it ends.
dMauritius and theSeychelles lie to the east and northeast ofMadagascar, respectively.
Time in the Middle East
▉▉▉Standard time observed all year
▉Daylight saving time observedUTC+02:00 is an identifier for atime offset from UTC of +02:00. InISO 8601, the associated time would be written as 2020-11-08T23:41:45+02:00.[1][2]
As standard time (year-round)
[edit]Principal cities:Pretoria,Cape Town,Johannesburg,Durban,Port Elizabeth,Khartoum,Lubumbashi,Kigali,Gaborone,Bujumbura,Manzini,Maseru,Tripoli,Lilongwe,Maputo,Windhoek,Omdurman,Juba,Lusaka,Harare,Kaliningrad[3]
- Botswana[4]
- Burundi[5]
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- The provinces ofBas-Uélé,Haut-Katanga,Haut-Lomami,Haut-Uélé,Kasaï,Kasaï Occidental,Kasaï Oriental,Katanga,Lomami,Lualaba,Maniema,Nord-Kivu,Orientale,Sankuru,Sud-Kivu,Tanganyika,Tshopo, andIturi Interim Administration[6]
- Eswatini[7]
- Lesotho[8]
- Libya[9]
- Malawi[10]
- Mozambique[11]
- Namibia[12]
- Rwanda[13]
- South Africa (exceptPrince Edward Islands)[14]
- South Sudan[15]
- Sudan[16]
- Zambia[17]
- Zimbabwe[18]
As standard time (Northern Hemisphere winter only)
[edit]Principal cities:Athens,Thessaloniki,Nicosia,North Nicosia,Helsinki,Turku,Mariehamn,Kyiv,Bucharest,Jerusalem,Tallinn,Sofia,Riga,Vilnius,Chișinău,Tiraspol,Lviv,Dnipro,Luhansk,Donetsk,Odesa,Kaunas,Klaipėda[20]
Most countries observeEuropean Union rule to remove DST.[21]
- Bulgaria
- Cyprus
- Estonia
- Finland
- Greece
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Moldova
- Romania
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
Principal cities:Jerusalem,Beirut,Tel Aviv,Gaza,Bethlehem
Principal cities:Cairo
As daylight saving time (Northern Hemisphere summer only)
[edit]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,Zurich,Geneva,Bern,Brussels,Antwerp,Amsterdam,Rotterdam,Luxembourg,Valletta,Copenhagen,Stockholm,Oslo,Warsaw,Prague,Zagreb,Budapest,Tirana,Sarajevo,Pristina,Podgorica,Skopje,Belgrade,Bratislava,Ljubljana[23]
- Albania
- Andorra
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- France
- Germany
- Gibraltar (British Overseas Territory)
- Hungary
- Italy
- Kosovo
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- North Macedonia
- Norway (includingSvalbard and Jan Mayen)
- Poland
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain[24] (ExcludingCanary Islands)
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Vatican City
Discrepancies between official UTC+02:00 and geographical UTC+02:00
[edit]Areas in UTC+02:00 longitudes using other time zones
[edit]UsingUTC+03:00:
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Kenya
- The western part, including nation's capitalNairobi
- Ethiopia
- Saudi Arabia
- The northwesternmost part, includingTabuk
- Turkey
- Most part in the country, includingIstanbul
- Ukraine
- Part of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Crimea
- Belarus
- Russia
UsingUTC+01:00:
- North Macedonia (standard time)
- Serbia (standard time)
- The very easternmost part, includingPirot
- Hungary (standard time)
- Slovakia (standard time)
- Poland (standard time)
- Norway (standard time)
- Chad
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- The easternmost part of its provinces:
- Angola
- Central African Republic
Areas outside UTC+02:00 longitudes using UTC+02:00 time
[edit]Areas between 7°30' E and 22°30' E ("physical" UTC+01:00)
[edit]From south to north:
- South Africa
- Botswana
- The western part of the districts:
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Libya
- The most part in the country, where the nation's capitalTripoli is
- Greece (standard time)
- Romania (standard time)
- Russia
- Lithuania (standard time)
- Latvia (standard time)
- The westernmost part, includingLiepāja
- Estonia (standard time)
- The westernmost parts of theSaare andHiiu counties.
- Finland (standard time)
- The westernmost part, includingTurku
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