Check the world clock for Europe time now — live local time in London, Paris, Berlin, Rome and 15 more cities, plus an instant timezone converter and meeting planner. Free, accurate, no sign-up, runs in your browser.
Local time right now across Europe and key world cities. Offsets update automatically for daylight saving.
Set a meeting time in one city and see the exact instant in up to 4 other cities.
Most of Europe runs on Central European Time (CET, UTC+1) in winter and Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+2) in summer — this covers France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Sweden, Czechia and more. The United Kingdom, Ireland and Portugal sit one hour behind on Western European Time (WET, UTC+0) in winter and Western European Summer Time (WEST, UTC+1) in summer. Greece, Romania, Finland, Bulgaria and the Baltic states run one hour ahead on Eastern European Time (EET, UTC+2) in winter and Eastern European Summer Time (EEST, UTC+3) in summer. So the practical rule is simple: London → Paris is always +1 hour, and London → Athens is always +2 hours, all year round, because every European country changes its clocks on the same weekends.
If you are scheduling meetings, flights or calls in October 2026, mark one date: Sunday 25 October 2026, when the EU switches back to winter time at 03:00 and Central Europe moves from CEST (UTC+2) to CET (UTC+1). A 14:00 Berlin meeting booked for 26 October happens one hour later in UTC terms than the same meeting on 24 October — and anyone outside Europe will feel the shift. This is exactly the kind of error the timezone converter above prevents: enter the real date and it applies the correct offset for that specific day. Clocks go forward again on the last Sunday of March 2027 (28 March 2027). The long-debated EU proposal to abolish the clock change has still not been adopted, so the twice-yearly switch continues for now.
The live clocks above show the current local time in every major European capital, updated every second and fully daylight-saving aware. Europe uses three main zones: Western European Time (UK, Ireland, Portugal: UTC+0 in winter, UTC+1 in summer), Central European Time (most of Europe including France, Germany, Italy and Spain: UTC+1 in winter, UTC+2 in summer) and Eastern European Time (Greece, Romania, Finland and others: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer).
Subtract one hour. In summer, Central European Summer Time is UTC+2 while the UK is on British Summer Time (UTC+1), so 15:00 CEST becomes 14:00 in London. In winter, Central European Time is UTC+1 while the UK is on Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0), so Paris and Berlin are still one hour ahead of London — 15:00 CET is 14:00 GMT. In other words, continental Western Europe is always exactly one hour ahead of the UK, year-round, because both regions change their clocks together.
Yes. All EU member states still observe daylight saving time in 2026 under the EU Summer Time Directive. Clocks go back one hour on the last Sunday of October — 25 October 2026 at 03:00 — switching Central Europe from CEST (UTC+2) to CET (UTC+1). Clocks go forward again on the last Sunday of March 2027 (28 March 2027). The long-debated EU proposal to abolish the clock change has not been adopted, so the switch continues for now.
Paris is 1 hour ahead of London in both winter and summer. In winter Paris is on CET (UTC+1) while London is on GMT (UTC+0); in summer Paris is on CEST (UTC+2) while London is on BST (UTC+1). The one-hour difference stays constant because both countries shift their clocks on the same weekends.