Central European Time facts for kids

Time zones of Europe in relation to UTC:

blue	Western European Time (UTC+0) Western European Summer Time (UTC+1)
light blue	Western European Time (UTC+0)
red	Central European Time (UTC+1) Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
yellow	Eastern European Time (UTC+2) Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3)
orange	Kaliningrad Time (UTC+3)
green	Further-eastern European Time (UTC+3), a.k.a. Moscow Time

Light colours indicate countries that do not observe summer 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.

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.

Images for kids

The monument 'The 15th Meridian' in Stargard, Poland
European winter
European summer
Map of Petsamo area in northern Finland/Soviet Union/Russia. The green area is the Finnish part of the Rybachi peninsula (Kalastajasaarento) which was ceded to the Soviet Union after the Winter War. The Red area is the Jäniskoski-Niskakoski area ceded to the USSR in 1947.