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CET to UTC converter

UTC is 2 hours behind CET right now. Live clocks on both sides, a direct time input, the full 24-hour table with a permalink per hour, and the real daylight-saving state — computed from the IANA tz database on every request, never from a stored offset.

Central European Time · Europe/Paris
02:26:12
Thursday, 13 August 2026 · CEST · UTC+02:00 · DST
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Coordinated Universal Time · UTC
00:26:12
Thursday, 13 August 2026 · UTC · UTC+00:00

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Coordinated Universal Time

UTC is currently on UTC (UTC+00:00).

no clock change scheduled — this zone is fixed at UTC+00:00

UTC is the reference clock every other offset is quoted against. It has no daylight saving and never shifts.

Central European Time

Europe/Paris is on CEST (UTC+02:00).

next change: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 02:00 local → CET (73 days)

CET is UTC+1, the winter clock for most of mainland western Europe. From late March to late October the same countries run CEST (UTC+2).

Best time to call green = 09:00–18:00 on both sides

7 overlapping working hours. The longest run is 11:00–18:00 CET, which is 09:00–16:00 UTC.

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CET to UTC, hour by hour 13 August 2026 · every row is a permalink

CET UTC 12-hour Day Permalink
00:00 22:00 UTC 10:00 PM previous day 00:00 →
01:00 23:00 UTC 11:00 PM previous day 01:00 →
02:00 00:00 UTC 12:00 AM same day 02:00 →
03:00 01:00 UTC 1:00 AM same day 03:00 →
04:00 02:00 UTC 2:00 AM same day 04:00 →
05:00 03:00 UTC 3:00 AM same day 05:00 →
06:00 04:00 UTC 4:00 AM same day 06:00 →
07:00 05:00 UTC 5:00 AM same day 07:00 →
08:00 06:00 UTC 6:00 AM same day 08:00 →
09:00 07:00 UTC 7:00 AM same day 09:00 →
10:00 08:00 UTC 8:00 AM same day 10:00 →
11:00 09:00 UTC 9:00 AM same day 11:00 →
12:00 10:00 UTC 10:00 AM same day 12:00 →
13:00 11:00 UTC 11:00 AM same day 13:00 →
14:00 12:00 UTC 12:00 PM same day 14:00 →
15:00 13:00 UTC 1:00 PM same day 15:00 →
16:00 14:00 UTC 2:00 PM same day 16:00 →
17:00 15:00 UTC 3:00 PM same day 17:00 →
18:00 16:00 UTC 4:00 PM same day 18:00 →
19:00 17:00 UTC 5:00 PM same day 19:00 →
20:00 18:00 UTC 6:00 PM same day 20:00 →
21:00 19:00 UTC 7:00 PM same day 21:00 →
22:00 20:00 UTC 8:00 PM same day 22:00 →
23:00 21:00 UTC 9:00 PM same day 23:00 →

Every hour as its own page

00:00 CET 01:00 CET 02:00 CET 03:00 CET 04:00 CET 05:00 CET 06:00 CET 07:00 CET 08:00 CET 09:00 CET 10:00 CET 11:00 CET 12:00 CET 13:00 CET 14:00 CET 15:00 CET 16:00 CET 17:00 CET 18:00 CET 19:00 CET 20:00 CET 21:00 CET 22:00 CET 23:00 CET

CET to UTC — questions

What time is it in UTC when it is CEST now?
UTC is currently 00:26 on Thursday, 13 August 2026 (UTC, UTC+00:00), while CET is 02:26 (UTC+02:00). That is 2 hours behind the source clock right now.
How many hours behind is UTC of CET?
2 hours at this moment. The gap is not constant across the year: Central European Time and Coordinated Universal Time change clocks on different dates (or one of them not at all), so a difference you hard-code in summer can be an hour wrong in winter. The table on this page is computed from the current tzdata rules, not from a fixed offset.
Is UTC on daylight saving time right now?
No. UTC is on UTC (UTC+00:00) at the moment.
Does UTC observe daylight saving time?
No. UTC stays on UTC+00:00 all year, so the difference from CET only moves when CET itself changes.
What is the best time to schedule a call between CET and UTC?
There are 7 hours of overlap where both sides are inside a 09:00-18:00 working day. The longest block is 11:00–18:00 CET, which is 09:00–16:00 UTC. Use the calendar buttons above to drop it straight into Google Calendar, Outlook or an .ics file.
Which IANA timezone name should I use for UTC in code?
Use UTC. Abbreviations like UTC are ambiguous and not resolvable by most libraries — Python's ZoneInfo, Java's ZoneId, Go's time.LoadLocation and JavaScript's Intl all expect the IANA name. Hard-coding UTC+00:00 instead will be wrong the moment the rules change.

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