CET Africa to IST Israel Converter
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1:00 pm13:00 CET (UTC+1), Nov 4, 2026 = 2:00 pm14:00 IST (UTC+2), Nov 4, 2026
CET is 1 hour behind IST.
CET and IST examples
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CET is 1 hour behind IST.
How the time difference changes
For most of the year, CET Africa is 2 hours behind IDT Israel. From Oct 25, 2026 to Mar 26, 2027, and from Oct 31, 2027 to Mar 24, 2028, CET Africa is 1 hour behind IST Israel.
For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in CET Africa correspond to 11:00 am to 8:00 pm in IDT Israel. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in CET Africa correspond to 10:00 am to 7:00 pm in IST Israel.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in CET Africa correspond to 11:00 to 20:00 in IDT Israel. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in CET Africa correspond to 10:00 to 19:00 in IST Israel.
Compare CET time with IST time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Central European Time is 1 hour behind Israel Standard Time.
1:00 pm13:00 in CET is 2:00 pm14:00 in IST
CET to IST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-5pm09:00-17:00 in CET which corresponds to 10am-6pm10:00-18:00 in IST
1:00 pm13:00 Central European Time (CET). Offset UTC +1:00 hour
2:00 pm14:00 Israel Standard Time (IST). Offset UTC +2:00 hours
1:00 pm13:00 CET / 2:00 pm14:00 IST
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Central European Time
Offset: CET is 1 hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Countries using this time zone: Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Vatican City
Principal Cities: The largest city in the CET time zone is Berlin in Germany, with about 3.426 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Madrid, Algiers, Rome, Paris.
Daylight Saving: Some places on Central European Time (CET) keep the same time all year, while others use CET for only part of the year and change their clocks for daylight saving time; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.
Today all shaded areas are on CET.
CET representations, usage and related time zones
- +01 - basic short
- +0100 - basic
- +01:00 - extended
- +0100 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (01) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of one hour to the east of the zero meridian.
- Alpha - Military abbreviation for CET
- A - short form of 'Alpha'
- Africa/Algiers
- Africa/Ceuta
- Africa/Tunis
- Arctic/Longyearbyen
- Atlantic/Jan_Mayen
- CET
- Europe/Amsterdam
- Europe/Andorra
- Europe/Belgrade
- Europe/Berlin
- Europe/Bratislava
- Europe/Brussels
- Europe/Budapest
- Europe/Busingen
- Europe/Copenhagen
- Europe/Gibraltar
- Europe/Ljubljana
- Europe/Luxembourg
- Europe/Madrid
- Europe/Malta
- Europe/Monaco
- Europe/Oslo
- Europe/Paris
- Europe/Podgorica
- Europe/Prague
- Europe/Rome
- Europe/San_Marino
- Europe/Sarajevo
- Europe/Skopje
- Europe/Stockholm
- Europe/Tirane
- Europe/Vaduz
- Europe/Vatican
- Europe/Vienna
- Europe/Warsaw
- Europe/Zagreb
- Europe/Zurich
- MET
- Poland
- BST - British Summer Time
- CET - Central European Time
- IST - Irish Standard Time
- WEST - Western European Summer Time
- A - Alpha Time Zone
- CET - Central European Time
- MEZ - Mitteleuropäische Zeit
- WAT - West Africa Time
- WST - Western Sahara Summer Time
- BMT - Biel Mean Time
Israel Standard Time
Offset: IST is 2 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Countries using this time zone: Israel
Principal Cities: The largest city in the IST time zone is Jerusalem in Israel, with about 971,800 people. Other major cities in this time zone include Tel Aviv, Haifa, Rishon LeTsiyyon, Petaẖ Tiqva.
Today all shaded areas are on IST.
Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone. During summer, some places set clocks forward one hour for daylight saving time and observe Israel Daylight Time (IDT).
Start: Israel Standard Time (IST) started on Sunday, October 25, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks were set one hour back to Sunday, October 25, 2026, 1:00 am01:00. Standard time starts annually on the last Sunday of October.
End: Israel Standard Time (IST) ends on Friday, March 26, 2027 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks are set one hour forward to Friday, March 26, 2027, 3:00 am03:00 local daylight time instead.
See Israel daylight saving time and upcoming clock changes worldwide.
IST representations, usage and related time zones
- +02 - basic short
- +0200 - basic
- +02:00 - extended
- +0200 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (02) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of two hours to the east of the zero meridian.
- Bravo - Military abbreviation for IST
- B - short form of 'Bravo'
- Asia/Jerusalem
- Asia/Tel_Aviv
- Israel
- India Standard Time - UTC +5:30
- Irish Standard Time - UTC +1
- Israel Standard Time - UTC +2
- CEST - Central European Summer Time
- EET - Eastern European Time
- MESZ - Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
- B - Bravo Time Zone
- CAT - Central Africa Time
- IST - Israel Standard Time
- SAST - South Africa Standard Time
- WAST - West Africa Summer Time