EET/EEST

Eastern European Time

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EEST is not used on this date

This converter uses EET (GMT +2), the offset Kiev uses on this date. Open the EET converter.

Use this EEST Converter page to check current local time, UTC and GMT offset, daylight saving details, related time zones, and popular time converter links.

Eastern European Summer Time

Offset: EEST is 3 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Europe

Countries using this time zone: Åland Islands, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Lebanon, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Palestine, Romania, Ukraine

Principal Cities: The largest city in the EEST time zone is Cairo in Egypt, with about 7.735 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Alexandria, Kiev, Al Jizah, Beirut.

German: OESZ - Osteuropäische Sommerzeit

EEST Time Zone Geo Map — EEST timezone map

Daylight Saving: Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) is a daylight saving/summer time zone, but some places set clocks back one hour during winter and observe Eastern European Time (EET).

End: Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) ended on Sunday, October 26, 2025 at 4:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour back to Sunday, October 26, 2025, 3:00 am local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually on the last Sunday of October

Start: Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) starts on Sunday, March 29, 2026 at 3:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour forward to Sunday, March 29, 2026, 4:00 am. Daylight saving starts annually on the last Sunday of March

EEST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data

+03 - basic short
+0300 - basic
+03:00 - extended

Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers

+0300 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (03) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of three hours to the east of the zero meridian.

Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others

Charlie - Military abbreviation for EEST
C - short form of 'Charlie'

IANA/Olson: Reflects EEST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems

Africa/Cairo
Asia/Beirut
Asia/Famagusta
Asia/Gaza
Asia/Hebron
Asia/Nicosia
EET
Egypt
Europe/Athens
Europe/Bucharest
Europe/Chisinau
Europe/Helsinki
Europe/Kiev
Europe/Kyiv
Europe/Mariehamn
Europe/Nicosia
Europe/Riga
Europe/Sofia
Europe/Tallinn
Europe/Tiraspol
Europe/Uzhgorod
Europe/Vilnius
Europe/Zaporozhye

Time zones with the GMT +3 offset:

EEST - Eastern European Summer Time
MSK - Moscow Standard Time
AST - Arabia Standard Time
C - Charlie Time Zone
EAT - Eastern Africa Time
FET - Further Eastern European Time
IDT - Israel Daylight Time
TRT - Turkey Time