EEST

Eastern European Summer Time

GMT +3

Sat, Aug 26

12am

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Use this EEST Time 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 9.607 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. During winter, some places set clocks back one hour and observe Eastern European Time (EET).

Start: Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) started on Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 3:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 26, 2023, 4:00 am. Daylight saving starts annually on the last Sunday of March

End: Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) ends on Sunday, October 29, 2023 at 4:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, October 29, 2023, 3:00 am local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually on the last Sunday of October

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