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This converter keeps MESZ at UTC+2. Berlin uses CET (UTC+1) on this date. Open the CET converter, or choose Berlin, Madrid, or Algiers for city-specific time.

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3:00 pm15:00 FET (UTC+3), Oct 29, 2026 = 2:00 pm14:00 MESZ (UTC+2), Oct 29, 2026

FET is 1 hour ahead of MESZ.

FET and MESZ examples

These examples always use FET (UTC+3) and MESZ (UTC+2). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.

FET is 1 hour ahead of MESZ.

How the time difference changes

FET is 1 hour ahead of MESZ year-round.

Working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in FET correspond to 8:00 am to 5:00 pm in MESZ.Working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in FET correspond to 08:00 to 17:00 in MESZ.

Compare FET time with MESZ time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.

Time Difference

Further Eastern European Time is 1 hour ahead of Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit.
3:00 pm15:00 in FET is 2:00 pm14:00 in MESZ

FET to MESZ call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 10am-6pm10:00-18:00 in FET which corresponds to 9am-5pm09:00-17:00 in MESZ

3:00 pm15:00 Further Eastern European Time (FET). Offset UTC +3:00 hours
2:00 pm14:00 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit (MESZ). Offset UTC +2:00 hours

3:00 pm15:00 FET / 2:00 pm14:00 MESZ

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Further Eastern European Time

Offset: FET is 3 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Belarus

Principal Cities: The largest city in the FET time zone is Minsk in Belarus, with about 1.742 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Homyel', Hrodna, Vitebsk, Mahilyow.

Daylight Saving: Clocks in Further Eastern European Time (FET) do not change for daylight saving time, so FET stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.

FET 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 FET
  • C - short form of 'Charlie'
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

Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit

Offset: MESZ is 2 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Albania, 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, Vatican City

Principal Cities: The largest city in the MESZ time zone is Berlin in Germany, with about 3.426 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Madrid, Rome, Paris, Hamburg.

Map of the areas on Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit (MESZ)
MESZ part of the year

Today the shaded areas are on UTC+1 (CET).

Daylight Saving: Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit (MESZ) is a daylight saving/summer time zone, but some places set clocks back one hour during winter and observe Central European Time (CET).

123456789101112End: Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit (MESZ) ended on Sunday, October 25, 2026 at 3:00 am03:00 local time and clocks were set one hour back to Sunday, October 25, 2026, 2:00 am02:00 local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually on the last Sunday of October.

123456789101112Start: Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit (MESZ) starts on Sunday, March 28, 2027 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks are set one hour forward to Sunday, March 28, 2027, 3:00 am03:00. Daylight saving starts annually on the last Sunday of March.

See upcoming clock changes worldwide.

MESZ representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +02 - basic short
  • +0200 - basic
  • +02:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +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.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Bravo - Military abbreviation for MESZ
  • B - short form of 'Bravo'
Time zones with the GMT +2 offset:
  • 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