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Vatican City's clocks go back 1 hour on Sun, Oct 25 · CEST → CET

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3:00 pm15:00 FET (UTC+3), Oct 24, 2026 = 2:00 pm14:00 CEST (UTC+2), Oct 24, 2026

FET is 1 hour ahead of Vatican City.

How the time difference changes

For most of the year, FET is 1 hour ahead of Vatican City. From Oct 25, 2026 to Mar 28, 2027, FET is 2 hours ahead of Vatican City.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in FET correspond to 8:00 am to 5:00 pm in Vatican City. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in FET correspond to 7:00 am to 4:00 pm in Vatican City.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in FET correspond to 08:00 to 17:00 in Vatican City. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in FET correspond to 07:00 to 16:00 in Vatican City.

Compare FET time with Vatican City 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 CEST (Central European Summer Time).
3:00 pm15:00 in FET is 2:00 pm14:00 in Vatican City, Vatican

FET to Vatican City 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 Vatican City

3:00 pm15:00 Further Eastern European Time (FET). Offset UTC +3:00 hours
2:00 pm14:00 CEST (Central European Summer Time) (Vatican City, Vatican). Offset UTC +2:00 hours

3:00 pm15:00 FET / 2:00 pm14:00 Vatican City, Vatican

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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

Vatican City Time Zone and Facts

Time Zone

Abbreviation / Offset
CEST – Central European Summer Time, UTC+2 (now, daylight saving time)
CET – Central European Time, UTC+1 (standard time)
Daylight Saving Time Ends
123456789101112Sunday, October 25, 2026 at 3:00 amSunday, October 25, 2026 at 03:00: clocks go back 1 hour to 2:00 am02:00 (CET). DST ends on the last Sunday of October each year. Also called Fall Back or Winter Time.
Daylight Saving Time Starts
123456789101112Sunday, March 28, 2027 at 2:00 amSunday, March 28, 2027 at 02:00: clocks go forward 1 hour to 3:00 am03:00 (CEST). DST starts on the last Sunday of March each year. Also called Spring Forward or Summer Time.

Vatican City Facts

Country
Vatican
Alternative Names
Citta del Vaticano, Città del Vaticano, Ciudad del Vaticano, Etat de la Cite du Vatican, Staat Vatikanstadt, Staat der Vatikanstadt, Vatican, Vatican City, Vatican City State, Vaticano, Vatikan, Vatikanas, Vatikanstaden, Vatikanstadt, batikan, batikan si, État de la Cité du Vatican, Ватикан, 바티칸, 바티칸 시
Population
829
Currency
Euro (EUR)
Geographic Coordinates
41° 54' N Latitude / 12° 27' E Longitude
International Dialing Code
+39