GMT to MESZ Converter
The United Kingdom is on summer time: BST (UTC+1) until Sun, Oct 25.
Iceland and Ghana stay on GMT (UTC+0).
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12:00 pm12:00 GMT (UTC+0), Oct 16, 2026 = 2:00 pm14:00 MESZ (UTC+2), Oct 16, 2026
GMT is 2 hours behind MESZ.
GMT and MESZ examples
These examples always use GMT (UTC+0) 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.
GMT is 2 hours behind MESZ.
How the time difference changes
GMT is 2 hours behind MESZ year-round.
Working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in GMT correspond to 11:00 am to 8:00 pm in MESZ.Working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in GMT correspond to 11:00 to 20:00 in MESZ.
Compare GMT time with MESZ time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Greenwich Mean Time is 2 hours behind Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit.
12:00 pm12:00 in GMT is 2:00 pm14:00 in MESZ
GMT to MESZ call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-4pm09:00-16:00 in GMT which corresponds to 11am-6pm11:00-18:00 in MESZ
12:00 pm12:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
2:00 pm14:00 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit (MESZ). Offset UTC +2:00 hours
12:00 pm12:00 GMT / 2:00 pm14:00 MESZ
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Greenwich Mean Time
Offset: GMT is the same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Countries using this time zone: Antarctica, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Greenland, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Ivory Coast, Jersey, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Saint Helena, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, United Kingdom, Western Sahara
Principal Cities: The largest city in the GMT time zone is London in the United Kingdom, with about 8.962 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Abidjan, Bamako, Casablanca, Dakar.
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) originally referred to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It is now often used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when this is viewed as a time zone, and in casual use the two are the same. In the military, GMT is known as Zulu time. Greenwich Mean Time was the same as Universal Time (UT), a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields, until the introduction of UTC in 1972.
Today the lighter areas are on UTC+1 (British Summer Time, Irish Standard Time).
GMT representations, usage and related time zones
- Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
- +00 - basic short
- +0000 - basic
- +00:00 - extended
- +0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates the zero UTC/GMT offset.
- Zulu - Military abbreviation for GMT
- Z - short form of 'Zulu'
- Africa/Abidjan
- Africa/Accra
- Africa/Bamako
- Africa/Banjul
- Africa/Bissau
- Africa/Conakry
- Africa/Dakar
- Africa/Freetown
- Africa/Lome
- Africa/Monrovia
- Africa/Nouakchott
- Africa/Ouagadougou
- Africa/Sao_Tome
- Africa/Timbuktu
- America/Danmarkshavn
- Atlantic/Reykjavik
- Atlantic/St_Helena
- Eire
- Etc/GMT
- Etc/GMT+0
- Etc/GMT-0
- Etc/GMT0
- Etc/Greenwich
- Europe/Belfast
- Europe/Dublin
- Europe/Guernsey
- Europe/Isle_of_Man
- Europe/Jersey
- Europe/London
- GB
- GB-Eire
- GMT
- GMT+0
- GMT-0
- GMT0
- Greenwich
- Iceland
- EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
- GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
- WET - Western European Time
- AZOST - Azores Summer Time
- UTC - Coordinated Universal Time
- WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
- Z - Zulu Time Zone
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.
Today all shaded areas are on MESZ.
Daylight Saving: Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit (MESZ) is a daylight saving/summer time zone. During winter, some places set clocks back one hour and observe Central European Time (CET).
Start: Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit (MESZ) started on Sunday, March 29, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 29, 2026, 3:00 am03:00. Daylight saving starts annually on the last Sunday of March.
End: Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit (MESZ) ends on Sunday, October 25, 2026 at 3:00 am03:00 local time and clocks are 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.
MESZ 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 MESZ
- B - short form of 'Bravo'
- 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