Time in Palestine

The time zones in Palestine are Palestine Standard Time (PSST) (Arabic: توقيت فلسطين القياسي) (UTC+02:00) and Palestine Summer Time (PSDT) (Arabic: توقيت فلسطين الصيفي) (UTC+03:00).^[1][2] Palestine first observed Daylight Saving Time in 1940. Palestine observed DST for 63 years between 1940 and 2025. The previous time with no Daylight Saving Time was 1983.^[3] The Palestinian Government announces the dates for the start and end of summer time.^[4] In 2020, they announced the end of summer time on 19 October, only 5 days before the change.^[5]

Time in the Middle East

	UTC+02:00 UTC+03:00	Eastern European Time / Israel Standard Time / Eastern European Summer Time / Israel Summer Time
	UTC+03:00	Arabia Standard Time / Turkey Time
	UTC+03:30	Iran Standard Time
	UTC+04:00	Gulf Standard Time

▉▉▉ Standard time observed all year
▉ Daylight saving time observed

Israeli settlements

The illegal Israeli settlements on the West Bank adhere to Israel Standard Time, which switches to Israel Summer Time on a different date than Palestine switches to Palestine Summer Time. This creates a one-hour difference for a few days for different groups of people living in the same geographic area.^[6]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Palestine is given two zone identifiers in the file zone.tab: Asia/Gaza serving the Gaza Strip; and Asia/Hebron serving West Bank. These zones use EET (normal) and EEST (summer daylight) for their time zone abbreviations.^[7]