Eastern European Time

Eastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of UTC+2 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used in some European, North African, and Middle Eastern countries. Most of them also use Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3) as a summer daylight saving time.

Time in Europe:

Light Blue	Western European Time / Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)
Blue	Western European Time / Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)
	Western European Summer Time / British Summer Time / Irish Standard Time (UTC+1)
Red	Central European Time (UTC+1)
	Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
Yellow	Eastern European Time / Kaliningrad Time (UTC+2)
Ochre	Eastern European Time (UTC+2)
	Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3)
Green	Moscow Time / Turkey Time (UTC+3)
Turquoise	Armenia Time / Azerbaijan Time / Georgia Time / Samara Time (UTC+4)

▉▉▉▉ Pale colours: Standard time observed all year
▉▉▉ Dark colours: Summer time observed

Where it is used

Two countries uses Eastern European Time all the year:

• Libya
• Egypt

The following countries, parts of countries, and territories use Eastern European Time during the winter only:

• Bulgaria, since 1894
• Cyprus, (Northern Cyprus abolished daylight saving and has switched to Moscow Time all year long in September 2016, but returned to EET in October 2017)
• Estonia, in years 1921-40 and since 1989
• Finland, since 1921
• Greece, since 1916
• Israel, since 1948
• Jordan
• Latvia, in years 1926-40 and since 1989
• Lebanon
• Lithuania, in 1920 and since 1989
• Moldova, in years 1924-40 and since 1991
• Palestinian territories
• Romania, since 1931
• Syria
• Ukraine, in years 1924-30 and since 1990

Moscow used EET between 1922-30 and 1991-92. In Poland this time was used between 1918-22. Turkey, used EET between 1910-2016 except for the years 1978-85 and has switched to Moscow Time all year long.

In time of World War II MET (CET) was used in eastern countries, occupied by Germany.

Major metropolitan areas

• Athens, Greece
• Beirut, Lebanon
• Brasov, Romania
• Bucharest, Romania
• Cluj Napoca, Romania
• Chişinău, Moldova
• Damascus, Syria
• Helsinki, Finland
• Jerusalem, Israel
• Kyiv, Ukraine
• Lviv, Ukraine
• Minsk, Belarus
• Nicosia, Cyprus
• Riga, Latvia
• Sofia, Bulgaria
• Tallinn, Estonia
• Tel Aviv, Israel
• Thessaloniki, Greece
• Timişoara, Romania
• Vilnius, Lithuania