UTC+01:00

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UTC+01:00
Time zone
World map with the time zone highlighted
UTC offset
UTCUTC+01:00
Current time
20:50, 25 October 2025 UTC+01:00 [refresh]
Central meridian
15 degrees E
Date-time group
A
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 hues: Standard time observed all year
    Dark hues: Daylight saving time
Time in Africa:
Light Blue Cape Verde Time[a] (UTC−1)
Blue Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)
Red (UTC+1)[b]
Yellow (UTC+2)
Ochre (UTC+3)
Green East Africa Time (UTC+3)
Turquoise (UTC+4)
a The islands of Cape Verde and the Canary Islands lie west of the African mainland.
b During Ramadan, Morocco switches to Greenwich Mean Time (UTC) and returns to UTC+1 after it ends.
d Mauritius and the Seychelles lie to the east and northeast of Madagascar, respectively.

UTC+01:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +01:00. In ISO 8601, the associated time would be written as 2019-02-07T23:28:34+01:00. It indicates a point of time meaning Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) plus one hour. It is synonym with British Summer Time (BST).

This time is used in:

Central European Time (Northern Hemisphere winter)

Principal cities: Berlin, Budapest, Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Dortmund, Essen, Bremen, Hanover, Mainz, Rome, Milan, Naples, Venice, Florence, Palermo, Turin, Genoa, Vatican City, San Marino, Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes, Lyon, Lille, Montpellier, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Nice, Monaco, Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Málaga, Bilbao, A Coruña, Granada, Andorra, Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Zürich, Geneva, Bern, Bellinzona, Lausanne, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Brussels, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Luxembourg, Valletta, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Warsaw, Prague, Zagreb, Tirana, Sarajevo, Pristina, Podgorica, Skopje, Belgrade, Bratislava, Ljubljana, Vaduz, Schaan, Serravalle, Dogana, Monte Carlo, Monaco-Ville, Monaco, Westside, St. Paul's Bay, Malmö.

Europe

Central Europe

Antarctica

Western European Summer Time (Northern Hemisphere summer)

Principal cities: London, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Bristol, Belfast, Glasgow, Cardiff, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Lisbon, Porto, Braga, Tórshavn

Europe

Western Europe

Atlantic Ocean

As standard time (year-round)

Principal cities: Lagos, Abuja, Kinshasa, Algiers, Tunis, Rabat, Casablanca, Tangier, Marrakesh, Yaoundé, Fez, Douala, Malabo, Bata, Libreville, Niamey, Tangier, N'Djamena, Bangui, Porto-Novo, Cotonou, Luanda, Laayoune

Africa

West Africa

Discrepancies between official UTC+01:00 and geographical UTC+01:00

Areas in UTC+01:00 longitudes using UTC+02:00

From south to north:

Areas outside UTC+01:00 longitudes using UTC+01:00 time

Areas between meridians 7°30'W and 7°30'E ("physical" UTC+00:00)

All of:

  • Andorra
  • Belgium
  • Gibraltar
  • Luxembourg
  • Monaco
  • Netherlands
  • Benin

Most of:

  • Spain, excluding Canary Islands (which use UTC) and westernmost part of the mainland (see below)
  • France (with exception of small parts of Alsace, Lorraine and Provence are east of 7°30'E)
  • Algeria, including Algiers

Parts of:

  • Equatorial Guinea (Annobón Island only)
  • Morocco (northeastern part)
  • Niger (western part)
  • Nigeria (western part)
  • Germany (The very westernmost part)
  • Switzerland (westernmost part)
  • Italy (The very northwesternmost part)
  • Norway (Bouvet Island and southwesternmost part)

Areas between meridians 22°30'W and 7°30'W ("physical" UTC−01:00)

  • Spain
    • Parts of Galicia, Extremadura and Andalusia
  • Norway
    • Jan Mayen
  • Morocco
  • Western Sahara

Notes

  1. Despite being on the Southern Hemisphere, Bouvet Island uses Northern Hemisphere daylight saving time.

References

  1. 1 2 "Europe Time Zone Map". WorldTimeZone.com. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  2. "Europe Time Zone Globe". TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
  3. "Time Zones of Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo Kinshasa)". Statoids. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
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