Current local time in Paris
Current time in Paris
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Europe/Paris · UTC+1
Paris keeps Central European Time (CET, UTC+1) through the winter and moves to Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+2) from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October. The clock above already has the correct one applied, so there is nothing to work out by hand. Paris sits west of Greenwich by solar reckoning yet keeps Central European Time with Berlin and Madrid, an hour ahead of London all year.
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Time zone facts
- Standard time
- Central European Time (CET), UTC+1
- Summer time
- Central European Summer Time (CEST), UTC+2
- Daylight saving
- Observed from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October
- IANA timezone
- Europe/Paris
Common questions
- What time is it in Paris right now?
- The clock at the top of this page shows the current time in Paris, updated every second, with today's date and the day of the week beneath it. It reads your device's clock and converts it using the Europe/Paris rules, so it stays correct across daylight-saving changes.
- What is the UTC offset in Paris?
- CET is UTC+1 and CEST is UTC+2. Paris is on CEST from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October, and on CET for the rest of the year.
- Does Paris observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. Clocks go forward an hour for Central European Summer Time, which runs from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October, and back again at the end of it.
- What is the IANA timezone for Paris?
- Europe/Paris. That is the identifier to use in code (a database column, a cron schedule, an Intl.DateTimeFormat call), because it carries the full history of offset and daylight-saving changes for Paris rather than one fixed number.