UTC+03:00

Last updated
UTC+03:00
Time zone
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World map with the time zone highlighted
UTC offset
UTCUTC+03:00
Current time
13:53, 12 December 2024 UTC+03:00 [refresh]
Central meridian
45 degrees E
Date-time group
C
UTC+03:00 - 2011: orange (DST Northern Hemisphere), yellow (year-round), light blue (sea areas) Timezones2011 UTC+3.png
UTC+03:00 – 2011: orange (DST Northern Hemisphere), yellow (year-round), light blue (sea areas)
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Time zones of Africa:
Light Blue Cape Verde Time (UTC−1)
Blue Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)
Red
(UTC+1)
Ochre
(UTC+2)
Green East Africa Time (UTC+3)
Turquoise
(UTC+4)
The islands of Cape Verde and Canary Islands are to the west of the African mainland.
Mauritius and the Seychelles are to the east and north-east of Madagascar respectively.
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 Time Zones of the Middle East.svg
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
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 Time zones of Europe, incl. Transcaucasia.svg
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
Time in Russia .mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{} KALT Kaliningrad Time UTC+2 (MSK-1) MSK Moscow Time UTC+3 (MSK+-0) SAMT Samara Time UTC+4 (MSK+1) YEKT Yekaterinburg Time UTC+5 (MSK+2) OMST Omsk Time UTC+6 (MSK+3) KRAT Krasnoyarsk Time UTC+7 (MSK+4) IRKT Irkutsk Time UTC+8 (MSK+5) YAKT Yakutsk Time UTC+9 (MSK+6) VLAT Vladivostok Time UTC+10 (MSK+7) MAGT Magadan Time UTC+11 (MSK+8) PETT Kamchatka Time UTC+12 (MSK+9) Map of Russian time zones (2020) - without Crimea.svg
Time in Russia
 KALT Kaliningrad Time UTC+2 (MSK−1)
 MSK Moscow Time UTC+3 (MSK±0)
 SAMT Samara Time UTC+4 (MSK+1)
 YEKT Yekaterinburg Time UTC+5 (MSK+2)
 OMST Omsk Time UTC+6 (MSK+3)
 KRAT Krasnoyarsk Time UTC+7 (MSK+4)
 IRKT Irkutsk Time UTC+8 (MSK+5)
 YAKT Yakutsk Time UTC+9 (MSK+6)
 VLAT Vladivostok Time UTC+10 (MSK+7)
 MAGT Magadan Time UTC+11 (MSK+8)
 PETT Kamchatka Time UTC+12 (MSK+9)

UTC+03:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +03:00. In areas using this time offset, the time is three hours ahead of the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Following the ISO 8601 standard, a time with this offset would be written as, for example, 2019-02-08T23:36:06+03:00.

Contents

As standard time (year-round)

Principal cities: Istanbul, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Doha, Riyadh, Baghdad, Nairobi, Dire Dawa, Addis Ababa, Manama, Sanaa, Aden, Minsk, Kuwait City, Asmara, Antananarivo, Kampala, Amman, Damascus

Africa

East Africa

Antarctica

Asia

Arabia Standard Time

Arabia Standard Time, or AST (indicated by KSA on some Arabic TV stations), is used by some of the countries in the Middle East. As this time zone is predominantly in the equatorial region, there is no significant change in day length throughout the year, so daylight saving time is not observed. Between 1982 and 2007, Iraq observed Arabia Daylight Time (UTC+04:00) but the government abolished DST in March 2008. [5] [6]

Arabia Standard Time is used by the following countries:

  • Bahrain
  • Iraq
  • Jordan
  • Kuwait
  • Qatar
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Syria
  • Yemen

Europe

Most of European Russia, including Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Novaya Zemlya, Franz Josef Land. From October 26, 2014 Moscow and most other parts of European Russia started using UTC+03:00 again, year-round. [7] Also on September 7, 2016, Turkey started using UTC+03:00 year-round. [8] [9] Besides the names mentioned above, the name "Eastern Europe Forward Time"' (EEFT) is sometimes used.

Caucasus region

As daylight saving time (Northern Hemisphere summer only)

Principal cities: Kyiv, Bucharest, Athens, Jerusalem, Sofia

Europe

Asia

Africa

Discrepancies between official UTC+03:00 and geographical UTC+03:00

Areas in UTC+03:00 longitudes using other time zones

Using UTC+04:00:

Using UTC+03:30:

Using UTC+02:00:

Areas outside UTC+03:00 longitudes using UTC+03:00 time

Areas between 67°30′ E and 82°30′ E ("physical" UTC+05:00)

  • Russia
    • The very east of Severny Island with 69°2' E as the easternmost point

Areas between 52°30' E and 67°30' E ("physical" UTC+04:00)

Areas between 22°30' E and 37°30' E ("physical" UTC+02:00)

Notes

  1. The westernmost point at UTC+03:00 is the westernmost point of contiguous Russia, near Lavry, Pskov Oblast (27°19' E). The time zone employed there (corresponding to 45°E) is 17°41' E of physical time, i.e. roughly 1 hour and 11 minutes ahead of physical time, making for the largest overall discrepancy between time used and physical time for UTC+03:00.
  2. The easternmost point at UTC+03:00 is Cape Zhelaniya, Severny Island, Novaya Zemlya, Russia (69°06' E). The time zone employed there (corresponding to 45°E) is 24°06' W of physical time, i.e. roughly 1 hour and 36 minutes behind physical time, making for the largest discrepancy between time used and physical time for UTC+03:00.
  3. On February 8, 2011, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev issued a decree cancelling daylight saving time in Russia. Under the decree, all clocks in Russia advanced by 1 hour on March 27, 2011, but did not change back the following October, effectively making Kaliningrad Time UTC+03:00 permanently, and Moscow Time UTC+04:00 permanently. This proved unpopular because of the dark mornings, children walking to school and people going to work in complete darkness. On October 26, 2014, Russia permanently returned to standard time by setting the clocks back by 1 hour effectively making Kaliningrad Time UTC+02:00 permanently and Moscow Time UTC+03:00 permanently.
  4. Ukraine had UTC+02:00 plus regularly EEST from 1990 till 2011 (in years 1981–1990 Moscow Summer Time) until the Ukrainian parliament added 1 hour "on the territory of Ukraine from March 27, 2011" and canceled daylight saving time on September 20, 2011, de facto making EEST (UTC+03:00) the new standard time. [16] After strong criticism from the mass media, on 18 October 2011 the Ukrainian parliament cancelled its previous decision. [17]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eastern European Time</span> Time zone in Eastern Europe (GMT +2)

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Moscow Time is the time zone for the city of Moscow, Russia, and most of western Russia, including Saint Petersburg. It is the second-westernmost of the eleven time zones of Russia. It has been set to UTC+03:00 without DST since 26 October 2014; before that date it had been set to UTC+04:00 year-round on 27 March 2011.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eastern European Summer Time</span> Daylight saving time zone used in Eastern Europe (UTC+3)

Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) is one of the names of the UTC+03:00 time zone, which is 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used as a summer daylight saving time in some European and Middle Eastern countries, which makes it the same as Arabia Standard Time, East Africa Time, and Moscow Time. During the winter periods, Eastern European Time (UTC+02:00) is used.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">UTC+05:00</span> Identifier for a time offset from UTC of +5:00

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Time in Turkey</span> Türkiye time zone

In Turkey, time is given by UTC+03:00 year-round. This time is also called Turkey Time (TRT). The time at most is the same as in the Moscow Time and Arabia Standard Time zones. TRT was adopted by the Turkish Government on 8 September 2016. It was also in use in Northern Cyprus until it reverted to Eastern European Time (EET) in October 2017.

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