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UTC+03:00
Time zone
World map with the time zone highlighted
UTC offset
UTCUTC+03:00
Current time
18:40, 17 July 2024UTC+03:00[refresh]
Centralmeridian
45 degrees E
Date-time group
C
UTC+03:00 – 2011: orange (DST Northern Hemisphere), yellow (year-round), light blue (sea areas)
Time zones of Africa:
Light BlueCape Verde Time[a](UTC−1)
BlueGreenwich Mean Time(UTC)
Red
(UTC+1)
Ochre
(UTC+2)
GreenEast Africa Time(UTC+3)
Turquoise
(UTC+4)
aThe islands ofCape Verdeare to the west of the African mainland.
bMauritiusand theSeychellesare to the east and north-east of Madagascar respectively.
Time in the Middle East
UTC+02:00Egypt Standard Time
UTC+02:00

UTC+03:00		Eastern European Time/
Israel Standard Time/
Eastern European Summer Time/
Israel Summer Time
UTC+03:00Arabia Standard Time/
Turkey Time
UTC+03:30Iran Standard Time
UTC+04:00Gulf Standard Time
▉▉▉▉Standard timeobserved all year
▉Daylight saving timeobserved
Time in Europe:
Light BlueWestern European Time/Greenwich Mean Time(UTC)
BlueWestern European Time/Greenwich Mean Time(UTC)
Western European Summer Time/British Summer Time/Irish Standard Time(UTC+1)
RedCentral European Time(UTC+1)
Central European Summer Time(UTC+2)
YellowEastern European Time/Kaliningrad Time(UTC+2)
OchreEastern European Time(UTC+2)
Eastern European Summer Time(UTC+3)
GreenMoscow Time/Turkey Time(UTC+3)
TurquoiseArmenia Time/Azerbaijan Time/Georgia Time/Samara Time(UTC+4)
▉▉▉▉Pale colours: Standard time observed all year
▉▉▉Dark colours:Summer timeobserved
Time in Russia
KALTKaliningrad TimeUTC+2(MSK−1)
MSKMoscow TimeUTC+3(MSK±0)
SAMTSamara TimeUTC+4(MSK+1)
YEKTYekaterinburg TimeUTC+5(MSK+2)
OMSTOmsk TimeUTC+6(MSK+3)
KRATKrasnoyarsk TimeUTC+7(MSK+4)
IRKTIrkutsk TimeUTC+8(MSK+5)
YAKTYakutsk TimeUTC+9(MSK+6)
VLATVladivostok TimeUTC+10(MSK+7)
MAGTMagadan TimeUTC+11(MSK+8)
PETTKamchatka TimeUTC+12(MSK+9)

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

As standard time (year-round)[edit]

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[edit]

Main article:East Africa Time

East Africa[edit]

Antarctica[edit]

Asia[edit]

Arabia Standard Time[edit]

For other time zones with the abbreviation AST, seeAST (time).

Arabia Standard Time, or AST (indicated byKSAon some Arabic TV stations), is used by some of the countries in theMiddle 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 observedArabia 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[edit]

Main articles:Further-eastern European Time,Moscow Time,andTime in Turkey

Most ofEuropean Russia,includingMoscow,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[edit]

As daylight saving time (Northern Hemisphere summer only)[edit]

Main articles:Eastern European Summer TimeandIsrael Summer Time

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

Europe[edit]

Asia[edit]

  • Israel
  • Lebanon

Africa[edit]

Discrepancies between official UTC+03:00 and geographical UTC+03:00[edit]

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

UsingUTC+04:00:

UsingUTC+03:30:

  • Iran
    • The western part, includingTehran

UsingUTC+02:00:

  • Ukraine (standard time)
    • The easternmost part, includingLuhansk(the territories under Ukrainian control)
  • Sudan
    • The very easternmost part in the country
  • Mozambique

Areas outside UTC+03:00 longitudes using UTC+03:00 time[edit]

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

  • Russia

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

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

Notes[edit]

  1. The westernmost point at UTC+03:00 is the westernmost point of contiguous Russia, nearLavry,Pskov Oblast(27°19' E). Thetime zoneemployed there (corresponding to45°E) is 17°41' E of physical time, i.e. roughly 1 hour and 11 minutes ahead ofphysical 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 isCape Zhelaniya,Severny Island,Novaya Zemlya,Russia (69°06' E). The time zone employed there (corresponding to45°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 presidentDmitry Medvedevissued a decree cancellingdaylight saving timein 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 TimeUTC+04:00permanently. 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 tostandard timeby setting the clocks back by 1 hour effectively making Kaliningrad TimeUTC+02:00permanently and Moscow Time UTC+03:00 permanently.
  4. Ukraine had UTC+02:00 plus regularlyEESTfrom 1990 till 2011 (in years 1981–1990 Moscow Summer Time) until theUkrainian parliamentadded 1 hour "on the territory of Ukraine from March 27, 2011" and canceled daylight saving time on September 20, 2011,de factomaking 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]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^"Current Times In Bassas da India..."Time Genie.Retrieved18 August2012.
  2. ^"Current Time In Europa Island, Europa Island..."Time Genie.Retrieved18 August2012.
  3. ^"Current Times In Juan de Nova Island..."Time Genie.Retrieved18 August2012.
  4. ^"World Time Zone Map Section # 19".WorldTimeZone.Retrieved15 July2012.
  5. ^"AST – Arabia Standard Time".timeanddate.Retrieved31 August2011.
  6. ^"Winter time change will be abandoned this year".cnnturk.Retrieved8 September2016.
  7. ^Russia returns to European DST in October 2014
  8. ^"Turkey Stays on Daylight Saving Time for Good".Time and Date.September 7, 2016.RetrievedSeptember 7,2016.
  9. ^"Occupied Northern Cyprus to Follow Turkey Time".September 14, 2016.RetrievedSeptember 14,2016.
  10. ^"Russia Time Zone Map".WorldTimeZone.Retrieved22 March2018.
  11. ^"Ukraine: Luhansk and Donetsk move to Moscow Time".timeanddate.Retrieved5 September2018.
  12. ^"DPR and LPR switch over to Moscow time".Retrieved5 September2018.
  13. ^"DST News - Donetsk and Lugansk Republics UTC+2 will join Moscow time zone UTC+3 at 3am on October 26 2014".worldtimezone.Retrieved5 September2018.
  14. ^ab"Transition to winter time will take place in Abkhazia in parallel with Russia - Vestnik Kavkaza".vestnikkavkaza.net.Retrieved5 September2018.
  15. ^"Egypt to reapply daylight-saving time annually to rationalise use of energy".Ahram.1 March 2023.Retrieved20 March2023.
  16. ^"Ukraine cancels use of daylight saving time".Kyiv Post.20 September 2011.
  17. ^"Ukraine to return to standard time on Oct. 30 (updated)".Kyiv Post.18 October 2011.Retrieved18 October2011.
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