What is CET in MSK?
Moscow Time is 1 hour ahead
Central European Time is on UTC+2:00 and Moscow Time is on UTC+3:00 right now. Central European Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read CEST. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Paris
- 4:56 am
- Time in Moscow
- 5:56 am
- Difference
- +1 h
- Next clock change
- October 25, 2026
Convert a time
MSK — Moscow Time
5:00 am
Wed
When the difference changes
Central European Time and Moscow Time do not change their clocks on the same dates, so the gap between them is not the same all year. Most converters show only today’s figure. These are the periods ahead:
- Now – October 25, 2026Moscow Time is 1 hour ahead
- October 25, 2026 – March 28, 2027Moscow Time is 2 hours ahead
- March 28, 2027 – onwardsMoscow Time is 1 hour ahead
Periods shorter than a day are not listed: both zones change at 2am in their own local time, so there are a few hours on each transition date when the gap is briefly something else.
Daylight saving
Central European Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming CET.
Moscow Time
Moscow Time stays on MSK all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
CET to MSK conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from Central European Time to Moscow Time. 1 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Moscow, which is marked.
- 12:00 am CEST
- 1:00 am MSK
- 1:00 am CEST
- 2:00 am MSK
- 2:00 am CEST
- 3:00 am MSK
- 3:00 am CEST
- 4:00 am MSK
- 4:00 am CEST
- 5:00 am MSK
- 5:00 am CEST
- 6:00 am MSK
- 6:00 am CEST
- 7:00 am MSK
- 7:00 am CEST
- 8:00 am MSK
- 8:00 am CEST
- 9:00 am MSK
- 9:00 am CEST
- 10:00 am MSK
- 10:00 am CEST
- 11:00 am MSK
- 11:00 am CEST
- 12:00 pm MSK
- 12:00 pm CEST
- 1:00 pm MSK
- 1:00 pm CEST
- 2:00 pm MSK
- 2:00 pm CEST
- 3:00 pm MSK
- 3:00 pm CEST
- 4:00 pm MSK
- 4:00 pm CEST
- 5:00 pm MSK
- 5:00 pm CEST
- 6:00 pm MSK
- 6:00 pm CEST
- 7:00 pm MSK
- 7:00 pm CEST
- 8:00 pm MSK
- 8:00 pm CEST
- 9:00 pm MSK
- 9:00 pm CEST
- 10:00 pm MSK
- 10:00 pm CEST
- 11:00 pm MSK
- 11:00 pm CEST
- 12:00 am MSK+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm CEST, which is 10:00 am to 6:00 pm MSK. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
Central European Time (CEST) is used in Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Stockholm
Moscow Time (MSK) is used in western Russia. Russia abolished daylight saving in 2011.