What is GMT in CET?
Central European Time is 2 hours ahead
Greenwich Mean Time is on UTC+0:00 and Central European Time is on UTC+2:00 right now. Central European Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read CEST. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Greenwich
- 1:34 am
- Time in Paris
- 3:34 am
- Difference
- +2 h
- Next clock change
- October 25, 2026
Convert a time
CEST — Central European Time
3:00 am
Wed
When the difference changes
Greenwich Mean Time and Central European 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, 2026Central European Time is 2 hours ahead
- October 25, 2026 – March 28, 2027Central European Time is 1 hour ahead
- March 28, 2027 – onwardsCentral European Time is 2 hours 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
Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time stays on GMT all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
Central European Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming CET.
GMT to CET conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from Greenwich Mean Time to Central European Time. 2 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Paris, which is marked.
- 12:00 am GMT
- 2:00 am CEST
- 1:00 am GMT
- 3:00 am CEST
- 2:00 am GMT
- 4:00 am CEST
- 3:00 am GMT
- 5:00 am CEST
- 4:00 am GMT
- 6:00 am CEST
- 5:00 am GMT
- 7:00 am CEST
- 6:00 am GMT
- 8:00 am CEST
- 7:00 am GMT
- 9:00 am CEST
- 8:00 am GMT
- 10:00 am CEST
- 9:00 am GMT
- 11:00 am CEST
- 10:00 am GMT
- 12:00 pm CEST
- 11:00 am GMT
- 1:00 pm CEST
- 12:00 pm GMT
- 2:00 pm CEST
- 1:00 pm GMT
- 3:00 pm CEST
- 2:00 pm GMT
- 4:00 pm CEST
- 3:00 pm GMT
- 5:00 pm CEST
- 4:00 pm GMT
- 6:00 pm CEST
- 5:00 pm GMT
- 7:00 pm CEST
- 6:00 pm GMT
- 8:00 pm CEST
- 7:00 pm GMT
- 9:00 pm CEST
- 8:00 pm GMT
- 10:00 pm CEST
- 9:00 pm GMT
- 11:00 pm CEST
- 10:00 pm GMT
- 12:00 am CEST+1 day
- 11:00 pm GMT
- 1:00 am CEST+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm GMT, which is 11:00 am to 6:00 pm CEST. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is used in as a fixed UTC+0 offset. Note that the UK itself leaves GMT every summer — see British Time below.
Central European Time (CEST) is used in Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Stockholm