What is MSK in CET?
Central European Time is 1 hour behind
Moscow Time is on UTC+3:00 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 Moscow
- 5:13 am
- Time in Paris
- 4:13 am
- Difference
- −1 h
- Next clock change
- October 25, 2026
Convert a time
CEST — Central European Time
4:00 am
Wed
When the difference changes
Moscow 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 1 hour behind
- October 25, 2026 – March 28, 2027Central European Time is 2 hours behind
- March 28, 2027 – onwardsCentral European Time is 1 hour behind
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
Moscow Time
Moscow Time stays on MSK all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
Central European Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming CET.
MSK to CET conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from Moscow Time to Central European Time. 1 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Paris, which is marked.
- 12:00 am MSK
- 11:00 pm CEST−1 day
- 1:00 am MSK
- 12:00 am CEST
- 2:00 am MSK
- 1:00 am CEST
- 3:00 am MSK
- 2:00 am CEST
- 4:00 am MSK
- 3:00 am CEST
- 5:00 am MSK
- 4:00 am CEST
- 6:00 am MSK
- 5:00 am CEST
- 7:00 am MSK
- 6:00 am CEST
- 8:00 am MSK
- 7:00 am CEST
- 9:00 am MSK
- 8:00 am CEST
- 10:00 am MSK
- 9:00 am CEST
- 11:00 am MSK
- 10:00 am CEST
- 12:00 pm MSK
- 11:00 am CEST
- 1:00 pm MSK
- 12:00 pm CEST
- 2:00 pm MSK
- 1:00 pm CEST
- 3:00 pm MSK
- 2:00 pm CEST
- 4:00 pm MSK
- 3:00 pm CEST
- 5:00 pm MSK
- 4:00 pm CEST
- 6:00 pm MSK
- 5:00 pm CEST
- 7:00 pm MSK
- 6:00 pm CEST
- 8:00 pm MSK
- 7:00 pm CEST
- 9:00 pm MSK
- 8:00 pm CEST
- 10:00 pm MSK
- 9:00 pm CEST
- 11:00 pm MSK
- 10:00 pm CEST
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm MSK, which is 9:00 am to 5:00 pm CEST. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
Moscow Time (MSK) is used in western Russia. Russia abolished daylight saving in 2011.
Central European Time (CEST) is used in Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Stockholm