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CET to EST Converter

EST = CET − 6 hours

Rest of the year

EDT = CET − 5 hours

Oct 25 – Nov 1, Mar 14 – Mar 28

3:00 PM in Paris or Berlin is 9:00 AM in New York for most of the year. For about a week in autumn and two weeks in spring the gap is 5 hours, because Europe and the US change their clocks on different dates.

12:00 PM CEST is

6:00 AM EDT

Thu, Oct 22 · 6 hours behind Paris

Thu, Oct 22 · 12:00 PM Paris / 6:00 AM ET

CET and EST right now

CET to EST time chart

Each hour of the day in Central European Time and the same moment in Eastern Time. The gap changes during the year, so each version gets its own column.

Working hours, 9 AM–5 PMNight, 10 PM–7 AM

Central European Time6 hr behindrest of the year5 hr behindEDT · Oct 25 – Nov 1, Mar 14 – Mar 28
12:00 AM6:00 PMprev. day7:00 PMprev. day
1:00 AM7:00 PMprev. day8:00 PMprev. day
2:00 AM8:00 PMprev. day9:00 PMprev. day
3:00 AM9:00 PMprev. day10:00 PMprev. day
4:00 AM10:00 PMprev. day11:00 PMprev. day
5:00 AM11:00 PMprev. day12:00 AM
6:00 AM12:00 AM1:00 AM
7:00 AM1:00 AM2:00 AM
8:00 AM2:00 AM3:00 AM
9:00 AM3:00 AM4:00 AM
10:00 AM4:00 AM5:00 AM
11:00 AM5:00 AM6:00 AM
Central European Time6 hr behindrest of the year5 hr behindEDT · Oct 25 – Nov 1, Mar 14 – Mar 28
12:00 PM6:00 AM7:00 AM
1:00 PM7:00 AM8:00 AM
2:00 PM8:00 AM9:00 AM
3:00 PM9:00 AM10:00 AM
4:00 PM10:00 AM11:00 AM
5:00 PM11:00 AM12:00 PM
6:00 PM12:00 PM1:00 PM
7:00 PM1:00 PM2:00 PM
8:00 PM2:00 PM3:00 PM
9:00 PM3:00 PM4:00 PM
10:00 PM4:00 PM5:00 PM
11:00 PM5:00 PM6:00 PM

When the difference changes

European and US clocks change on different dates, so the gap moves when either side changes. Changes in the coming year:

Standard or daylight time?

Strictly, EST is standard time. From the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November the clocks show EDT instead. Most people keep writing EST all year to mean the zone, and this page does the same: times follow the clocks in New York whatever the season.

CET and CEST

CET is UTC+1. From the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October the same countries use Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+2). The whole EU changes at 01:00 UTC, the same moment in every country, so Paris, Berlin and Madrid never disagree.

Countries on Central European Time

Germany, France, Spain (apart from the Canary Islands), Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Czechia, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, among others. The UK, Ireland and Portugal are an hour behind; Greece, Finland and the Baltic states an hour ahead.

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Last checked October 21, 2026.