UTC+03:00

UTC+03:00 – 2011: orange (DST Northern Hemisphere), yellow (all year round), light blue (sea areas)
Time in Europe:
light blue Western European Time / Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)
blue Western European Time / Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)
Western European Summer Time / British Summer Time / Irish Standard Time (UTC+1)
red Central European Time (UTC+1)
Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
yellow Eastern European Time / Kaliningrad Time (UTC+2)
golden Eastern European Time (UTC+2)
Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3)
light green Further-eastern European Time / Moscow Time / Turkey Time (UTC+3)
Light colours indicate where standard time is observed all year; dark colours indicate where a summer time is observed.
Time zones of Africa:
 -01:00  Cape Verde Time[a]
 ±00:00 
 +01:00 
 +02:00 
 +03:00  East Africa Time
 +04:00 
Light colours indicate where standard time is observed all year; dark colours indicate where daylight saving is observed.
a The islands of Cape Verde are to the west of the African mainland.
Time in the Middle East
    UTC+02:00 Eastern European Time
    UTC+02:00

UTC+03:00 		Eastern European Time /
Israel Standard Time /
Palestine Standard Time
Eastern European Summer Time /
Israel Summer Time /
Palestine Summer Time
    UTC+03:00 Turkey Time
Arabia Standard Time
    UTC+03:30
UTC+04:30 		Iran Standard Time
Iran Daylight Time
    UTC+04:00 Gulf Standard Time
Light colors indicate where standard time is observed all year; dark colors indicate where daylight savings is observed.

Time in Russia
     KALT Kaliningrad Time UTC+2 (MSK−1)
     MSK Moscow Time UTC+3 (MSK±0)
     SAMT Samara Time UTC+4 (MSK+1)
     YEKT Yekaterinburg Time UTC+5 (MSK+2)
     OMST Omsk Time UTC+6 (MSK+3)
     KRAT Krasnoyarsk Time UTC+7 (MSK+4)
     IRKT Irkutsk Time UTC+8 (MSK+5)
     YAKT Yakutsk Time UTC+9 (MSK+6)
     VLAT Vladivostok Time UTC+10 (MSK+7)
     MAGT Magadan Time UTC+11 (MSK+8)
     PETT Kamchatka Time UTC+12 (MSK+9)

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

Some areas in the world use UTC+03:00 all year.

As standard time (all year round)

Europe

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

Principal cities: Moscow, Istanbul, Riyadh, Baghdad, Nairobi, Minsk, Doha

Most of European Russia, including Moscow, St. 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, all year around.[1] Also on September 7, 2016, Turkey started using UTC+03:00 all year round.[2][3] Besides the names mentioned above, the name 'Eastern Europe Forward Time' (EEFT) is sometimes used.

Asia

Arabia Standard Time

Not to be confused with Atlantic Standard Time.

Arabia Standard Time, or AST (indicated by KSA on some Arab TV stations), is used by some countries in the Middle 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 observed Arabia Daylight Time (UTC+04:00) but the government abolished DST in March 2008. Arabia Standard Time is used by the following countries:[9][10]

Notes:

  1. The easternmost point at UTC+03:00 is the easternmost point of Saudi Arabia, in the Eastern Province, at the border with Oman, with a longitude of roughly 55°20' E.

Africa

Main article: East Africa Time

As daylight saving time (Northern Hemisphere summer only)

Main articles: Eastern European Summer Time and Israel Summer Time

Principal cities: Kiev, Bucharest, Jerusalem, Athens

Europe

Middle East

See also

Notes

  1. The westernmost point at UTC+03:00 is the westernmost point of contiguous Russia, near Lavry, Pskov Oblast (27°19' E). Time zone employed there (corresponding to 60°E) is 33°41' E of physical time, i.e. roughly 1 hour and 14 minutes ahead of physical time, making for the largest discrepancy between time used and physical time for UTC+03:00. This is the largest discrepancy overall for UTC+03:00.
  2. The easternmost point at UTC+03:00 is Cape Zhelaniya, Severny Island, Novaya Zemlya, Russia (69°06' E). the time zone employed there (corresponding to 45°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 President Dmitry Medvedev issued a decree cancelling DST in 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 Time UTC+04:00 permanently.

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 to winter time by setting the clocks back by 1 hour effectively making Kaliningrad Time UTC+02:00 permanently and Moscow Time UTC+03:00 permanently.

  1. Ukraine had UTC+02:00 plus regularly EEST from 1992 till 2011 (in years 1981–89 Moscow Summer Time) until the Ukrainian parliament added 1 hour "on the territory of Ukraine from March 27, 2011" and canceled DST on September 20, 2011 de facto making EEST (UTC+03:00) the new standard time.[14] After strong criticism from the mass media, on 18 October 2011 the Ukrainian parliament cancelled its previous decision.[15]

References

  1. ^ Russia returns to European DST in October 2014
  2. ^ "Turkey Stays on Daylight Saving Time for Good". Time and Date. September 7, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
  3. ^ "Occupied Northern Cyprus to Follow Turkey Time". September 14, 2016. Retrieved September 14, 2016.
  4. ^ "Transition to winter time will take place in Abkhazia in parallel with Russia - Vestnik Kavkaza". vestnikkavkaza.net. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  5. ^ "Russia Time Zone Map". WorldTimeZone.com. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  6. ^ "Ukraine: Luhansk and Donetsk move to Moscow Time". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  7. ^ "DPR and LPR switch over to Moscow time". Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  8. ^ "DST News - Donetsk and Lugansk Republics UTC+2 will join Moscow timezone UTC+3 at 3am on October 26 2014". www.worldtimezone.com. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  9. ^ "AST – Arabia Standard Time". timeanddate.com. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
  10. ^ "Winter time change will be abandoned this year". cnnturk.com. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  11. ^ "Current Times In Bassas da India..." Time Genie. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
  12. ^ "Current Time In Europa Island, Europa Island..." Time Genie. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
  13. ^ "Current Times In Juan de Nova Island..." Time Genie. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
  14. ^ Ukraine cancels use of daylight saving time, Kyiv Post (September 20, 2011)
  15. ^ "Ukraine to return to standard time on Oct. 30 (updated)". Kyiv Post. 18 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2011.