Eastern European Summer Time

File:Time zones of Europe.svg Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) is one of the names of UTC+3 time zone, 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used as a summer daylight saving time in some European, North African, and Middle Eastern countries. During the winter, Eastern European Time (UTC+2) is used.

Since 1996 European Summer Time has been observed from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October; previously the rules were not uniform across the European Union.

Usage

The following countries and territories use Eastern European Summer Time during the summer:

• Belarus, in years 1981–89 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1991
• Bulgaria, regularly since 1979
• Cyprus, regularly since 1979
• Estonia, in years 1981–88 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1989
• Finland, regularly since 1981
• Greece, regularly since 1975
• Israel, regularly since 1948
• Jordan, since 1985
• Latvia, in years 1981–88 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1989
• Lebanon, since 1984
• Lithuania, in years 1981–88 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1989, in years 1998 was changed to Central European Summer Time, but returned to EEST since 2003
• Moldova, in years 1932–40, 1981–89 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1991
• Romania, in years 1932–40, regularly since 1979
• Russia (Kaliningrad), in years 1981–90 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1991, as standard time from March 2011.
• Syria, since 1983
• Turkey, in years 1970-78 EEST, in years 1979–83 as in Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1985
• Ukraine, in years 1981–89 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST from 1992

In one year 1991 EEST was used also in Moscow and Samara time zones of Russia.

Colour	Legal time vs local mean time
	1 h ± 30 m behind
	0 h ± 30 m
	1 h ± 30 m ahead
	2 h ± 30 m ahead
	3 h ± 30 m ahead

European summer

See also

• European Summer Time
• UTC+3