Amsterdam uses the Europe/Amsterdam time zone, with CET (UTC +1:00) during standard time and CEST (UTC +2:00) during daylight saving time.
Europe/Amsterdam
CEST
CET
UTC +1:00
CEST
UTC +2:00
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Amsterdam runs on CET (winter) or CEST (summer). Same offset as the wider Netherlands. Business hours 9 AM - 5 PM typically, with strong lunch-break culture. Euronext Amsterdam trading runs 9 AM - 5:30 PM CET. Amsterdam is a major European tech hub — Booking.com, Adyen, Elastic all headquarter here — and the Schiphol area is a major transcontinental logistics anchor.
Europe stretches across four main timezones — GMT/BST (UK, Ireland, Portugal), CET/CEST (most of continental Europe), EET/EEST (Greece, Finland, the Baltics), and MSK (Russia's westernmost cities). Most countries observe DST in unison — last Sunday of March to last Sunday of October — creating clean 1-hour steps between neighbouring zones. Icelandic and Russian cities are exceptions with no seasonal shift.
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