Check the current local time in Paris, France. Paris uses the Europe/Paris time zone, with CET (UTC +1:00) during standard time and CEST (UTC +2:00) during daylight saving time.
CET
UTC +1:00
Used outside daylight saving time
CEST
UTC +2:00
Observed during daylight saving time
Follows local rules
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Paris runs on CET (winter) or CEST (summer). Same offset as Berlin, Amsterdam, Madrid, Rome, Warsaw. French business hours 9 AM - 6 PM with a 1-1.5 h lunch (12:30 - 2 PM). French labor law caps the standard week at 35 h — one of the shortest in the OECD — but corporate life in Paris tends to exceed that comfortably. Euronext Paris trading runs 9 AM - 5:30 PM CET.
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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