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Rome — Europe/Rome

The current local time in the Europe/Rome IANA time zone is shown below. It is the tz database identifier used in Italy. The zone is currently at UTC +02:00 · CEST and observes daylight saving time.

Europe/Rome

17:39:21

Thursday, 22 October 2026 CEST

Zone information

IANA designation

Europe/Rome

Region: Europe

Reference pages: CET

Offset & DST

Current UTC offset: +02:00

Daylight saving: Observed

January offset +01:00 · July offset +02:00

Countries using Europe/Rome

Rome vs. major cities

How far Rome is from the world's main business centres right now, what time it is there when the working day starts in Rome, and which hours of a 09:00–17:00 day the two places share. Daylight saving changes are applied automatically.

City Difference At 09:00 in Rome Shared office hours
New York · United States −6 h 03:00 15:00–17:00
Los Angeles · United States −9 h 00:00 None
São Paulo · Brazil −5 h 04:00 14:00–17:00
London · United Kingdom −1 h 08:00 10:00–17:00
Paris · France Same time 09:00 09:00–17:00
Johannesburg · South Africa Same time 09:00 09:00–17:00
Dubai · United Arab Emirates +2 h 11:00 09:00–15:00
Delhi · India +3:30 h 12:30 09:00–13:30
Singapore · Singapore +6 h 15:00 09:00–11:00
Beijing · China +6 h 15:00 09:00–11:00

Shared office hours are shown in Rome time. Compare any set of cities hour by hour in the time zone converter, or pick a slot that suits everyone with the event planner.

Clock changes in Rome

Rome has alternated between UTC +01:00 in standard time and UTC +02:00 in daylight saving time since at least 1970. Clocks currently go forward on the last Sunday in March and back on the last Sunday in October, a rule in place since 1996.

DateChangeLocal clockNew offset
Sunday, 29 March 2026 Forward 1 hour 02:00 → 03:00 UTC +02:00
Sunday, 25 October 2026 Back 1 hour 03:00 → 02:00 UTC +01:00
Sunday, 28 March 2027 Forward 1 hour 02:00 → 03:00 UTC +02:00
Sunday, 31 October 2027 Back 1 hour 03:00 → 02:00 UTC +01:00

When clocks go forward, sunrise and sunset both happen an hour later by the clock — darker mornings, lighter evenings — and the night of the change is an hour shorter. When they go back, the reverse applies.

Source: IANA tz database, as shipped with the Unicode ICU library.

Cities in this zone

Zones on the same clock as Rome

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These zones show the same time as Europe/Rome on every day of 2026, changing their clocks at the same moments. Their histories may differ.

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