Time in Italy

Time in Italy
Clock tower of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome
Time zoneCentral European Time
InitialsCET
UTC offsetUTC+01:00
Time notation24-hour clock
Daylight saving time
NameCentral European Summer Time
InitialsCEST
UTC offsetUTC+02:00
StartLast Sunday in March (02:00 CET)
EndLast Sunday in October (03:00 CEST)
tz database
Europe/Rome

Italy alternates between Central European Time (Italian: Tempo dell'Europa Centrale, UTC+01:00) and Central European Summer Time (Italian: Orario Estivo dell'Europa Centrale, UTC+02:00), because it follows the European Summer Time annual Daylight saving time (Italian: ora legale) procedure. As such Italy begins observing Central European Summer Time at 02:00 CET on the last Sunday in March and switches back to Central European Time on the last Sunday of October since 1996.

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Italy is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Europe/Rome. Data for Italy taken directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:

c.c.* coordinates* TZ* Comments UTC offsetDST
IT+4154+01229Europe/Rome+01:00+02:00

References

  1. ↑ Coppola, Martina (24 March 2025). "Ora legale e abolizione: a che punto siamo in Europa". LaPresse (in Italian). Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  2. ↑ "Cambio orario in Spagna, è l'ultima volta? La possibilità di abbandonare l'orario dell'Europa centrale". el Itagnol (in Italian). 28 March 2025. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  3. ↑ "Italy". The World Factbook. CIA. Archived from the original on 9 January 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  4. ↑ "Time Change 1996 in Italy". Time and Date. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  5. ↑ Europe (2020 edition) at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 20 May 2021.