It is 11:03 am in Asia/Nicosia

Asia/Nicosia is the IANA identifier for the time zone of Nicosia in Cyprus. It is running at UTC+2 right now, abbreviated EET, and the local date is Saturday, November 7, 2026. The zone is on its standard offset at the moment.

What time is it in Asia/Nicosia right now

11:03 am on Saturday, November 7, 2026, as this page was served, which in 24 hour form is 11:03. The clock above ticks on from there in your own browser. The offset is a whole 2 hours ahead of UTC, so a UTC timestamp converts here by changing the hour and leaving the minutes exactly as they are.

32 other zones read UTC+2 at this instant. They are interchangeable as a clock reading today and not as an identifier: storing UTC+2 instead of Asia/Nicosia throws away the rule that decides what they all do at the next transition.

The UTC offset of Asia/Nicosia

An offset of UTC+2 names the meridian 30.0 degrees east. Nicosia, Cyprus actually sits at 33.35 degrees east, which is 3.4 degrees east of it, so the sun there runs about 13 minutes ahead of the clock before daylight saving is even considered. Zone boundaries are drawn by borders and by convenience, not by longitude, and this is the size of the gap that produces.

Because this zone moves its clocks, UTC+2 is only today's answer. It runs at UTC+2 for the winter part of the year and UTC+3 for the summer part, a difference of 1 hour, and any gap memorised against it is wrong for part of the year.

Daylight saving in Asia/Nicosia

Asia/Nicosia does observe daylight saving. The next change is on March 28, 2027: at 2:00 am local the clocks go forward, and UTC+2 becomes UTC+3. That hour is skipped and never appears on the clock at all, which is why a wall clock time in this zone is not always a single instant.

Every clock change the database has for this zone in 2025, 2026 and 2027, with the exact local reading either side of the jump.

How the offset of Asia/Nicosia has changed since 1970

Read on 1 January and 1 July of each year, which is the cheapest pair of samples that shows both the winter offset and whether the clocks moved that summer. The zone has passed through 2 distinct eras in that time and has used 2 different offsets: UTC+2, UTC+3. Its current behaviour has held since 1975. A rule change that began and ended between July and the following January is invisible to this sampling, so the table is a shape rather than a complete edit history.

The earliest summer shift this sampling sees here is 1975, and the zone has kept moving its clocks since. The dates the change falls on have moved several times even where the rule has not.

Countries and regions that use Asia/Nicosia

One country uses Asia/Nicosia: Cyprus, which keeps 2 zones in total and has a population of about 1,260,000.

Cities in the Asia/Nicosia time zone

The 2 cities this site covers inside Asia/Nicosia, each with a live clock and today's sunrise and sunset worked out from its own coordinate. They share an identifier, so they share a clock reading to the minute, and they do not share a sunrise: that is set by latitude and longitude.

The sun against the clock in Asia/Nicosia

Worked out for Nicosia, Cyprus, the city this site covers inside the zone, at 35.17 degrees north, 33.35 degrees east. The sun rises at 6:13 am and sets at 4:47 pm, giving 10 hours 33 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the moment the sun is highest, falls at 11:30 am, which is 30 minutes before clock noon.

That gap is the whole argument about where zone lines belong, in one number. It is made of three things: Nicosia, Cyprus sitting 3.4 degrees east of the UTC+2 meridian, the equation of time, which today runs 16.4 minutes ahead of mean time, and the hour of daylight saving this zone adds in summer. Full sunrise and sunset times for Nicosia.

Convert Asia/Nicosia to another time zone

The converter is keyed on the abbreviations people type rather than on identifiers. Asia/Nicosia is at UTC+2 right now, the same reading as EET, so these pages answer the same question for it today. They will diverge if the two zones ever adopt different daylight saving rules, which is exactly why the identifier is the thing worth storing.

Questions about Asia/Nicosia

What time is it in Asia/Nicosia right now?

11:03 am on Saturday, November 7, 2026, as this page was served. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.

What is the UTC offset of Asia/Nicosia?

UTC+2 at this instant, and it alternates between UTC+2 in winter and UTC+3 in summer.

Does Asia/Nicosia observe daylight saving time?

Yes. The next change is March 28, 2027, when the clocks go forward.

What is the abbreviation for Asia/Nicosia?

EET at this instant. The letters change with the season, because the standard and summer offsets have separate names.

Which countries use Asia/Nicosia?

Cyprus.

Why store Asia/Nicosia instead of UTC+2?

Because the offset is an output and the identifier is the input. This zone alone has two offsets in a year, and 32 other zones share its current reading while carrying different rules. A record storing UTC+2 cannot tell them apart; a record storing Asia/Nicosia keeps working through every future rule change.

Other time zones in Asia

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