EET — Eastern European Time

Eastern European Time (EET) is two hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time and is used by countries along the eastern edge of Europe, the eastern Mediterranean, and northeastern Africa. Notable countries and territories using EET include Finland, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, and Turkey (which uses a fixed UTC+3 but borders EET countries). Major cities in this zone include Helsinki, Athens, Bucharest, Cairo, and Istanbul.

EET serves as a bridge between the Central European and Middle Eastern time zones and covers a diverse range of cultures and economies. The zone includes major financial centers, important shipping routes through the eastern Mediterranean, and historically significant cities that have been crossroads of trade for millennia. Cairo, one of the largest cities in the zone, serves as the political and cultural capital of the Arab world.

Most European countries in the EET zone observe daylight saving time, switching to Eastern European Summer Time (EEST, UTC+3) from late March to late October. However, Egypt abolished DST in 2014, and Turkey permanently moved to UTC+3 in 2016, effectively leaving EET. Israel follows its own DST schedule, which differs slightly from the European calendar and is set by the Knesset each year.