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Poland keeps Central European Time, CET, UTC+1, in winter and Central European Summer Time, CEST, UTC+2, in summer. The clock above shows Poland's time live, with seconds, and moves between the two on its own.

Updated 30 September 2026 · Time zone data 2026e · Sources

Time zone in Poland

Warsaw, Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź and Gdańsk all keep the same time.

Time zone: Central European Time
Standard time: CET, UTC+1
Daylight saving time: CEST, UTC+2
Main cities: Warsaw, Łódź, Kraków, Wrocław

When the clocks change in Poland

Clocks in Poland change twice a year.

Clocks go back

Sunday 25 October 2026

3:00 AMto2:00 AM

Then CET, UTC+1

Clocks go forward

Sunday 28 March 2027

2:00 AMto3:00 AM

Then CEST, UTC+2

Last change: On Sunday 29 March 2026 at 2:00 AM, clocks went forward one hour, to CEST.

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How many hours ahead or behind Poland

On 12 October 2026, Kolkata is 3 hours 30 minutes ahead of Poland.

City	Difference from Poland
Kolkata	3 hours 30 minutes ahead
London	1 hour behind
Dublin	1 hour behind
Berlin	Same time
Kyiv	1 hour ahead
New York	6 hours behind
Chicago	7 hours behind
Dubai	2 hours ahead
Your time zone	Detected after this page loads

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How Poland keeps its time

The official time: GUMkeeps Poland's official time; By law, the President of the Central Office of Measures, GUM, keeps Poland's official time and broadcasts its signals. GUM's Time and Frequency Laboratory runs the national time scale on caesium clocks. The Space Research Centre's observatory at Borówiec helps build the national atomic time scale.; Sources Sejm of the Republic of Poland, Act on official time, Central Office of Measures, Information on official time, Central Office of Measures, National standard of time and frequency, Space Research Centre PAS, Borówiec time and frequency laboratory
Summer time by regulation: athe letter that marks the repeated hour each autumn; The law defines official time as Central European Time, or Central European Summer Time while it is in force. The Prime Minister sets the summer-time dates by regulation, several years at a time. When the clocks go back, the repeated hour is marked with an extra letter a.; Sources Sejm of the Republic of Poland, Act on official time, Sejm of the Republic of Poland, Prime Minister's summer time regulation
Ahead of the sun: 15° Ethe meridian Central European time is set by; Central European time is set by the 15° east meridian, and almost all of Poland lies east of it. So the sun is highest before noon by the clock. In the far east of the country, that comes more than half an hour early in winter. In summer it comes more than an hour and a half early.; Sources Statistics Poland, Statistical Yearbook, geographical position, Integrated Education Platform, Ministry of Education, solar noon
Summer time all year, not yet: 0laws passed to end the change; A private members' bill to keep summer time all year reached the Sejm. It was sent to a committee for its first reading, and has not passed. The European Union's plan to end clock changes is on hold too. So Poland still changes its clocks twice a year.; Sources Sejm of the Republic of Poland, bill 1815 on official time, European Parliament, Legislative Train, ending seasonal clock changes
Eastern time, once: 2 hahead of Greenwich, for a few years after the First World War; For a few years after the First World War, Poland kept Eastern European time, two hours ahead of Greenwich. After the Second World War it went without summer time for long stretches, before the clock change became yearly again.; Sources IANA time zone database, Europe zones file, Wprost, history of the clock change in Poland

Questions about time in Poland

What time zone is Poland in?

Poland keeps Central European Time, CET, UTC+1, in winter and Central European Summer Time, CEST, UTC+2, in summer. The whole country shares one time. By law the Central Office of Measures, GUM, keeps the official time and broadcasts its signals. The time comes from atomic clocks in its laboratory.

When do the clocks change in Poland?

The Prime Minister sets the exact dates by regulation, on the same schedule as the rest of the European Union. The clocks go forward one hour on the last Sunday in March. They go back on the last Sunday in October. The cards above show the next two changes with their times.

Is Poland on the same time as the UK?

No. London is 1 hour behind Poland in every season, since both countries change their clocks on the same nights. Germany, the Netherlands and Norway, where many Poles abroad live, keep exactly the same time as Poland. Ireland keeps the same time as the UK.

What is the time difference between Poland and India?

India is 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of Poland in the Polish winter. Polish summer time cuts the gap by an hour, as India keeps its clocks unchanged. When offices in India close in the early evening, it is early afternoon in Warsaw.

What is the time difference between Poland and the US?

Chicago is 7 hours behind Poland for most of the year, and New York is 6 hours behind Poland. Both gaps shrink by an hour for a few weeks in March and one week in autumn. In those weeks one side has changed its clocks and the other has not yet.

Time zone names for developers

IANA zone	Standard time	Daylight saving time
Europe/Warsaw	CET, UTC+1	Yes

Sources

We checked each fact on this page against these sources on 30 September 2026. Times, offsets and clock changes come from the time zone database.