Istanbul uses Europe/Istanbul, currently UTC+03:00 all year.
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Turkey no longer switches between EET and EEST. Istanbul therefore stays three hours ahead of UTC while the EU still changes clocks. That creates a seasonal one-hour shift versus Berlin and Paris.
Istanbul uses Europe/Istanbul. The current offset is UTC+03:00. Clocks on this page update from that IANA zone rather than from the server’s local time.
Istanbul, Turkey is in Europe/Istanbul (Europe/Istanbul). Istanbul uses Europe/Istanbul, currently UTC+03:00 all year.
This time zone does not observe daylight saving time
At this moment the offset difference is +00:00 hours relative to UTC labels, meaning Istanbul compared with Cairo can be converted in the time zone converter using Europe/Istanbul and Africa/Cairo. Daylight saving on either side is applied automatically.