Time in Albania

Time in Albania
A clock tower in Gjirokastër
Time zone	Central European Time
Initials	CET
UTC offset	UTC+01:00
Adopted	1914
Daylight saving time
Name	Central European Summer Time
Initials	CEST
UTC offset	UTC+02:00
Start	Last Sunday in March (02:00 CET)
End	Last Sunday in October (03:00 CEST)
tz database
Europe/Tirane

In Albania, the standard time is Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00).[1] Daylight saving time, which moves one hour ahead to Central European Summer Time, is observed from the last Sunday in March (02:00 CET) to the last Sunday in October (03:00 CEST).[2] Albania adopted CET in 1914.[3]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Albania is given the zone Europe/Tirane.[4]

c.c.*	coordinates*	TZ*	Comments	UTC offset	DST
AL	+4120+01950	Europe/Tirane		+01:00	+02:00

See also

• Time in Europe
• Time in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Time in Kosovo

References

1. Time in Albania. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
2. Albania at The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 2 May 2021.
3. Time Zone & Clock Changes in Tirana, Albania. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
4. Europe (2020 edition) at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 20 May 2021.

External links

• Current time in Albania at Time.is