What are the France time zones?
France has 12 time zones, UTC−10:00 to UTC+12:00, as of September 30, 2026. The table shows every zone at an example time, 12:00 PM in Metropolitan France: Paris; type any time or date.
- Time zones
- 12
At 12:00 PM on September 30, 2026 in Metropolitan France: Paris, France has 12 time zones and 13 UTC offsets in use.
- UTC offsets in use at that moment
- 13
- Tahiti (French Polynesia)
- 12:00 AM · Wed, Sep 30 · UTC−10:00 · no daylight saving
- Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia)
- 12:30 AM · Wed, Sep 30 · UTC−09:30 · no daylight saving
- Gambier Islands (French Polynesia)
- 1:00 AM · Wed, Sep 30 · UTC−09:00 · no daylight saving
- Guadeloupe, Saint-Martin, Saint-Barthélemy
- 6:00 AM AST · Wed, Sep 30 · UTC−04:00 · no daylight saving
- Martinique
- 6:00 AM AST · Wed, Sep 30 · UTC−04:00 · no daylight saving
- French Guiana
- 7:00 AM · Wed, Sep 30 · UTC−03:00 · no daylight saving
- Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
- 8:00 AM PMDT · Wed, Sep 30 · UTC−02:00 · daylight saving
- Metropolitan France: Paris
- 12:00 PM CEST · Wed, Sep 30 · UTC+02:00 · daylight saving
- Mayotte
- 1:00 PM · Wed, Sep 30 · UTC+03:00 · no daylight saving
- Réunion, Crozet Islands
- 2:00 PM · Wed, Sep 30 · UTC+04:00 · no daylight saving
- Kerguelen Islands
- 3:00 PM · Wed, Sep 30 · UTC+05:00 · no daylight saving
- Adélie Land (Antarctica)
- 8:00 PM · Wed, Sep 30 · UTC+10:00 · no daylight saving
- New Caledonia
- 9:00 PM · Wed, Sep 30 · UTC+11:00 · no daylight saving
- Wallis and Futuna
- 10:00 PM · Wed, Sep 30 · UTC+12:00 · no daylight saving
Answer for the example date Wednesday, September 30, 2026. It changes to today's date when the page loads.
Time zones: 12. At 12:00 PM on September 30, 2026 in Metropolitan France: Paris, France has 12 time zones and 13 UTC offsets in use.
How to calculate
Lists the time zones of France with the local time, abbreviation, UTC offset, and daylight saving in each, for any time and date.
Example with the default inputs (Time 12:00, In Metropolitan France: Paris, Date September 30, 2026) on the example date Wednesday, September 30, 2026: At 12:00 PM on September 30, 2026 in Metropolitan France: Paris, France has 12 time zones and 13 UTC offsets in use.
Method: For the typed time in the chosen zone, find the instant (UTC) it names, then show each listed zone’s clock at that instant with its UTC offset, from the browser’s IANA time zone data.
- The zones are IANA tzdata names from zone1970.tab (tzdata 2026a): Pacific/Tahiti, Pacific/Marquesas, Pacific/Gambier, America/Puerto_Rico, America/Martinique, America/Cayenne, America/Miquelon, Europe/Paris, Africa/Nairobi, Asia/Dubai, Indian/Maldives, Pacific/Port_Moresby, Pacific/Noumea, Pacific/Tarawa. The browser supplies each zone's offsets and daylight saving rules, so a rule change arrives with a browser update.
- “Time zones” counts the different standard offsets among the listed zones. A zone’s standard offset in a year is the lower of its offsets at 00:00 UTC on January 1 and July 1 of that UTC year.
- “UTC offsets in use” counts the different offsets the listed zones show at that moment.
- Each zone shows its local time, the abbreviation from the browser’s Unicode CLDR English names (left out when CLDR has none), the date as “Tue, Sep 29”, the offset as UTC+hh:mm or UTC−hh:mm, and “daylight saving” when the offset is ahead of the standard offset, “standard time” when the zone’s January 1 and July 1 offsets differ but it is on the standard offset, or “no daylight saving” when they are the same. Because the rule compares January 1 and July 1, a zone that moves its offset for good during a year (Cancún in 2015, Novosibirsk in 2016), or whose January 1 falls in Morocco’s Ramadan change (Casablanca in 2030 to 2033), shows the later offset as “daylight saving” for that year.
- A time that does not exist in the chosen zone (skipped when clocks spring forward) has no answer. A time that occurs twice (when clocks fall back) shows both moments, earlier first, where they differ.
- Dates from 2000 to 2040 work.
Worked examples
Each example is checked against the calculator on every build.
- Time 12:00, In Metropolitan France: Paris, Date 2026-01-15 gives Time zones 12, UTC offsets in use at that moment 12, Tahiti (French Polynesia) 1:00 AM · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC−10:00 · no daylight saving, Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) 1:30 AM · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC−09:30 · no daylight saving, Gambier Islands (French Polynesia) 2:00 AM · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC−09:00 · no daylight saving, Guadeloupe, Saint-Martin, Saint-Barthélemy 7:00 AM AST · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC−04:00 · no daylight saving, Martinique 7:00 AM AST · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC−04:00 · no daylight saving, French Guiana 8:00 AM · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC−03:00 · no daylight saving, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon 8:00 AM PMST · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC−03:00 · standard time, Metropolitan France: Paris 12:00 PM CET · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC+01:00 · standard time, Mayotte 2:00 PM · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC+03:00 · no daylight saving, Réunion, Crozet Islands 3:00 PM · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC+04:00 · no daylight saving, Kerguelen Islands 4:00 PM · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC+05:00 · no daylight saving, Adélie Land (Antarctica) 9:00 PM · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC+10:00 · no daylight saving, New Caledonia 10:00 PM · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC+11:00 · no daylight saving, Wallis and Futuna 11:00 PM · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC+12:00 · no daylight saving.Source: IANA Time Zone Database, tzdata 2026a (https://www.iana.org/time-zones)
- Time 12:00, In Metropolitan France: Paris, Date 2026-07-15 gives Time zones 12, UTC offsets in use at that moment 13, Tahiti (French Polynesia) 12:00 AM · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC−10:00 · no daylight saving, Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) 12:30 AM · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC−09:30 · no daylight saving, Gambier Islands (French Polynesia) 1:00 AM · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC−09:00 · no daylight saving, Guadeloupe, Saint-Martin, Saint-Barthélemy 6:00 AM AST · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC−04:00 · no daylight saving, Martinique 6:00 AM AST · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC−04:00 · no daylight saving, French Guiana 7:00 AM · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC−03:00 · no daylight saving, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon 8:00 AM PMDT · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC−02:00 · daylight saving, Metropolitan France: Paris 12:00 PM CEST · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC+02:00 · daylight saving, Mayotte 1:00 PM · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC+03:00 · no daylight saving, Réunion, Crozet Islands 2:00 PM · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC+04:00 · no daylight saving, Kerguelen Islands 3:00 PM · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC+05:00 · no daylight saving, Adélie Land (Antarctica) 8:00 PM · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC+10:00 · no daylight saving, New Caledonia 9:00 PM · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC+11:00 · no daylight saving, Wallis and Futuna 10:00 PM · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC+12:00 · no daylight saving.Source: IANA Time Zone Database, tzdata 2026a (https://www.iana.org/time-zones)
Other questions people ask
How many time zones does France have?
12 across its overseas territories, from UTC−10:00 in Tahiti to UTC+12:00 in Wallis and Futuna, more than any other country. Counts of 13 add Clipperton Island (UTC−08:00), which is uninhabited and has no IANA zone.
Which parts of France change their clocks?
Only metropolitan France (Central European Time, UTC+01:00, and UTC+02:00 in summer) and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. The other overseas territories keep one offset all year.
What time zone is Paris in?
Central European Time (CET, UTC+01:00), and Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00) from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October.