Current time in Paris

About time in Paris

Paris keeps Central European Time, an hour ahead of London despite sitting only slightly east of it. France abstained from the 1884 conference that made Greenwich the prime meridian and kept Paris time as its legal reference for decades afterwards. The whole EU changes clocks at the same instant, so Paris and Berlin never drift apart.

Planning a call with Paris? The World Time tool puts it side by side with your other cities and highlights the hours when everyone's working day actually overlaps. For the rules behind these offsets, see time zones and UTC explained and daylight saving time.