What time is it in Paris?

Paris is on Central European Time, one hour ahead of London and six ahead of New York for most of the year. France has the most time zones of any country when its overseas territories are counted — twelve in total — but mainland France follows a single CET clock with summer time from late March to late October.

Time zone facts

Sunrise and sunset today

Good to know

• Paris and London change clocks on the same Sunday, so the one-hour gap between them never breaks.
• France moved permanently to CET during the Second World War and kept it afterwards, despite sitting on Greenwich's meridian band.
• Midsummer sunset in Paris is close to 10pm local time.

Planning a call?

Use the time zone converter to line up a specific hour, the world clock to watch several cities at once, or a countdown timer to track how long until the call starts.