Warsaw

Poland • Central European Time

Time Zone

Warsaw uses Central European Time (CET / CEST), currently running at UTC+1 (winter) / UTC+2 (summer). Clocks advance to CEST in late March and return to CET in late October.

Business & Commerce

Warsaw, Poland's capital, operates on Central European Time (CET, UTC+1) in winter and Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+2) from late March through late October, sharing its clock with Berlin, Paris, and Rome. Warsaw has grown into one of Europe's largest nearshore technology and business-services hubs, with U.S. and Western European companies routing software development, IT support, and finance operations there to combine EU time-zone overlap with lower operating costs than Western Europe. Poland's economy is the largest in Central and Eastern Europe, and the Warsaw Stock Exchange is the region's biggest by market capitalization. At CET/CEST, Warsaw is one hour ahead of London and typically six hours ahead of New York.