Eastern Time (EST) is 5 hours behind Central European Time (CET).

Here is every hour of the day in EST and the same moment in CET.

The green rows are the hours when both zones are inside 9 AM to 5 PM. The row marked Now is the hour it is in Eastern Time right now.

A team split between ET and Central Europe is at work together for 3 hours a day.

Taking 9 AM to 5 PM on each clock as the working day, both zones are at work from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST (2:00 PM to 5:00 PM CET).

A team spread across two time zones has fewer chances to notice someone drifting away. TeamPredict reads public LinkedIn signals to flag resignation risk early, wherever people work.

The gap between EST and CET moves between 5 hours and 6 hours during the year.

The United States and Europe change their clocks on different Sundays, so for a few weeks in spring and a week in autumn the gap is an hour different from the rest of the year.

These are the clock changes of both zones in 2026 and 2027.

EST stands for Eastern Time and CET for Central European Time on this page.

Eastern Time is EST (UTC−5) in winter and EDT (UTC−4) in summer. People write EST all year, and this page does too; the clock reads EDT right now. It moves its clocks forward at 2:00 AM on the second Sunday in March and back at 2:00 AM on the first Sunday in November.

Central European Time is CET (UTC+1) in winter and CEST (UTC+2) in summer, and this page follows Paris, which shares its clock with Berlin, Madrid and Rome. The clock reads CET right now. Europe moves its clocks forward on the last Sunday in March and back on the last Sunday in October.

These nearby time zone pairs show the time right now too.

• CET to EST
• EST to PST
• EST to CST
• EST to MST
• EST to IST
• EST to GMT
• EST to UTC

The time zone converter reads one moment on up to 12 clocks, the military time converter turns 24-hour times into AM and PM, and the time duration calculator measures the hours between two moments.