What time is it in France?
18:44:09
Friday 13 November 2026
- Time zone UTC+01:00
- Next clock change: 28 March 2027
Daylight saving time in France
- Sunday 28 March 2027: at 02:00 it becomes 03:00 (clocks go forward by one hour).
- Sunday 31 October 2027: at 03:00 it becomes 02:00 (clocks go back by one hour).
Day and night around the world
- France
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Good to know about the time in France
Mainland France is on Central European Time: UTC+1 in winter, UTC+2 in summer. Clocks go forward one hour on the last Sunday in March and back on the last Sunday in October, at the same time as the rest of the European Union. Dates of the next clock changes
Until 1911, legal time was Paris mean time. The law of 9 March 1911 aligned it with Greenwich, defining it as “Paris mean time, retarded by nine minutes and twenty-one seconds”. During the Occupation, German time, one hour ahead, was imposed; France kept it after the Liberation. This is why legal time runs ahead of the sun: in Brest, the sun reaches its highest point at around 13:18 in winter and 14:18 in summer (mean solar noon).
With its overseas territories, France spans twelve time zones, more than any other country. These territories do not change their clocks, except Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which follows the North American calendar, so their difference with Paris changes by one hour twice a year. A few examples, at the moment: Martinique and Guadeloupe on UTC−4, French Guiana on UTC−3, Mayotte on UTC+3, Réunion on UTC+4, New Caledonia on UTC+11, Tahiti on UTC−10 and the Marquesas on UTC−9:30.
Time in the cities of France
- Paris
- Marseille
- Lyon
- Toulouse
- Nice
- Nantes
- Marne La Vallée
- Strasbourg
- Bordeaux
- Montpellier
- Lille
- Rennes
- Reims
- Le Havre
- Cergy-Pontoise
- Saint-Étienne
- Toulon
- Angers
- Dijon
- Grenoble
- Nîmes
- Clermont-Ferrand
- Aix-en-Provence
- Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
- Brest
- Le Mans
- Amiens
- Tours
- Limoges
- Villeurbanne
- Besançon
- Metz
- Orléans
- Rouen
- Mulhouse
- Montreuil
- Perpignan
- Caen
- Boulogne-Billancourt
- Nancy
- Argenteuil
- Roubaix
- Tourcoing
- Saint-Denis
- Avignon
- Asnières-sur-Seine
- Nanterre
- Poitiers
- Versailles
- Courbevoie
- Créteil
- Pau
- Colombes
- Vitry-sur-Seine
- Aulnay-sous-Bois
- La Rochelle
- Champigny-sur-Marne
- Rueil-Malmaison
- Antibes
- Saint-Maur-des-Fossés
- Cannes
- Calais
- Béziers
- Dunkirk
- Aubervilliers
- Mérignac
- Bourges
- Saint-Nazaire
- Colmar
- Valence
- Quimper
- Drancy
- Noisy-le-Grand
- Villeneuve-d'Ascq
- La Seyne-sur-Mer
- Levallois-Perret
- Chambéry
- Issy-les-Moulineaux
- Neuilly-sur-Seine
- Troyes
- Juan-les-Pins
- Antony
- La Roche-sur-Yon
- Lorient
- Sarcelles
- Pessac
- Ivry-sur-Seine
- Évreux
- Vénissieux
- Cergy
- Clichy
- Saint-Quentin
- Niort
- Belfort
- Ajaccio
- Vannes
- Sartrouville
- Maisons-Alfort
- Meaux
- Blois
- Brive-la-Gaillarde
- Arles
- Beauvais
- Châteauroux
- Cholet
- Fréjus
- Pantin
- Saint-Brieuc
- Montauban
- Charleville-Mézières
- Albi
- Tarbes
- Fontenay-sous-Bois
- Évry
- Clamart
- Châlons-en-Champagne
- Narbonne
- Saint-Malo
- Laval
- Hyères
- Angoulême
- Thonon-les-Bains
- Menton
Other places: Carcassonne, Annecy, Bondy, Le Blanc-Mesnil, Villejuif, Grasse, Sevran, Castres, Chalon-sur-Saône, Arras, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Chelles, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Saint-Herblain, Douai, Épinay-sur-Seine, Vincennes, Martigues, Bourg-en-Bresse, Bobigny, Montluçon, Aubagne, Valenciennes, Suresnes, Meudon, Bayonne, Istres, Thionville, Mantes-la-Jolie, Compiègne, Nevers, Chartres, Le Cannet, Wattrelos, Caluire-et-Cuire, Gap, Talence, Alès, Gennevilliers, Saint-Priest. Their pages are in French in the city directory.