# UTC+03:00

UTC+03:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +03:00. In areas using this time offset, the time is three hours ahead of the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Following the ISO 8601 standard, a time with this offset would be written as, for example, 2019-02-08T23:36:06+03:00.

## As standard time (year-round)

Principal cities: Istanbul, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Doha, Riyadh, Baghdad, Nairobi, Dire Dawa, Addis Ababa, Manama, Sanaa, Aden, Minsk, Kuwait City, Asmara, Antananarivo, Kampala, Amman, Damascus

### Africa
#### East Africa

* Comoros
* Djibouti
* Eritrea
* Ethiopia
* France
** French Southern and Antarctic Lands
*** Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean
**** Bassas da India, Europa Island and Juan de Nova Island
** Mayotte
* Kenya
* Madagascar
* Somalia
* Somaliland
* South Africa
** Prince Edward Islands
* Tanzania
* Uganda

### Antarctica

* Some bases in Antarctica. See also Time in Antarctica.
** Japan
*** Showa Station

### Asia
#### Arabia Standard Time

Arabia Standard Time, or AST (indicated by KSA on some Arabic TV stations), is used by some of the countries in the Middle East. As this time zone is predominantly in the equatorial region, there is no significant change in day length throughout the year, so daylight saving time is not observed. Between 1982 and 2007, Iraq observed Arabia Daylight Time (UTC+04:00) but the government abolished DST in March 2008.
Arabia Standard Time is used by the following countries:
* Bahrain
* Iraq
* Jordan
* Kuwait
* Qatar
* Saudi Arabia
* Syria
* Yemen

### Europe

Most of European Russia, including Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Novaya Zemlya, Franz Josef Land. From October 26, 2014 Moscow and most other parts of European Russia started using UTC+03:00 again, year-round. Also on September 7, 2016, Turkey started using UTC+03:00 year-round. Besides the names mentioned above, the name "Eastern Europe Forward Time"' (EEFT) is sometimes used.
* Belarus
* Russia – Moscow Time
** Central Federal District
** North Caucasian Federal District
** Northwestern Federal District
*** Except Kaliningrad Oblast
** Southern Federal District
*** Except Astrakhan Oblast
** Volga Federal District
*** Except Samara Oblast, Saratov Oblast, Udmurtia, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Bashkortostan, Orenburg Oblast and Perm Krai
* Turkey – Time in Turkey
* Ukraine
** Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine - Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol, Luhansk People's Republic, part of Donetsk People's Republic, part of Kherson Oblast and part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast

#### Caucasus region

* Georgia (while Georgia remains within UTC+04:00, its two breakaway regions have opted to use UTC+03:00) this includes:
** Abkhazia
** South Ossetia

## As daylight saving time (Northern Hemisphere summer only)

Principal cities: Kyiv, Bucharest, Athens, Jerusalem, Sofia, Cairo

### Europe

* Bulgaria
* Cyprus
* Estonia
* Finland
** Åland
* Greece
* Latvia
* Lithuania
* Moldova
** Transnistria
* Romania
* Ukraine
** Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine
* United Kingdom
** Akrotiri and Dhekelia

### Asia

* Israel
* Lebanon

### Africa

* Egypt

## Discrepancies between official UTC+03:00 and geographical UTC+03:00
### Areas in UTC+03:00 longitudes using other time zones

Using UTC+04:00:
* Caucasus region:
** Georgia, excluding Abkhazia and South Ossetia
** Armenia
** Azerbaijan
* Russia, with parts of its territories:
** Astrakhan, Samara, Saratov and Ulyanovsk (with an exception of the very east)
** Western half of Udmurtia
* United Arab Emirates
** The westernmost region of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi
* Seychelles
** Aldabra Group
*** Cosmoledo Atoll
** Farquhar Group
* French Southern and Antarctic Lands
** Crozet Islands
Using UTC+03:30:
* Iran
** The western part, including Tehran
Using UTC+02:00:
* Ukraine (standard time)
** The easternmost part, including Luhansk (the territories under Ukrainian control)
* Sudan
** The very easternmost part in the country
* Mozambique
** Most of the northeast, including Montepuez and Nampula

### Areas outside UTC+03:00 longitudes using UTC+03:00 time
#### Areas between 67°30′ E and 82°30′ E ("physical" UTC+05:00)

* Russia
** The very east of Severny Island with 69°2' E as the easternmost point

#### Areas between 52°30' E and 67°30' E ("physical" UTC+04:00)

* Yemen
** Socotra, the largest island in the Socotra Archipelago
** The very easternmost part of Al-Mahrah
* Saudi Arabia
** The easternmost part of Sharqiyah
* Russia
** Most of Franz Josef Land, Yuzhny Island, and most of Severny Island (with an exception of the very east)
** Some parts of the Russian mainland (Komi Republic, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, east of Kirov Oblast and Tatarstan)

#### Areas between 22°30' E and 37°30' E ("physical" UTC+02:00)

* Tanzania
** The western part, including Mwanza and Mbeya
* Uganda
* Kenya
** The western part, including nation's capital Nairobi
* Ethiopia
** The western part, including Nekemte and Jimma
* Saudi Arabia
** The northwesternmost part, including Tabuk
* Turkey
** Most parts of the country, including Istanbul and nation's capital Ankara
* Ukraine
** Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine
* Belarus
* Russia
** The western part, including Saint Petersburg and half of Moscow