UTC+00:00

As daylight saving time (Northern Hemisphere summer)

Europe

Arctic Ocean

• Greenland
  • Ittoqqortoormiit and surrounding area
• Portugal
  • Azores islands

As standard time (year-round)

Principal cities: Reykjavík, Accra, Bamako, Dakar, Abidjan, Conakry, Ouagadougou, São Tomé, Bissau, Monrovia, Bamako, Nouakchott, Freetown, Lomé, El Aaiún (Laayoune), Tifariti, Tindouf

Africa

West Africa

Greenwich Mean Time

• Burkina Faso
• Ivory Coast
• The Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Liberia
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (disputed territory)
• São Tomé and Príncipe (since 2018)
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Togo

Europe (and possessions)

Atlantic islands

• Greenland
  • Danmarkshavn and surrounding area
• Iceland
• United Kingdom
  • Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
    • Saint Helena
    • Ascension Island
    • Tristan da Cunha

Antarctica

Some bases in Antarctica.

• Norway
  • Troll Station

Notes:

1. The westernmost point where UTC with no DST is applied is Bjargtangar, at the northwest peninsula of Iceland (24°32′ W). Time used there is 1 hour and 38 minutes ahead of physical time. This is the greatest deviation from physical time for UTC+00:00 with no DST.

Discrepancies between use of UTC+00:00 as standard time rather than local solar time

Since legal, political, social and economic criteria, in addition to physical or geographical criteria, are used in the drawing of time zones, actual time zones do not precisely adhere to meridian lines. The UTC+00:00 time zone, were it determined purely by longitude, would consist of the area between meridians 7°30′W and 7°30′E. However, in much of Western and Central Europe, despite lying between those two meridians, UTC+01:00 is used; similarly, there are European areas that use UTC, even though their physical time zone is UTC−01:00 (e.g. most of Portugal), or UTC−02:00 (the westernmost part of Iceland). Because the UTC+00:00 time zone in Europe is at its western edge, Lowestoft in the United Kingdom, at only 1°45′E, is the easternmost settlement in Europe in which UTC+00:00 is applied.

Countries and areas west of 22°30′W ("physical" UTC−02:00) that use UTC+00:00

• The westernmost part of Iceland, including the northwest peninsula (the Westfjords) and its main town of Ísafjörður, which is west of 22°30′W, uses UTC+00:00. Bjargtangar, Iceland is the westernmost point in which UTC is applied.

Countries and areas west of 7°30′W ("physical" UTC−01:00) that use UTC+00:00

In Europe

• Canary Islands (Spain)
• Most of Portugal, including
  Bragança and Guarda, lies east of 7°30′W.) Madeira
  , at 17°W even further west, also employs UTC+00:00.
• The western half of Ireland, including the cities of Cork, Limerick, and Galway
• Westernmost tip of Northern Ireland, including the county town of County Fermanagh, Enniskillen
• Extreme westerly portion of the Outer Hebrides, in the west of Scotland; for instance, Vatersay, an inhabited island and the westernmost settlement of Great Britain, lies at 7°54′W. If uninhabited islands or rocks are taken into account St Kilda, west of the Outer Hebrides, at 8°58′W, and Rockall, at 13°41′W, should be included.
• Westernmost island of the Faroe Islands (autonomous region of Denmark), Mykines
• Most of Iceland, including Reykjavík
• Northeastern part of Greenland, including Danmarkshavn

In Africa

• Liberia
• Sierra Leone
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Senegal
• The Gambia
• Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (disputed territory)
• Most of Mauritania
• Southwesternmost part of Mali
• The very westernmost part of Ivory Coast

Countries that use UTC+01:00 as the basis for standard time although local solar time would suggest UTC+00:00

In Europe

• Spain (except for the Canary Islands, which use UTC+00:00). Much of
  Franco regime was unofficially allied) included in its 5th article a provision for its future phase out,^[4] which never took place. Due to this political decision Spain is two hours ahead of its local mean time during the summer, one hour ahead in winter.^[5]
• Andorra
• Belgium
• Most of France, including the cities of
  Lorraine and Provence
  are east of 7°30′E ("physical" UTC+1).
• Ireland (
  Irish Standard Time is used in summer,^[6] GMT in winter:^[7] this is the reverse of the usual convention, but provides the same end results. See Time in the Republic of Ireland
  ).
• Luxembourg
• Monaco
• Netherlands
• Gibraltar (United Kingdom)
• The very westernmost part of Germany
• Westernmost part of Switzerland
• The very northwesternmost part of Italy
• Bouvet Island and southwesternmost part of Norway

In Africa

• Benin
• Annobón Island (Equatorial Guinea)
• Western part of Niger
• Western part of Nigeria, including Lagos
• Most of Algeria, including Algiers
• Northeastern part of Morocco. Morocco normally uses UTC+01:00 but, in 2019, the country adopted UTC+00:00 during the month of Ramadan.^[8]

See also

• Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the basis for the world's civil time.

References

External links

• Media related to UTC±00:00 at Wikimedia Commons