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.
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, Dar es Salaam, Mogadishu
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean
Bassas da India, Europa Island and Juan de Nova Island
Some bases in Antarctica. See also Time in Antarctica.
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:
Most of European Russia, including Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Krasnodar, 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.
North Caucasian Federal District
Except Samara Oblast, Saratov Oblast, Udmurtia, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Bashkortostan, Orenburg Oblast and Perm Krai
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
Georgia (while Georgia remains within UTC+04:00, its two breakaway regions have opted to use UTC+03:00) this includes:
As daylight saving time (Northern Hemisphere summer only)
Principal cities: Kyiv, Bucharest, Athens, Jerusalem, Sofia, Cairo
Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine
Discrepancies between official UTC+03:00 and geographical UTC+03:00