Time in the State of Palestine

Time in the Middle East

	UTC+02:00 UTC+03:00	Eastern European Time / Israel Standard Time / Eastern European Summer Time / Israel Summer Time
	UTC+03:00	Arabia Standard Time / Turkey Time
	UTC+03:30	Iran Standard Time
	UTC+04:00	Gulf Standard Time

▉▉▉ Standard time observed all year
▉ Daylight saving time observed

The time zones in the State of Palestine are Palestine Standard Time (PSST) (Arabic: توقيت فلسطين القياسي) (UTC+02:00) and Palestine Summer Time (PSDT) (Arabic: توقيت فلسطين الصيفي) (UTC+03:00).^[1][2] Palestine first observed Daylight Saving Time in 1940. Palestine observed DST for 62 years between 1940 and 2024. The previous time with no Daylight Saving Time was 1983.^[3] The Palestinian Government announces the dates for the start and end of summer time.^[4] In 2020, they announced the end of summer time on 19 October, only 5 days before the change.^[5]

West Bank settlements

The Israeli settlements on the West Bank adhere to Israel Standard Time, which switches to Israel Summer Time on a different date than Palestine switches to Palestine Summer Time. This creates a one-hour difference for a few days for different groups of people living in the same geographic area.^[6]

References

1. "Time Zone". Ministry of Telecom & Information Technology. Archived from the original on 23 April 2024.
2. Time in Palestine. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
3. "Daylight Saving Time 2024 in Palestine". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
4. "Daylight saving time to start in Palestine on April 20". WAFA. 4 April 2024. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
5. "Palestine to end summer time on Oct 24th". ICANN mailing list. 20 October 2020. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
6. "Two Time Zones for Two Peoples: What Happens When Israel Moves Clock, but Palestinians Don't". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 25 Mar 2023.