Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 2020

Daylight Saving Time (DST) is often incorrectly referred to as “daylight savings time”. In some countries, it is also called “summer time”. When DST is not observed, it is called standard time, normal time or winter time.

This list displays a brief (but not complete) overview showing the countries and territories which observed DST during the first half of 2020.

Current country/territory names, rather than historic country names are displayed, so the list could contain countries that did not exist at the time.

Also, please see the page for the second half of 2020 or the overview over start and end times for 2020 sorted by country.

Date	Country	Local Time Change
Jan 12 Sun	Fiji (All locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Mar 8 Sun	Cuba (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 8 Sun	The Bahamas (All locations) Bermuda (All locations) Canada (All locations which are observing DST) Greenland (Thule Air Base) Haiti (All locations) Mexico (Some locations observing DST) Saint Pierre and Miquelon (All locations) Turks and Caicos Islands (All locations) United States (All locations which are observing DST)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 15 Sun	Antarctica (Troll Station)	1:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 21 Sat	Iran (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 22 Sun	Paraguay (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 27 Fri	Jordan (All locations) Syria (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 27 Fri	Israel (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 28 Sat	Palestine (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 28 Sat	Greenland (Most locations observing DST)	10:00 pm → 11:00 pm (Forward)
Mar 29 Sun	Greenland (Ittoqqortoormiit) Lebanon (All locations) Portugal (Some locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 29 Sun	Faroe Islands (All locations) Guernsey (All locations) Ireland (All locations) Isle of Man (All locations) Jersey (All locations) Portugal (Most locations) Spain (Some locations) United Kingdom (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Mar 29 Sun	Albania (All locations) Andorra (All locations) Austria (All locations) Belgium (All locations) Bosnia and Herzegovina (All locations) Croatia (All locations) Czechia (All locations) Denmark (All locations) France (All locations which are observing DST) Germany (All locations) Gibraltar (All locations) Hungary (All locations) Italy (All locations) Kosovo (All locations) Liechtenstein (All locations) Luxembourg (All locations) Malta (All locations) Moldova (All locations) Monaco (All locations) Montenegro (All locations) Netherlands (All locations which are observing DST) Norway (All locations) Poland (All locations) North Macedonia (All locations) San Marino (All locations) Serbia (All locations) Slovakia (All locations) Slovenia (All locations) Spain (Most locations) Sweden (All locations) Switzerland (All locations) Vatican City (Holy See) (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 29 Sun	Åland Islands (All locations) Bulgaria (All locations) Cyprus (All locations) Estonia (All locations) Finland (All locations) Greece (All locations) Latvia (All locations) Lithuania (All locations) Romania (All locations) Ukraine (All locations which are observing DST)	3:00 am → 4:00 am (Forward)
Apr 4 Sat	Chile (Easter Island)	10:00 pm → 9:00 pm (Back)
Apr 5 Sun	Chile (Most locations observing DST)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Apr 5 Sun	Australia (Lord Howe Island)	2:00 am → 1:30 am (Back)
Apr 5 Sun	Mexico (Most locations observing DST)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Apr 5 Sun	Antarctica (Some locations observing DST) Australia (Most locations observing DST) New Zealand (Most locations) Norfolk Island (All locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Apr 5 Sun	New Zealand (Some locations)	3:45 am → 2:45 am (Back)
Apr 5 Sun	Samoa (All locations)	4:00 am → 3:00 am (Back)
Apr 19 Sun	Morocco (Some locations) Western Sahara (Some locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
May 31 Sun	Morocco (Some locations) Western Sahara (Some locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)

Daylight Saving Time for other years
Yearly Overview	January–June	July–December
2018	first half of 2018	second half of 2018
2019	first half of 2019	second half of 2019
2020	first half of 2020	second half of 2020
2021	first half of 2021	second half of 2021
2022	first half of 2022	second half of 2022

Other years

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