Time change by country

The short version

Daylight Saving Time is far less universal than it looks from Europe or North America. Of the countries listed here, 39 still change their clocks; the rest have either abolished the practice or never adopted it.

The trend is one-directional. Russia stopped in 2014, Turkey in 2016, Brazil in 2019 and Mexico in 2022. No country has adopted DST in recent years.

Americas

Europe

Asia

Africa

Middle East

Oceania

A note on the dates

Each region follows its own rule, and they rarely line up. The United States changes on the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November; the EU on the last Sunday of March and October; Australia and New Zealand on the opposite cycle because their seasons are reversed. Egypt and Israel key their changes to Fridays, and Chile changes at midnight rather than in the small hours.

Morocco is the odd one out: it stays on UTC+1 permanently but puts the clocks back for Ramadan and forward again afterwards, so its two annual changes move about eleven days earlier each year.