The tourist who wants to travel to Italy and in particular to Naples must take into consideration that the time zone of the city is equal to the UTC + 1 in the months when the solar time is in force, while it is equivalent to UTC + 2 when daylight saving time comes into effect.
What is UTC time
UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), which coincides with GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), is the reference time zone from which all other time zones in the world are calculated and is equal to that of Greenwich in England. Therefore the Italian one is always to be calculated one hour ahead of the latter. All European countries located in the CET (Central European Time) zone have the same time zone as the Italian one.
The countries that generally join the CET include several European nations:
- Albania
- Andorra
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark (except the Faroe Islands and Greenland)
- France (excluding overseas departments)
- Germany
- Hungary
- Italy
- Kosovo
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- Northern Macedonia
- Norway (except Jan Mayen Island and the Svalbard Archipelago)
- Poland
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain (excluding the Canary Islands, which follow WET/WEST)
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Vatican City
How it works and when summer time is switched on and off in Italy
In Italy, summer time is set every year at night between Saturday and the last Sunday of March at 2 in the morning: this means that the clock hands must be moved forward one hour. Daylight saving time remains in force until the last Sunday of October, a day in which we return to solar time by moving the hands back one hour at 3 in the morning.
If you are a tourist, this is important information to keep in mind since not all countries in the world use summer time!
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