Time in Palestine

The time zones in Palestine are Palestine Standard Time and Palestine Summer Time . Palestine first observed Daylight Saving Time in 1940. Palestine observed DST for 63 years between 1940 and 2025.
The previous time with no Daylight Saving Time was 1983. The Palestinian Government announces the dates for the start and end of summer time. In 2020, they announced the end of summer time on 19 October, only 5 days before the change.

Israeli 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.

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Palestine is given two zone identifiers in the file zone.tab: Asia/Gaza serving the Gaza Strip; and Asia/Hebron serving West Bank. These zones use EET and EEST for their time zone abbreviations.