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Time in Monaco

time zones used in Monaco

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ106899293 ↗
Source-derived summary

In Monaco, the standard time is Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00). Daylight saving time is observed from the last Sunday in March (02:00 CET) to the last Sunday in October (03:00 CEST). This is shared with several other EU member states.

History

Monaco followed "Paris Mean Time" from 28 March 1911 until after World War II, when Monaco adopted CET.

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Monaco is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Europe/Monaco.

Editorial summary

“Time in Monaco” enters the record as time zones used in Monaco. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Time, Monaco and time can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1911—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Time, Monaco and time.
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Why this record matters

“Time in Monaco” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Time, Monaco and time provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q106899293. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1911.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Time in Monaco” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.