About Berlin time
Berlin runs on Central European Time and is Europe’s largest city by population within its core, coordinating much of Germany’s industrial and startup calendar.
Germany was the first country to introduce daylight saving, in 1916, to conserve coal during World War I. Berlin’s punctuality is proverbial — “fünf Minuten vor der Zeit ist des Deutschen Pünktlichkeit” (five minutes early is German punctuality). Regional public holidays vary by Bundesland, so a date that is a working day in Berlin may be a holiday in Bavaria.
Birthplace of modern DST (1916)State-by-state holidaysCentral European rail timing