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9–17 in Athens vs UTC
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- Πεντηκοστή31 May 2026
- Αγίου Πνεύματος1 Jun 2026
- Κοίμηση της Θεοτόκου15 Aug 2026
- Επέτειος του Όχι28 Oct 2026
- Χριστούγεννα25 Dec 2026
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About Athens
Home to roughly 664,046 residents, Athens is a notable city in Greece. Its terrain rests around 70 m of elevation.
Athens keeps time on the Europe/Athens IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the temperate belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (37.98°).
Locally, prices are quoted in EUR and the international dialing code is +30. Beyond the live clock, every datapoint on this page — sun events, holidays, time-zone offsets — is also available as machine-readable JSON, ready for agents and integrations.
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Questions about time in Athens
The current local time in Athens, Greece is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Athens uses the IANA time zone Europe/Athens, currently UTC+3.
Whether Athens observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Europe/Athens) is the source of truth.
Athens is currently 7 hours ahead of New York.
Athens is currently 2 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Athens are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (37.9838, 23.7275).
Greece uses the EUR currency and the +30 international dialing code.
Athens sits at 37.9838° N, 23.7275° E, 70 m above sea level, in Greece.