Time in Helsinki now:
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Helsinki is the same time as you
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Time difference from Helsinki
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9–17 in Helsinki vs UTC
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Upcoming public holidays
- Isänpäivä8 Nov 2026
- Itsenäisyyspäivä6 Dec 2026
- Jouluaatto24 Dec 2026
- Joulupäivä25 Dec 2026
- 2. joulupäivä26 Dec 2026
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About Helsinki
Home to roughly 656,229 residents, Helsinki is a substantial regional city in Finland. The city sits at 26 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
For computers and clocks, Helsinki is anchored to the Europe/Helsinki time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. Sun behaviour here follows the subarctic pattern of the northern hemisphere, with the steepest seasonal day-length swings around the equinoxes.
Visitors will find prices listed in EUR; phones reach Finland via the +358 country code. This page exposes Helsinki's exact local time alongside sunrise, sunset, public holidays, and a structured-data feed at the JSON link below — useful for spreadsheets, scheduling tools, and AI assistants alike.
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Questions about time in Helsinki
The current local time in Helsinki, Finland is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Helsinki uses the IANA time zone Europe/Helsinki, currently UTC+2.
Whether Helsinki observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Europe/Helsinki) is the source of truth.
Helsinki is currently 7 hours ahead of New York.
Helsinki is currently 2 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Helsinki are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (60.1699, 24.9384).
Finland uses the EUR currency and the +358 international dialing code.
Helsinki sits at 60.1699° N, 24.9384° E, 26 m above sea level, in Finland.