Indexed entity
Athens is the athens-GR record in Greece: country slug greece, city slug athens, ISO GR, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Athens.
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Live local time
Athens, Greece
01:41:35 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Europe/Athens
Quick answer
It is currently 01:41:35 PM (EEST, UTC+03:00) in Athens, Greece — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
20°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
29°C
18°C
Wed
30°C
19°C
Thu
30°C
18°C
In 74 days
Κοίμηση της Θεοτόκου (Assumption Day)
Sat, Aug 15, 2026
PublicIn 148 days
Το Όχι (Ochi Day)
Wed, Oct 28, 2026
PublicIn 206 days
Fri, Dec 25, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Euro
1 USD = 0.8624 EUR
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
06:03 AM
Sunset
08:42 PM
Day length
14h 39m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Athens, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:41 AM UTC.
Current local time
01:41:35 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
EEST
Europe/Athens · UTC+03:00
Next holiday
Assumption Day
Saturday, August 15, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Athens right now
Nearest airport
ATH
Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport · 20 km
Indexed airports
1
Curated airport references available for Greece
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Athens, Greece.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 13:41 GMT+3
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Athens is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+03:00
Zone label
GMT+3
London
11:41 AM / -2h
Dubai
02:41 PM / +1h
Schedule risk
Assumption Day on Saturday, August 15, 2026
Travel cue
ATH Spata-Artemida, 20 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:03 AM to 08:42 PM, with solar noon around 01:23 PM and total daylight of 14h 39m.
Mapped location
37.98°N, 23.73°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:41 AM / -2h
Good live-call window with Athens right now.
New York
06:41 AM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:41 AM / -10h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:41 PM / +1h
Good live-call window with Athens right now.
Singapore
06:41 PM / +5h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Athens.
ATH · Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport
Spata-Artemida
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Europe/Athens for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+03:00; seasonal offset, UTC+02:00 in January and UTC+03:00 in July.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Athens right now.
Check local interruptions
Assumption Day on Saturday, August 15, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: ATH Spata-Artemida, 20 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
Next detected clock change: October 25, 2026, moving back from 2026-10-25 03:59 (GMT+3) to 2026-10-25 03:00 (GMT+2).
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Athens has a detected clock-change edge. Re-check recurring meetings within two weeks of October 25, 2026, especially if the other city does not change clocks on the same weekend.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Athens.
Canonical route
/time/greece/athens/
Catalog identity
athens-GR · GR · Europe
Coordinate cell
37.98°N, 23.73°E · lat 37.984 · lon 23.728 · cell 3798:2373
Population record
664,046 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Europe/Athens · GMT+3 · UTC+03:00
January / July offsets
UTC+02:00 / UTC+03:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Piraeus, Greece · 9 km
Nearest world hub
London · 2,392 km
Closest airport references
ATH Spata-Artemida 20 km
Zone peer roster
Thessaloníki, Greece · Pátra, Greece · Piraeus, Greece
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Athens: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Athens is the athens-GR record in Greece: country slug greece, city slug athens, ISO GR, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Athens.
37.98°N, 23.73°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 37 and longitude band 23; exact decimal pair 37.98376, 23.72784.
Greece: official name Hellenic Republic; capital Athens; region Europe; subregion Southern Europe; country population 10,400,720; area 131,990 km²; languages Greek; currencies EUR euro. This is the country layer behind the Athens clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Greece: Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country of 10 million people on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. With nine regions and thousands of islands, it has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean. The Ionian Sea is west of the mainland, Albania northwest, and North Macedonia and Bulgaria north. Turkey is east both by land and the Aegean Sea. The capital, Athens, is the largest Greek city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras. Source: Wikipedia.
Piraeus [piraeus-GR, GR, Europe/Athens, 9 km]; Pátra [patra-GR, GR, Europe/Athens, 177 km]; İzmir [izmir-TR, TR, Europe/Istanbul, 302 km]; Thessaloníki [thessaloniki-GR, GR, Europe/Athens, 303 km]; Bitola [bitola-MK, MK, Europe/Skopje, 396 km]; Prilep [prilep-MK, MK, Europe/Skopje, 418 km]; Vlorë [vlore-AL, AL, Europe/Tirane, 458 km]; Elbasan [elbasan-AL, AL, Europe/Tirane, 468 km]
Athens is part of this indexed country cluster: Athens [athens-GR, Europe/Athens, pop 664,046]; Thessaloníki [thessaloniki-GR, Europe/Athens, pop 317,778]; Pátra [patra-GR, Europe/Athens, pop 168,034]; Piraeus [piraeus-GR, Europe/Athens, pop 163,688].
London 2,392 km; Dubai 3,287 km; New York 7,925 km; Singapore 9,048 km; Tokyo 9,504 km; São Paulo 10,027 km; Los Angeles 11,095 km; Sydney 15,327 km
ATH Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport in Spata-Artemida [GR, 20 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include ATH Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport in Spata-Artemida [GR].
Athens renders Jun 2, 2026 · 13:41 GMT+3; GMT+3 at UTC+03:00; January UTC+02:00; July UTC+03:00; next holiday Assumption Day on 2026-08-15.
This evidence pack is what keeps smaller city pages from reading like timezone templates: concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Athens.
Athens is a context-and-reference city; rank #1 of 4 retained Greece city pages. The route is /time/greece/athens/ and the city id is athens-GR.
Athens has 15 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Athens is pinned at 37.98°N, 23.73°E; Piraeus (9 km); London (2,392 km).
Europe/Athens resolves to seasonal offset split: UTC+02:00 in January and UTC+03:00 in July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Greece.
ATH Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (20 km) · Assumption Day (Saturday, August 15, 2026) · 1 country airport reference · 15 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Athens uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Athens: Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the eighth-largest urban area in the European Union (EU). The Municipality of Athens, which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 in 2021, within its official limits, and a land area of 38.96 square kilometres.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC+02:00 and summer UTC+03:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone Europe/Athens.
Athens is listed in the dataset snapshot as 3 hours ahead of UTC (offset +03:00). 2 hours ahead of London, 6 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 23.73°, Athens's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 25 minutes after civil 12:00 under the sampled +03:00 civil offset; during the alternate seasonal offset this shifts by about one hour on the clock — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Athens sits at 37.98°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 14 hours 38 minutes on the June solstice and about 9 hours 22 minutes on the December solstice.
Athens sits at 37.98°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 14 hours 38 minutes on the June solstice and about 9 hours 22 minutes on the December solstice.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Jun 17 (14h 48m)
Shortest day
Dec 21 (9h 31m)
Year-round average
12h 12m
Annual swing
5h 17m
See the full daylight curve for Athens at /sun/athens/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Athens local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Athens |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 16:00 - 00:00 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 06:30 - 14:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 04:00 - 12:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 04:00 - 12:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 03:00 - 11:00 |
Public holidays in 2026
15
Capital status
National capital of Greece
Reference fields include Athens's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 01:41:35 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Athens (UTC+03:00, EEST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:03 AM to 08:42 PM
Day length 14h 39m · Solar noon 01:23 PM
Next country holiday
Assumption Day
Saturday, August 15, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Athens local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Xbox Games Showcase 2026
keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
Code with Claude Tokyo 2026
keynoteWednesday, June 10, 2026
8 days to go
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Gamescom 2026
keynoteWednesday, August 26, 2026
85 days to go
IFA Berlin 2026
keynoteFriday, September 4, 2026
94 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
Population
664K
Coordinates
37.98, 23.73
Timezone
Europe/Athens
Indexed airports
1
Capital
Athens
Languages
Greek
Currency
EUR (€)
Country area
131,990 km²
Athens, Greece (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Europe/Athens (EEST, UTC+03:00); population ~664K.
Coordinates: 37.98°N, 23.73°E. Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, ~4216 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:03 AM and sets around 08:42 PM in Athens — about 14h 39m of daylight. Greece observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Piraeus (9 km from Athens) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Greece.
Next national holiday: Assumption Day, 2026-08-15.
Athens is indexed as a Europe city in the GR country record, using Europe/Athens as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/greece/athens/.
Location context: 37.98°N, 23.73°E; population 664,046; nearest indexed city Piraeus is about 9 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 2,392 km away.
Country planning context: capital Athens; subregion Southern Europe; languages Greek; currency EUR (€); area 131,990 km²; 1 curated airport references; next holiday Assumption Day on 2026-08-15.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC+02:00 and summer UTC+03:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone Europe/Athens.
Athens is listed in the dataset snapshot as 3 hours ahead of UTC (offset +03:00). 2 hours ahead of London, 6 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 23.73°, Athens's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 25 minutes after civil 12:00 under the sampled +03:00 civil offset; during the alternate seasonal offset this shifts by about one hour on the clock — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Athens sits at 37.98°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 14 hours 38 minutes on the June solstice and about 9 hours 22 minutes on the December solstice.
Sizeable city with about 664 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Athens: Thessaloníki (same time), San Francisco (−10h), Los Angeles (−10h), Tokyo (+6h), New York City (−7h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
greece
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
EEST
IANA Zone
Europe/Athens
UTC Offset
UTC+03:00
DST Status
Observing DST
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+03:00
Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan, Syria
Other cities in this timezone
London
-2h
New York
-7h
Los Angeles
-10h
Dubai
+1h
Singapore
+5h
Tokyo
+6h
Sydney
+7h
São Paulo
-6h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Athens.
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City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Athens: closest hubs London (~2,392 km), Dubai (~3,287 km), New York (~7,925 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~15,327 km).
Athens sits inside Greece — the Southern Europe subregion, capital Athens, languages Greek, currency EUR (€).
Closest indexed cities to Athens: Piraeus (9 km), Pátra (177 km), İzmir (302 km), Thessaloníki (303 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Athens: Assumption Day, Ochi Day, Christmas Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Greece.
Closest curated airport references from Athens: ATH Spata-Artemida (20 km).
Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International AirportATH
Spata-Artemida · 20 km from Athens
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 47m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
2 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:41 AM | -2h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:41 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:41 AM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:41 PM | +1h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:41 PM | +5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:41 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:41 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:41 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
Athens is in the Europe/Athens timezone (EEST), with a UTC offset of +03:00.
Athens uses seasonal daylight saving rules in Europe/Athens. The current offset is UTC+03:00; January resolves to UTC+02:00 and July resolves to UTC+03:00.
The current UTC offset for Athens is UTC+03:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Athens, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 13:41 GMT+3. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Athens sits at 37.98°N, 23.73°E in Greece, with about 664K residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Athens is London, about 2,392 km away as the crow flies.
Piraeus is the closest indexed city, roughly 9 km from Athens.
Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH) is the closest curated airport reference, about 20 km from Athens.
Assumption Day is the next upcoming holiday in Greece, on Saturday, August 15, 2026.
Athens uses euro (EUR, symbol €) as the local currency of Greece.
The longest day of 2026 in Athens falls on Jun 17 with about 14h 48m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 21 with 9h 31m; the year-round average is 12h 12m.
In Athens local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 16:00-00:00 (next day); London 11:00-19:00; Frankfurt 10:00-18:00; Dubai 08:00-16:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.