Time in Athens, Greece | Athens Now
Saturday, 7 November 2026
EET (UTC+02:00)
Time zone information for Athens
UTC +2
Eastern European Time (EET) , currently 5 hours behind Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh
▪Part of the year: UTC +3 / Eastern European Summer Time (EEST)
▪Time in Athens is 5 hours behind Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh when on standard time, and 4 hours behind Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh when on daylight saving time.
▪The IANA time zone identifier for Athens is
Europe/Athens.October25Sunday2026
Latest change: Standard time began
- ▪Switched to UTC +2 / Eastern European Standard Time (EET).
- ▪The time was set backward one hour from 04:00 to 03:00 local time.
March28Sunday2027
Next change: Daylight saving time begins
- ▪Switch to UTC +3 / Eastern European Summer Time (EEST).
- ▪The time will be set forward one hour from 03:00 to 04:00 local time.
Sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time for Athens
- ▪Sunrise: 06:56
- ▪Sunset: 17:20
- ▪Day length: 10h 23m
- ▪Solar noon: 12:08
- ▪Current time in Athens is currently 8 minutes ahead of solar time.
Athens on map
- ▪Location: Attica, Greece
- ▪Latitude: 37,98. Longitude: 23,73
- ▪Population: 664,046
- ▪Elevation: 70 m
Time difference
from Athens
Sun cycle
Sunrise 06:56
Solar noon 12:08Sunset 17:20
Time zone & DST
- IANA identifier
Europe/Athens- Abbreviation
- EET
- UTC offset
- UTC+02:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in effect
- DST Starts
- 28 Mar 2027in 140 days, 22 hours
- Current Unix epoch
- 1794018331
Sun & astronomy
- Sunrise
- 06:56
- Sunset
- 17:20
- Solar noon
- 12:08
- Day length
- 10h 23m
- Night length
- 13h 36m
- Civil twilight
- 06:29 – 17:47
Geography & country
- Country
- Greece
- Region / State
- Attica
- Coordinates
- 37.984°, 23.728°
- Elevation
- 70 m
- Population
- 664,046
- Classification
- Capital city
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