Current time in Athens

Greece · UTC+2/UTC+3

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Europe/Athens

UTC offset

UTC+2/UTC+3

Daylight Saving

Yes — observed

Time zone ID

Europe/Athens

Business hours

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EET (Monday–Friday)

About Athens's time zone

Athens follows Eastern European Time (EET, UTC+2) in winter and EEST (UTC+3) in summer from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October. Greece is 2 hours ahead of London in winter and 3 hours in summer — creating a useful gap for European business where Athens is already mid-morning when London opens. Athens is the easternmost major EU capital in terms of time zone, sharing EET with Finland, the Baltics, Ukraine, and Romania.

Best time to call Athens

Calling from	Recommended window
London	7:00 AM – 4:00 PM GMT
New York	2:00 AM – 11:00 AM ET
Dubai	11:00 AM – 8:00 PM GST
Singapore	3:00 PM – 12:00 AM SGT

Did you know? Ancient Greece had a profound influence on how the Western world thinks about time. The Greek philosopher Aristotle defined time as 'the measurement of motion according to before and after' — a concept that remained dominant for 2,000 years until Einstein's theory of relativity showed that time itself is relative and can dilate depending on gravity and velocity.

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