Helsinki

UTC+3

Finland · EEST

Summer

18:11:26Live

Fri, 11 Sept 2026

00:00↑ 04:00↓ 22:4824:00

Sunrise

04:00

Sunset

22:48

Daylight

18.8hrs

Population

1.3M

Season

Summer

Next full moon

14 Jul

Buck Moon

Timezone Guide

Helsinki, Finland runs on UTC+3. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. There is a 7-hour difference between Helsinki and New York. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 16:00–18:00 in Helsinki lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. There is a 2-hour difference between Helsinki and London. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 7 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 11:00–18:00 in Helsinki lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. There is a 6-hour difference between Helsinki and Tokyo. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–12:00 in Helsinki lines up with 15:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Moscow, Athens, Istanbul. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Helsinki.

Practical Info

Helsinki (Finland) is home to roughly 1.3M people. Today brings about 18.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 04:00, sunset at 22:48. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 60° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.

Flag

Finland

Capital

Helsinki 👑

Continent

Europe

Time Zone

EEST · Europe/Helsinki

Coordinates

60.17°N, 24.94°E

Currency

EUR (€)

Calling Code

+358

Driving Side

Right

Hemisphere

Northern

Language

Finnish, Swedish

Measurement System

Metric

Did You Know?

The World's Coffee Champion Under the Midnight Sun

1. Finns drink more coffee than any other nation on Earth.

At 12.0 kilograms per person every year, Finland leads global coffee consumption by a wide margin. In Helsinki, coffee is so deeply ingrained into daily life that Finnish labour law is the only one in the world that explicitly mandates coffee breaks (kahvitauko) for workers.

2. The land of extreme daylight swings.

At 60° north, Helsinki sits on the Gulf of Finland. On the summer solstice in June, the sun rises before 4:00 AM and sets after 10:45 PM, leaving the sky in a perpetual golden twilight called the 'White Nights'. In December, the sun barely clears the horizon for less than six hours a day.

3. The clock: Helsinki observes UTC+2 (EET) in winter and shifts to UTC+3 (EEST) in summer, perfectly synchronizing with Eastern European neighbours.

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