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Heraklion

UTC+3

Greece · EEST

Summer
03:44:12Live

Tue, 15 Sept 2026

00:00↑ 06:06↓ 20:3624:00
Sunrise
06:06
Sunset
20:36
Daylight
14.5hrs
Population
180K
Season
Summer
Next full moon
14 Jul
Buck Moon

Timezone Guide

Heraklion, Greece runs on UTC+3. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 26 Oct. There is a 7-hour difference between Heraklion 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 Heraklion lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. There is a 2-hour difference between Heraklion 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 Heraklion lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. There is a 6-hour difference between Heraklion 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 Heraklion 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 Heraklion.

Practical Info

Heraklion (Greece) is home to roughly 180K people. Today brings about 14.5 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:06, sunset at 20:36. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+2 in winter, UTC+3 in summer. Next change: 26 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 35° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.

Flag

Greece

Greece

Capital

Athens

Continent

Europe

Time Zone

EEST · Europe/Athens

Coordinates

35.34°N, 25.13°E

Currency

EUR (€)

Calling Code

+30

Driving Side

Right

Hemisphere

Northern

Language

Greek

Measurement System

Metric

Did You Know?

A Palace With 1,300 Rooms

Knossos, outside Heraklion, covers about 14,000 square metres and had over a thousand interlinked rooms — complex enough that it is widely thought to be the origin of the labyrinth myth. It was occupied from around 1900 BC.

The clock: Heraklion keeps UTC+2. The Minoan writing system Linear A, found here, has never been deciphered.

Annual Daylight

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Working Hours

9h overlap

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