| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −2h | |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −1h | |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +1h | Becomes +2h on 25 Oct |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +6h | Becomes +7h on 25 Oct |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +7h | Becomes +8h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −7h | Becomes −6h on 24 Oct |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −10h | Becomes −9h on 24 Oct |
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: 25 Oct. The time difference between Heraklion and New York is 7 hours. 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. The time difference between Heraklion and London is 2 hours. 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. The time difference between Heraklion and Tokyo is 6 hours. 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 Athens, Cairo, Beirut. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Heraklion.
Heraklion (Greece) is home to roughly 180K people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:13, sunset at 19:05. 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 35° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Greece
Capital
Athens
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+3 · 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?
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.
Heraklion lies at 25.1°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 4.9° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 19 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:19 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 79 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:19.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 33m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 46m. The swing between them is 4h 47m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Heraklion the sun comes up earliest on 14 June at 06:04, while the latest sunset waits until 30 June at 20:38. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Heraklion that civil twilight runs about 25 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 30 minutes at the solstice.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Heraklion, Greece is Europe/Athens with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Heraklion has an estimated population of 180K and is located at coordinates 35.34°N, 25.13°E.
Heraklion gets 14h 33m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 46m on its shortest, averaging 12h 11m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Heraklion falls at about 12:19 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 4.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Palace With Over a Thousand 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.