| 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 |
Patras, 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 Patras 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 Patras lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Patras 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 Patras lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Patras 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 Patras 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 Patras.
Patras (Greece) is home to roughly 175K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:27, sunset at 19:18. 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 38° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Greece
Capital
Athens
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Europe/Athens
Coordinates
38.25°N, 21.73°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+30
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Greek
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Patras Carnival has been held since 1829, which makes it the longest-running carnival in Greece and among the largest in Europe. Its treasure hunt game involves tens of thousands of participants.
The clock: Patras keeps UTC+2. The Rio–Antirrio bridge nearby, opened in 2004, is one of the longest cable-stayed bridges in the world and is built to survive both earthquakes and the seabed moving.
Patras lies at 21.7°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 8.3° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 33 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:33 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 93 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:33.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 50m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 30m. The swing between them is 5h 20m. 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 Patras the sun comes up earliest on 14 June at 06:09, while the latest sunset waits until 29 June at 21:00. 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 Patras that civil twilight runs about 26 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 32 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 Patras, Greece is Europe/Athens with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Patras has an estimated population of 175K and is located at coordinates 38.25°N, 21.73°E.
Patras gets 14h 50m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 30m on its shortest, averaging 12h 12m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Patras falls at about 12:33 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 8.3° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Carnival Running Since 1829: Patras Carnival has been held since 1829, which makes it the longest-running carnival in Greece and among the largest in Europe. Its treasure hunt game involves tens of thousands of participants.