| 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 |
Thessaloniki, 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 Thessaloniki 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 Thessaloniki lines up with 09:00–11:00 in New York. The time difference between Thessaloniki 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 Thessaloniki lines up with 09:00–16:00 in London. The time difference between Thessaloniki 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 Thessaloniki 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 Thessaloniki.
Thessaloniki (Greece) is home to roughly 325K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:23, sunset at 19:12. 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 41° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Greece
Capital
Athens
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+3 · Europe/Athens
Coordinates
40.64°N, 22.94°E
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+30
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Greek
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Thessaloniki was known as the Mother of Israel; by 1900 roughly half its population was Sephardic Jewish, descended from families expelled from Spain in 1492. Around 96% of the community was deported and killed in 1943.
The clock: Thessaloniki keeps UTC+2. Its White Tower, built by the Ottomans in the 15th century, was a prison whose whitewashing in 1890 gave it the name.
Thessaloniki lies at 22.9°E. Its time zone, UTC+2, is built around the 30°E meridian. The 7.1° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 28 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:28 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 88 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:28.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 5m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 16m. The swing between them is 5h 50m. 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 Thessaloniki the sun comes up earliest on 15 June at 05:56, while the latest sunset waits until 29 June at 21:03. 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 Thessaloniki that civil twilight runs about 27 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 33 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 Thessaloniki, Greece is Europe/Athens with a current UTC offset of UTC+3.
Thessaloniki has an estimated population of 325K and is located at coordinates 40.64°N, 22.94°E.
Thessaloniki gets 15h 5m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 16m on its shortest, averaging 12h 12m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Thessaloniki falls at about 12:28 on UTC+2 standard time, because the city sits 7.1° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City That Was Once Half Jewish: Thessaloniki was known as the Mother of Israel; by 1900 roughly half its population was Sephardic Jewish, descended from families expelled from Spain in 1492. Around 96% of the community was deported and killed in 1943.