Irákleion, Greece
Current time in Greece
Time zone: EEST (UTC/GMT +03:00) — Europe/Athens
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -5 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +3 ) Irákleion, Greece |
What time zone is Irákleion in?
Irákleion keeps EEST (3 hours ahead of UTC, UTC+03:00). Its database zone is Europe/Athens — worth knowing if you are scheduling anything that has to survive a daylight saving change.
This zone does shift. On Sunday, 25 October 2026 the clocks go back 1 hour and Irákleion moves to EET, so anything booked across that date needs checking.
Around 137,154 people live in Irákleion, making it the 5th largest of the 5 Greece cities covered here.
Time gaps from Irákleion right now
How Irákleion lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Irákleion is 7 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Irákleion is 10 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Irákleion is 2 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Irákleion is 1 hour ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Irákleion is 1 hour behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Irákleion is 2 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Irákleion is 5 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Irákleion is 6 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Irákleion is 7 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Irákleion is 6 hours ahead |
Best time to call Irákleion
Where the two working days actually meet, expressed in Irákleion local time.
| Paris | 10:00–17:00 in Irákleion | 7 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 09:00–16:00 in Irákleion | 7 hours overlap |
| London | 11:00–17:00 in Irákleion | 6 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 09:00–14:30 in Irákleion | 5.5 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with Los Angeles, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
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