Current time in Irakleion, Greece right now
It is 10:11 pm in Irakleion, Greece 🇬🇷 right now, on Saturday, September 26, 2026. The city keeps Europe/Athens, which is EEST at UTC+3, so Irakleion is 3 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 7:11 pm. The sun rose in Irakleion at 7:10 am and sets at 7:11 pm, which is 12 hours of daylight.
What time is it in Irakleion right now?
The time in Irakleion, Greece is 10:11 pm, 22:11 on a 24 hour clock, on Saturday September 26, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Europe/Athens rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Irakleion sits at 35.33 degrees north and 25.14 degrees east, in the subtropical belt and 3,928 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 45.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 19.9 degrees west of that line. Those 19.9 degrees are worth 79 minutes 26 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 1:11 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Irakleion time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Irakleion, Greece is Europe/Athens. Right now it is running at UTC+3 and the abbreviation in force is EEST. Irakleion is on summer time at the moment, which is why the offset reads UTC+3 rather than the UTC+2 it keeps in winter.
Daylight hours in Irakleion today
The sun rose in Irakleion at 7:10 am and sets at 7:11 pm, which is 12 hours of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Irakleion, is at 1:11 pm, which is 71 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.33 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 53.3 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Irakleion |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 7:10 am |
| Sunset | 7:11 pm |
| Solar noon | 1:11 pm |
| Day length | 12 hours |
| Evening golden hour | 6:37 pm to 7:26 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 7:36 pm |
The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Irakleion, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Irakleion is on the map
The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.
An interactive map of Irakleion. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Irakleion on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Irakleion and major cities
Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Irakleion.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Irakleion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 12:11 pm | -10 | 10 hours behind of Irakleion |
| Chicago, Illinois | 2:11 pm | -8 | 8 hours behind of Irakleion |
| New York, New York | 3:11 pm | -7 | 7 hours behind of Irakleion |
| Toronto, Canada | 3:11 pm | -7 | 7 hours behind of Irakleion |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 4:11 pm | -6 | 6 hours behind of Irakleion |
| London, United Kingdom | 8:11 pm | -2 | 2 hours behind of Irakleion |
| Paris, France | 9:11 pm | -1 | 1 hour behind of Irakleion |
| Berlin, Germany | 9:11 pm | -1 | 1 hour behind of Irakleion |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 9:11 pm | -1 | 1 hour behind of Irakleion |
| Moscow, Russia | 10:11 pm | 0 | same time as Irakleion |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 11:11 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Irakleion |
| Delhi, India | 12:41 am | +2:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes ahead of Irakleion |
| Singapore, Singapore | 3:11 am | +5 | 5 hours ahead of Irakleion |
| Hong Kong, China | 3:11 am | +5 | 5 hours ahead of Irakleion |
| Tokyo, Japan | 4:11 am | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Irakleion |
| Sydney, Australia | 5:11 am | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Irakleion |
Best time to call Irakleion
Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Irakleion | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -7 | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 11:00 am |
| Los Angeles | -10 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| London | -2 | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm |
| Delhi | +2:30 | 9:00 am to 3:30 pm | 11:30 am to 6:00 pm |
| Sydney | +7 | 9:00 am to 11:00 am | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
Other cities in Greece
We cover 8 cities in Greece. These are the ones nearest to Irakleion, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kallithea | Attica | 10:11 pm | UTC+3 |
| Piraeus | Attica | 10:11 pm | UTC+3 |
| Athens | Attica | 10:11 pm | UTC+3 |
| Peristeri | Attica | 10:11 pm | UTC+3 |
| Patra | West Greece | 10:11 pm | UTC+3 |
| Larisa | Thessaly | 10:11 pm | UTC+3 |
| Thessaloniki | Central Macedonia | 10:11 pm | UTC+3 |
Cities on Europe/Athens time
8 of our cities keep Europe/Athens, so every one of them reads 10:11 pm at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Irakleion. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Irakleion |
|---|---|---|
| Kallithea, Greece | 10:11 pm | 319 km |
| Piraeus, Greece | 10:11 pm | 320 km |
| Athens, Greece | 10:11 pm | 321 km |
| Peristeri, Greece | 10:11 pm | 326 km |
| Patra, Greece | 10:11 pm | 444 km |
| Larisa, Greece | 10:11 pm | 535 km |
| Thessaloniki, Greece | 10:11 pm | 622 km |
Moon phase over Irakleion tonight
The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 15.7 days into its cycle and about 99% lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 at 6:11 am Athens time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 6:49 pm. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Irakleion clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Irakleion
The next change is on Sunday, October 25, 2026, 28 days from now, when the clocks in Irakleion go back 1 hour at 3:59 am and the offset moves from UTC+3 to UTC+2.
Two things follow from that. Any standing call with Irakleion shifts by an hour on that date unless the other side moves the same weekend, and every offset printed on this page is the offset for today rather than a fixed property of the city.
How far Irakleion is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Irakleion is Kallithea, Greece at 319 km, and the furthest is Tauranga, New Zealand at 17,422 km, which is 87% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kallithea, Greece | 319 | 198 | north west | 10:11 pm |
| Piraeus, Greece | 320 | 199 | north west | 10:11 pm |
| Athens, Greece | 321 | 200 | north west | 10:11 pm |
| Peristeri, Greece | 326 | 202 | north west | 10:11 pm |
| Darnah, Libya | 367 | 228 | south west | 9:11 pm |
| Aydin, Turkey | 369 | 229 | north east | 10:11 pm |
| Tobruk, Libya | 377 | 234 | south | 9:11 pm |
| Karabaglar, Turkey | 383 | 238 | north east | 10:11 pm |
| Konak, Turkey | 383 | 238 | north east | 10:11 pm |
| Izmir, Turkey | 386 | 240 | north east | 10:11 pm |
The antipode of Irakleion
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Irakleion, Greece and you come out at 35.33 degrees south, 154.86 degrees west. That point is in the South Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Tauranga, New Zealand, 2,593 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 8:11 am on Sunday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 35.33 degrees north becomes 35.33 degrees south, and 25.14 degrees east becomes 154.86 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Irakleion is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-9, roughly twelve hours from Irakleion, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Irakleion
Today the sun rises in Irakleion at 7:10 am and sets at 7:11 pm, giving 12 hours of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Irakleion.
Weather in Irakleion right now
22°C (72°F), cloudy
| Conditions | Cloudy |
|---|---|
| Wind | 11 km/h (7 mph) from the NE, a light breeze |
| Humidity | 54% |
| Cloud cover | 99% |
| Pressure | 1014 hPa |
| Rain in the next hour | none forecast |
Reading taken 4 hours ago, local time 6 PM in Irakleion.
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Hourly forecast for Irakleion
The next 23 hours, in Irakleion local time. Temperatures are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- 10 PM 20°C 67°F Rain 9 km/h 0.9 mm
- 11 PM 19°C 66°F Heavy rain 4 km/h 1.3 mm
- 12 AM 19°C 66°F Rain 7 km/h 0.5 mm
- 1 AM 18°C 65°F Partly cloudy 10 km/h
- 2 AM 18°C 64°F Fair 6 km/h
- 3 AM 18°C 64°F Partly cloudy 6 km/h
- 4 AM 17°C 63°F Partly cloudy 5 km/h
- 5 AM 17°C 63°F Partly cloudy 5 km/h
- 6 AM 17°C 63°F Partly cloudy 8 km/h
- 7 AM 17°C 62°F Light rain showers 8 km/h 0.1 mm
- 8 AM 17°C 62°F Light rain showers 7 km/h 0.2 mm
- 9 AM 18°C 64°F Partly cloudy 5 km/h
- 10 AM 19°C 66°F Partly cloudy 7 km/h
- 11 AM 20°C 68°F Heavy rain showers 10 km/h 1.5 mm
- 12 PM 19°C 67°F Heavy rain showers 17 km/h 1.2 mm
- 1 PM 20°C 68°F Rain showers 15 km/h 0.5 mm
- 2 PM 21°C 70°F Heavy rain showers 14 km/h 2.0 mm
- 3 PM 20°C 68°F Rain 14 km/h 0.4 mm
- 4 PM 20°C 69°F Partly cloudy 16 km/h
- 5 PM 20°C 69°F Fair 18 km/h
- 6 PM 20°C 68°F Fair 19 km/h
- 7 PM 20°C 67°F Fair 16 km/h
- 8 PM 19°C 66°F Light rain showers 19 km/h 0.2 mm
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
7-day forecast for Irakleion
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 26 Sep | 22°C / 72°F | 19°C / 66°F | Cloudy | 2.6 mm |
| Sun 27 Sep | 21°C / 70°F | 17°C / 62°F | Heavy rain showers | 8.2 mm |
| Mon 28 Sep | 22°C / 72°F | 18°C / 64°F | Heavy rain showers | 9.0 mm |
| Tue 29 Sep | 23°C / 73°F | 18°C / 65°F | Fair | 4.0 mm |
| Wed 30 Sep | 21°C / 70°F | 17°C / 62°F | Rain showers | 16.4 mm |
| Thu 1 Oct | 21°C / 70°F | 17°C / 62°F | Rain showers | 7.4 mm |
| Fri 2 Oct | 20°C / 68°F | 16°C / 61°F | Rain showers | 1.6 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in Irakleion today
The sun is up in Irakleion for 12 hours today, from 7:10 am to 7:11 pm. The moon sets in Irakleion at 6:43 am and comes up again at 6:54 pm. The next phase is the full moon on September 26, 2026. The moon is full, or as near to it as makes no difference, and the whole of the face turned towards us is lit.
| Sun | Time in Irakleion |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:46 am |
| Nautical dawn | 6:15 am |
| Civil dawn | 6:45 am |
| Sunrise | 7:10 am |
| Solar noon | 1:11 pm |
| Sunset | 7:11 pm |
| Civil dusk | 7:36 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 8:06 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 8:35 pm |
Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.
| Light band | Time in Irakleion | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 6:45 am to 6:55 am | 0h 10m |
| Morning golden hour | 6:55 am to 7:44 am | 0h 49m |
| Evening golden hour | 6:37 pm to 7:26 pm | 0h 49m |
| Evening blue hour | 7:26 pm to 7:36 pm | 0h 10m |
Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.
| Moon | Reading in Irakleion |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:54 pm |
| Moonset | 6:43 am |
| Phase | full moon, waxing |
| Illumination | 100% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 15.2 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 380,700 km |
Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.
Meeting planner: Irakleion and four other places
Every hour of Saturday, September 26, 2026 in Irakleion, Greece, read across 4 other places. Columns are Irakleion local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
Change the places or the date
| Irakleion local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IrakleionEEST UTC+3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPDT UTC-7 | 14-1 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| LondonBST UTC+1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 2:30 | 3:30 | 4:30 | 5:30 | 6:30 | 7:30 | 8:30 | 9:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 22:30 | 23:30 | 0:30+1 | 1:30+1 |
No hour on Saturday, September 26, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Los Angeles and Delhi are 12 hours 30 minutes apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 11:00 am in Irakleion it is working hours in Irakleion, London and Delhi, but outside them in Los Angeles and New York. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Irakleion
Seven days from September 26, 2026, computed for Irakleion, Greece at 35.33 degrees north, 25.14 degrees east, on the clock of Europe/Athens. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday September 26 | 5:46 am | 7:10 am | 1:11 pm | 4:36 pm | 7:11 pm | 8:30 pm |
| Sunday September 27 | 5:46 am | 7:11 am | 1:10 pm | 4:35 pm | 7:09 pm | 8:29 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 5:47 am | 7:12 am | 1:10 pm | 4:34 pm | 7:08 pm | 8:27 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 5:48 am | 7:13 am | 1:10 pm | 4:33 pm | 7:06 pm | 8:26 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 5:49 am | 7:13 am | 1:09 pm | 4:32 pm | 7:05 pm | 8:24 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 5:50 am | 7:14 am | 1:09 pm | 4:31 pm | 7:04 pm | 8:23 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 5:50 am | 7:15 am | 1:09 pm | 4:30 pm | 7:02 pm | 8:22 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Irakleion, Greece, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.
Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.
Qibla direction from Irakleion
From Irakleion, Greece the qibla is 133.3 degrees on a true compass, which is southeast, or 43.3 degrees south of due east. The Kaaba is 2,105 km away, 1,308 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Irakleion, Greece to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.
The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Irakleion, Greece before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.
Put a Irakleion clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Irakleion, Greece, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Europe/Athens from the time zone database, so it stays right when Irakleion changes its clocks, and it shows EEST to every visitor wherever they are reading from. It is a plain iframe: no account, no script to install, nothing to pay.
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Irakleion time now: common questions
- What time is it in Irakleion, Greece right now?
- 10:11 pm on Saturday September 26, 2026. Irakleion runs on EEST, UTC+3.
- What time zone is Irakleion in?
- Europe/Athens, currently EEST at UTC+3. 8 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Irakleion?
- UTC+3 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+2 and UTC+3 across the year.
- Does Irakleion observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. The next change is October 25, 2026, when the clocks go back.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Irakleion of New York?
- Irakleion is 7 hours ahead of New York, where it is 3:11 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Irakleion today?
- 7:11 pm, after a sunrise at 7:10 am and 12 hours of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Irakleion?
- 35.33 degrees south, 154.86 degrees west, in the South Pacific Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Irakleion from London?
- Between 11:00 am and 6:00 pm in Irakleion, which is 9:00 am to 4:00 pm in London.
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