Current time in Tallinn, Estonia
The current local time in Tallinn is shown below. Tallinn observes EET in winter and EEST during daylight saving time.
What's the daylight saving status?
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
What's the timezone history of Tallinn?
Estonia keeps Eastern European Time at UTC+2, an hour ahead of central Europe, the same clock as Finland directly across the gulf, so the busy Tallinn to Helsinki ferry route crosses no time boundary despite linking two countries. The country returned to the Eastern zone in 1991 on restoring its independence, having spent the Soviet decades on Moscow Time. It follows the EU's daylight-saving schedule, and its high latitude brings long, light summer evenings and dark winter afternoons.
What are the working hours in Tallinn?
Estonia has built a reputation as one of the most digital societies in the world, with a heavily online public administration and a lively technology and start-up sector that shapes much of the white-collar working day, run broadly 09:00 to 17:00 on weekdays. The cultural and commercial ties to Helsinki and the wider Nordic region orient much business northward. The long summer holiday concentrates in July, and Midsummer in late June is among the most significant dates in the calendar, emptying the city for the countryside.
Where is Tallinn?
Tallinn stands on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, the capital of Estonia and its largest city with around 450,000 people. Its medieval old town, one of the best preserved in northern Europe, sits on a low limestone hill above the Baltic port. The city looks directly across the gulf to Helsinki, around 80 kilometres north, near enough that a fast ferry crosses in about two hours and the two capitals function in some respects as a single labour market.