Current time in Thessaloniki, Greece
The current local time in Thessaloniki is shown below. Thessaloniki 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 Thessaloniki?
Thessaloniki keeps Eastern European Time at UTC+2 with the rest of Greece, switching to summer time under the EU schedule. The northern position gives the city a touch more seasonal variation in daylight than Athens to the south, though the difference is small. As a Balkan gateway it sits at a meeting point of clocks: the Central European Time countries of the western Balkans, an hour behind, lie close to the west, while Bulgaria and the rest of the Eastern zone share its offset to the east and north.
What are the working hours in Thessaloniki?
The port, trade across the Balkans, a large student population at one of the country's biggest universities, and a growing technology sector anchor the working economy. The working day runs broadly 09:00 to 17:00, often with a long midday break and business resuming into the evening in the Mediterranean manner, especially through the hot summer. The Orthodox Christian calendar shapes the main closures, with Easter the most important festival of the year, and much of the city slows through August.
Where is Thessaloniki?
Thessaloniki spreads around the head of the Thermaic Gulf in northern Greece, the country's second city, with a metropolitan population of around 1 million. Founded in 315 BC and a great city of the Byzantine and Ottoman worlds, it carries layers of Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Jewish, and Ottoman history in its churches, walls, and markets. It has long been the principal port and commercial gateway of the southern Balkans, looking north toward the interior as much as south across the Aegean.