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Time in Helsinki, Finland now

07:53:52AM

Sunday, October 26, 2025

Helsinki switched to standard time at 04:00AM on Sunday, October 26. The time was set one hour back.
Sun: ↑ 07:26AM ↓ 04:42PM (9h 16m) - More info - Make Helsinki time default - Add to favorite locations

Time zone info for Helsinki

UTC +2

Eastern European Time (EET)
now 6 hours ahead of New York

From 29 March 2026: UTC +3 / Eastern European Summer Time (EEST)
The time in Helsinki is normally 7 hours ahead of the time in New York, but because these time zones don't share the same start and end times for daylight saving time, the time in Helsinki can for a short while be 6 hours ahead of the time in New York.
The IANA time zone identifier for Helsinki is Europe/Helsinki.

Sunday October 26 2025

Latest change: Winter time started

Switched to UTC +2 / Eastern European Time (EET).
The time was set back one hour from 04:00AM to 03:00AM local time.

Sunday March 29 2026

Next change: Summer time starts

Switching to UTC +3 / Eastern European Summer Time (EEST).
The time will be set forward one hour from 03:00AM to 04:00AM local time.

Time difference
from Helsinki

Los Angeles	−9 hours	−9 hours
Chicago	−7 hours	−7 hours
New York	−6 hours	−6 hours
Toronto	−6 hours	−6 hours
São Paulo	−5 hours	−5 hours
London	−2 hours	−2 hours
UTC	−2 hours	−2 hours
Lagos	−1 hours	−1 hours
Paris	−1 hours	−1 hours
Zurich	−1 hours	−1 hours
Johannesburg	0
Cairo	+1 hours
Istanbul	+1 hours
Moscow	+1 hours
Dubai	+2 hours
Mumbai	+3.5 hours
Hong Kong	+6 hours
Shanghai	+6 hours
Singapore	+6 hours
Tokyo	+7 hours
Sydney	+9 hours

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Sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time for Helsinki

Sunrise: 07:26AM
Sunset: 04:42PM
Day length: 9h 16m
Solar noon: 12:04PM
The current local time in Helsinki is 4 minutes ahead of apparent solar time.

Helsinki on the map

Helsinki is the capital of Finland.
Latitude: 60.17. Longitude: 24.94
Population: 686,000

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Best restaurants in Helsinki

#1 Café Boardgame - Street food and vegetarian options food
#2 Restaurant Olo - Scandinavian and vegetarian options food
#3 Restaurant Plein - Wine bars and vegetarian options food
#4 Ravintola Vinkkeli - European and scandinavian food

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