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Ephemeris of Wednesday 1 January, 2025

The sun and moon on 01/01/2025 in Greece

(All times given here are in Athens local time)

Sunrise: 7:39 AM
Sunset: 5:17 PM
The sun will be at its zenith at 12:28 PM
Sunshine duration: 9 hours and 38 minutes (1 minute compared to yesterday)

Tomorrow the sun will rise at 7:39 AM and set at 5:18 PM

Right now the time in Greece is 1:00 AM.
Greece's time difference from the Greenwich meridian: 2 hours(*)
Greece's time difference from Paris: 1 hour
(*) taking into account summer/winter time

29 days moon

On 01/01/2025 it was a new moon.
Next full moon on 14 January, 2025.
Next new moon on 29 January, 2025.

Commemorations on 1 January

(according to the Greek-Orthodox calendar)

Saints of the day

  • Circumcision of our Lord Jesus Christ
    Η κατά σάρκα περιτομή του Κυρίου ημών Ιησού Χριστού
  • Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia
    Αγίου Βασιλείου του Μεγάλου, αρχιεπισκόπου Καισαρείας Καππαδοκίας
  • Saint Theodotus, Martyr
    Αγίου Θεοδότου, μάρτυρος
  • Saint Theodosius, Abbot of Triglia
    Αγίου Θεοδοσίου, ηγουμένου εν Τριγλία
  • Saint Peter of Tripoli in the Peloponnesus
    Αγίου Πέτρου του εκ Τριπόλεως Πελοποννήσου

Fasting Instructions: the January 1 is a free of fasting day (κατάλυση)

Today we celebrate these names in Greece

A day like a 1 January

2003

Succédant au Danemark, la Grèce prend la présidence semestrielle tournante de l'Union Européenne. Durant ce mandat, l'Union s'élargira à dix nouveaux pays: vers l'Europe de l'Est, Chypre et Malte.

1981
La Grèce devient officiellement membre de la Communauté Européenne, ancêtre de l'Union Européenne.
1912
Naissance à Krokoai en Laconie, dans le Péloponnèse, du poète Nikiforos Vrettakos. (More on
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