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Ephemeris of Friday 24 May, 2024

The sun and moon on 05/24/2024 in Greece

(All times given here are in Athens local time)

Sunrise: 6:06 AM
Sunset: 8:37 PM
The sun will be at its zenith at 1:22 PM
Sunshine duration: 14 hours and 31 minutes (1 minute compared to yesterday)

Tomorrow the sun will rise at 6:05 AM and set at 8:38 PM

Right now the time in Greece is 1:00 AM.
Greece's time difference from the Greenwich meridian: 3 hours(*)
Greece's time difference from Paris: 1 hour
(*) taking into account summer/winter time

15 days moon

On 05/24/2024 the moon was 15 days old.
Next full moon on 22 June, 2024.
Next new moon on 6 June, 2024.

Commemorations on 24 May

(according to the Greek-Orthodox calendar)

Saints of the day

  • St Syméon stylite du mont Admirable
  • Sts Mélèce le stratilate et ses compagnons
  • St Nicétas le stylite de Pereyaslav
    Νικήτα στυλίτου του Ρώσου
  • St Cyriaque d'Eurychou à Chypre
    Κυριακού του εν Ευρύχου Κύπρου

Fasting Instructions: the May 24 is a fasting day with fish, wine and oil permitted (ιχθύος)

Today we celebrate these names in Greece

Un jour comme un 24 May

1998

Enfin, Angelopoulos (Théodoros) réalise son rêve : être consacré à Cannes ! Il obtient la Palme d'or du Festival pour (son film) "L'éternité et un jour".

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1788

Adamantios Koraïs arrive à Paris où il assiste aux évènements de la Révolution française qui inspireront son engagement pour le soulèvement du peuple grec contre l'Empire ottoman.

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