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Ephemeris of Thursday 22 August, 2024

The sun and moon on 08/22/2024 in Greece

(All times given here are in Athens local time)

Sunrise: 6:45 AM
Sunset: 8:10 PM
The sun will be at its zenith at 1:27 PM
Sunshine duration: 13 hours and 24 minutes (-2 minutes compared to yesterday)

Tomorrow the sun will rise at 6:46 AM and set at 8:08 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

17 days moon

On 08/22/2024 the moon was 17 days old.
Next full moon on 18 September, 2024.
Next new moon on 3 September, 2024.

Commemorations on 22 August

(according to the Greek-Orthodox calendar)

Saints of the day

  • Ste Martyre Anthouse et ses serviteurs Charissime et Néophyte, ainsi que St Athanase Evêque
    Ανθούσης και των οικετών αυτής Χαρισίμου και Νεοφύτου και Αθανασίου Επισκόπου Μαρτύρων
  • Sts Martyrs Agathonicus, Zoticus, Zeno, Theoprepius, Acyndinus and Severian
    Αγαθονίκου, Ζωτικού, Ζήνωνος, Θεοπρεπίου, Ακινδύνου και Σεβηριανού Μαρτύρων

Fasting Instructions: the August 22 is a free of fasting day (κατάλυση)

Today we celebrate these names in Greece

Un jour comme un 22 August

1935

Pavlos Kountouriotis décède dans sa résidence du Palaio Faliro en banlieu d'Athènes à l'âge de 80 ans. Il avait été amiral de la Marine nationale grecque et par deux fois Président de la République.

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