What is EST in EET?
Eastern European Time is 7 hours ahead
Eastern Time is on UTC−4:00 and Eastern European Time is on UTC+3:00 right now. Both are on daylight saving, so their clocks read EDT and EEST. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in New York
- 10:13 pm
- Time in Athens
- 5:13 am
- Difference
- +7 h
- Next clock change
- October 25, 2026
Convert a time
EEST — Eastern European Time
5:00 am
Wed, the next day
When the difference changes
Eastern Time and Eastern European Time do not change their clocks on the same dates, so the gap between them is not the same all year. Most converters show only today’s figure. These are the periods ahead:
- Now – October 25, 2026Eastern European Time is 7 hours ahead
- October 25, 2026 – November 1, 2026Eastern European Time is 6 hours ahead
- November 1, 2026 – March 14, 2027Eastern European Time is 7 hours ahead
- March 14, 2027 – March 28, 2027Eastern European Time is 6 hours ahead
- March 28, 2027 – onwardsEastern European Time is 7 hours ahead
Periods shorter than a day are not listed: both zones change at 2am in their own local time, so there are a few hours on each transition date when the gap is briefly something else.
Daylight saving
Eastern Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming EST.
Eastern European Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming EET.
EST to EET conversion table
Every hour of Tuesday, September 22, 2026, converted from Eastern Time to Eastern European Time. 7 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Athens, which is marked.
- 12:00 am EDT
- 7:00 am EEST
- 1:00 am EDT
- 8:00 am EEST
- 2:00 am EDT
- 9:00 am EEST
- 3:00 am EDT
- 10:00 am EEST
- 4:00 am EDT
- 11:00 am EEST
- 5:00 am EDT
- 12:00 pm EEST
- 6:00 am EDT
- 1:00 pm EEST
- 7:00 am EDT
- 2:00 pm EEST
- 8:00 am EDT
- 3:00 pm EEST
- 9:00 am EDT
- 4:00 pm EEST
- 10:00 am EDT
- 5:00 pm EEST
- 11:00 am EDT
- 6:00 pm EEST
- 12:00 pm EDT
- 7:00 pm EEST
- 1:00 pm EDT
- 8:00 pm EEST
- 2:00 pm EDT
- 9:00 pm EEST
- 3:00 pm EDT
- 10:00 pm EEST
- 4:00 pm EDT
- 11:00 pm EEST
- 5:00 pm EDT
- 12:00 am EEST+1 day
- 6:00 pm EDT
- 1:00 am EEST+1 day
- 7:00 pm EDT
- 2:00 am EEST+1 day
- 8:00 pm EDT
- 3:00 am EEST+1 day
- 9:00 pm EDT
- 4:00 am EEST+1 day
- 10:00 pm EDT
- 5:00 am EEST+1 day
- 11:00 pm EDT
- 6:00 am EEST+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 11:00 am EDT, which is 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm EEST. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
Eastern Time (EDT) is used in Toronto, Atlanta, Miami, Detroit and most of the US east coast
Eastern European Time (EEST) is used in Helsinki, Bucharest, Kyiv and Cairo