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The Current Local Date and Time in Sparta, Greece (GR)

Name: Sparta
Address: Sparta, GR

Time Zone Europe/Athens

03:33:10

Local Time Date and Timezone

Where is Sparta? (Greece, GR)

Sparta is a city located in Greece (GR).
Latitude 37.07446 Longitude 22.43009

Sparta location on the Greece (GR) map

Information about Sparta

City: Sparta
Country: Greece (GR)
Latitude: 37.07446
Longitude: 22.43009
Time Zone: Europe/Athens

Time zone and UTC offset ofSparta

Sparta, Greece is in the Europe/Athens time zone, which is currently UTC+3. This time zone observes daylight saving time (currently in effect). The next clock change is on October 25, 2026.

Current time difference with other cities

Sparta is 2 hours ahead of London
Sparta is 7 hours ahead of New York
Sparta is 10 hours ahead of Los Angeles
Sparta is 1 hour behind Dubai
Sparta is 6 hours behind Tokyo
Sparta is 8 hours behind Sydney

Frequently asked questions about time inSparta

What time zone is Sparta in?

Sparta, Greece is in the Europe/Athens time zone (currently UTC+3).

Does Sparta observe daylight saving time?

Yes, the clocks change during the year in this time zone.

What is the time difference between Sparta and New York?

Sparta is 7 hours ahead of New York (the difference can change when either place switches to or from daylight saving time).

What are the coordinates of Sparta?

Sparta is located at latitude 37.07446 and longitude 22.43009.

Sunrise, sunset and moon phase inSparta today

Astronomical data for October 16, 2026 in Sparta, calculated for the Europe/Athens time zone. All times are local.

Sun

Sunrise: 07:39
Solar noon: 13:16
Sunset: 18:52
Length of day: 11 h 14 min

Moon

Moon phase: Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 26%
Moon age: about 5.0 days
Moonrise: 13:19
Moonset: 22:30

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City of Sparta

Sparta was a prominent ancient Greek polis in Laconia. In classical antiquity, the state was known as Lacedaemon (Λακεδαίμων, Lakedaímōn), while Sparta referred to its capital, a group of villages in the valley of the Evrotas River in Laconia, in southeastern Peloponnese. During the 7th century BC, it rose to become the most prominent land military power in the Greek world, a status it retained until its defeat at Leuctra in 371 BC. In the 6th century BC Sparta founded the Peloponnesian League, establishing its hegemony over most of Peloponnese. During the second Persian invasion of Greece, Sparta was recognised as the leading land force of the Hellenic alliance that also included the rising maritime power of Athens. The Spartan army was crucial in the battles of Thermopylae and Plataea under the leadership of Leonidas and Pausanias respectively. Sparta led the Peloponnesian League against the Athenian Empire during the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), from which it emerged victorious after Lysander's victory at the naval Battle of Aegospotami. A short period of Spartan hegemony followed, when Spartan armies under Agesilaus II led a series of campaigns in western Anatolian satrapies of the Achaemenid empire to protect the Ionian cities. However, Epaminondas' victory over Sparta at Leuctra in 371 BC started the Theban hegemony while Messenia was freed from Spartan rule; the loss of the slave labour this region provided sent the city into terminal decline as a military power. Nonetheless, Sparta tried to reclaim its hegemony in Peloponnese several times until it was annexed by the Achaean League in early 2nd century BC. The city recovered some autonomy after the Roman conquest of Greece in 146 BC and became a tourist destination during the Roman era, restoring some measure of prosperity. However, Sparta was sacked in 396 AD by the Visigothic king Alaric, and underwent a long period of decline into the medieval period, when much of its population relocated to the nearby Mystras. Modern Sparta is a provincial town and the seat of the Laconia regional administration. Sparta was unique in ancient Greece for its social system and constitution, which were supposedly introduced by the semi-mythical lawgiver Lycurgus. Spartan society was exceptionally militarised, focusing the entire attention of the Spartiate class on military training and physical development to the point of legally barring them from productive economic activity. The inhabitants of Sparta were rigidly stratified into Spartiates (citizens with full rights), mothakes and perioikoi (free non-citizens), and helots (state-owned enslaved non-Spartan locals), with helots making up the vast majority of the population; social mobility was nearly nonexistent. Spartiate men underwent the harsh agoge training regimen, and Spartan phalanx units were widely considered to be among the best in battle, though this was as much a matter of propaganda as battlefield prowess. Free Spartiate women enjoyed somewhat greater legal rights than elsewhere in classical antiquity, though helots suffered exceptionally harsh treatment at the hands of the Spartiates (particularly the Crypteia), causing repeated revolts. Sparta was a subject of fascination in its own day, as well as in later Western culture following the revival of classical learning. The admiration of Sparta is known as Laconophilia.
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