VIES Status for Greece

Last 24 hours

6.33%

Last 7 days

75.56%

Last 30 days

92.91%

Rank among member states

#26 of 28

Figures cover 30 days of our samples (2836 for EL), capped at 30 days — not a full month yet unless it says so. All member states averaged 97.77% over the same window.

When Greece Was Unavailable

5 separate outages, 2 d 7 h of observed downtime in total. Times are UTC. Sampling is every 15 minutes, so each window is accurate to within one interval on each side.

Day by Day

One column per UTC day. The number above a column is the percentage of readings that failed that day; a blank means every reading came back.

The Hours Greece Goes Quiet

In our samples, the weakest hour is 02:00–03:00 UTC at 90.00% across 120 readings, and the weakest day is Saturday at 81.56%. That is a description of what we recorded, not a schedule – treat it as a hint about when to retry, not a promise.

By hour of day (UTC)

By weekday

When Outages Start

Which weekday and hour the 5 recorded EL outages began. A long maintenance window counts once, so this is a different question from the charts above – it says when the node tends to drop, not how long it stays down.

Weekday × Hour

EL availability by UTC weekday and hour, across 30 days of samples. Dark green is healthy; red is a slot where the node regularly fails to answer.

Hours are UTC. Hover a cell for the exact figure.

Greece VAT Number Format and Checks

VIES prefix

EL

Format

EL + 9 digits

Example

EL094019245 — OTE S.A. (Hellenic Telecom)

Standard VAT rate

24% — Φόρος Προστιθέμενης Αξίας (ΦΠΑ)

Questions People Ask

Is VIES down for Greece right now?

Yes. At our last reading the EL node was not answering VIES requests. No provider can validate Greek VAT numbers while that lasts, because VIES holds no data of its own — every answer comes from the member state live.

Why does a valid Greek VAT number fail to validate?

If the number is well-formed and the EL node is unavailable, the failure is upstream, not in the number. VIES returns a service error rather than "invalid", and any provider that turns that into "invalid" is lying to you. vatnode returns a distinct VIES_UNAVAILABLE error with HTTP 503 so your code can retry instead of rejecting a real customer.

Does Greece publish a VIES maintenance schedule?

The Commission publishes a general VIES maintenance notice, but member states take their own systems down without announcing it to API consumers. That is why this page exists: the recorded history shows when the EL node was actually unreachable, whatever the schedule says.

Can I still validate a Greek VAT number during an outage?

Not against VIES. What you can do is queue the check and retry — vatnode's monitoring re-runs a subscription's checks through the day and tells you when the answer finally lands, so a customer is not blocked by a member state's downtime.

Where does this data come from?

From the European Commission's own check-status endpoint, sampled every 15 minutes and kept. It is the Commission's view of its member states, not an independent probe, so it can lag a node going down and it describes reachability rather than whether one particular number validates.

Other Member States

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