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VIES Status for Lithuania

Whether the LT node is answering right now, every outage we have recorded, and the hours it fails most often. Read from the European Commission’s own availability feed every 15 minutes.

Right Now

Read 17:17 UTC · Sunday, 27 Sep 2026
LT is answeringCommission reports “Available”
Last 24 hours
100.00%
Last 7 days
90.88%
Last 30 days
93.12%
Rank among member states
#25 of 28

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

When Lithuania Was Unavailable

2 separate outages, 2 d 0 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.

DateWindow (UTC)LengthReported state
Saturday, 19 Sep 202607:31 – 08:00 (next day)2 d 0 hUnavailable
Wednesday, 9 Sep 202618:09 – 18:3930 minUnavailable

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.

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29
30
31
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
2.0
09
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
68.8
19
100.0
20
32.6
21
22
23
24
25
26
27

The Hours Lithuania Goes Quiet

In our samples, the weakest hour is 07:00–08:00 UTC at 90.83% across 109 readings, and the weakest day is Sunday at 78.48%. 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)

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By weekday

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Weekday × Hour

LT 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.

036912151821
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
≥ 99.5% ≥ 98% ≥ 95% ≥ 85% below 85% no samples yet

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

What Happens to Your Checks When Lithuania Is Down

Nothing validates against a member state that is not answering – not vatnode, not any other provider, not the tax authority’s own portal. VIES stores no data of its own: every answer comes from the member state live, so there is no cache to fall back on and no way to fake one honestly.

What an API can do is fail in a way you can act on. A LT outage comes back as VIES_UNAVAILABLE with HTTP 503 – never as “invalid”, which would have you rejecting real customers over someone else’s downtime. Monitoring re-runs the check through the day and tells you when the answer finally lands.

For Lithuania there is no national fallback route today — VIES is the only official source vatnode can reach, so a LT outage is a hard stop until the node returns. When it does answer, the response carries the registered name and address alongside the validity flag.

Full error semantics are in the API docs. For vatnode’s own uptime rather than VIES, see System Status.

Lithuania VAT Number Format and Checks

VIES prefix
LT
Format
LT + 9 or 12 digits
Example
LT212154314 — Telia Lietuva AB
Standard VAT rate
21% — Pridėtinės vertės mokestis (PVM)
Check Lithuanian VAT numbersLithuania VAT APIReverse charge in LithuaniaEU VAT rates

Questions People Ask

Is VIES down for Lithuania right now?
No. At our last reading the LT node was answering VIES requests. The reading is at most 15 minutes old, and a member state can drop out between samples.
Why does a valid Lithuanian VAT number fail to validate?
If the number is well-formed and the LT 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 Lithuania 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 LT node was actually unreachable, whatever the schedule says.
Can I still validate a Lithuanian 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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