🇨🇭 Time in Switzerland

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18:10:32

Thursday, 13 August 2026

Capital City: Bern

Largest Cities:

ISO Alpha-2: CH

ISO Alpha-3: CHE

IANA Time Zone: Europe/Zurich (UTC+01:00)

Time Zones: CEST, CET

Cantons in Switzerland

Time Now in Major Cities in Switzerland

CityCurrent Time
Basel Thu 18:10:32
Bern Thu 18:10:32
Genève Thu 18:10:32
Lausanne Thu 18:10:32
Luzern Thu 18:10:32
Sankt Gallen Thu 18:10:32
Winterthur Thu 18:10:32
Zürich Thu 18:10:32

Time Now in All IANA Timezones for Switzerland

TimezoneCurrent Time
Europe/Zurich Thu 18:10:32

Sunrise and Sunset in Switzerland (8 Locations)

City ↑ Sunrise ↓ Sunset
Basel
6:23 AM
8:45 PM
Bern
6:25 AM
8:44 PM
Genève
6:32 AM
8:47 PM
Lausanne
6:29 AM
8:46 PM
Luzern
6:21 AM
8:41 PM
Sankt Gallen
6:16 AM
8:37 PM
Winterthur
6:18 AM
8:40 PM
Zürich
6:19 AM
8:40 PM

Current Weather in Switzerland (8 Locations)

City Condition Temp.

Information about Switzerland

Population 8,516,543
Area 41,290 km²
ISO Numeric Code 756
FIPS Code SZ
Top Level Domain .ch
Currency Franc (CHF)
Phone Prefix +41
Country Code +41
Postal Code Format ####
Postal Code Regex ^(\d{4})$
Languages DE-CH (de-CH), FR-CH (fr-CH), IT-CH (it-CH), RM (rm)
Neighbouring Countries 🇦🇹 Austria, 🇫🇷 France, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein

Upcoming Public Holidays in Switzerland

This year, Switzerland observes 4 public holidays, with 4 scheduled for 2027. The next holiday is Christmas Day on 25 Dec. The most recently passed holiday was National Day. Explore the full calendar of Public Holidays in Switzerland to plan your schedule.

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FAQ — Switzerland

Common questions about this page — answers customized for the data shown above.

The clocks at the top of this page show the current local time in Switzerland, updated live. Switzerland uses Europe/Zurich (CET) — UTC+01:00.

Switzerland uses a single time zone for the whole country. Countries split into multiple time zones for geographic, political, or historical reasons — wider east-west spans usually mean more zones.

The capital of Switzerland is Bern. Click through for the current local time in Bern, plus sunrise, sunset and weather details for the capital.

The most populous cities in Switzerland include Zürich, Genève, Basel, Lausanne and Bern. Each city page shows current local time, sunrise/sunset, and weather.

Switzerland observes 4 public holidays this year. The full list — fixed and movable, religious and secular, national and regional — is on the Switzerland public holidays page.

Switzerland's ISO 3166-1 country codes are: alpha-2 code CH and alpha-3 code CHE. These codes are used in address fields, web domains (ccTLD), phone country lookups, and any international data interchange referring to this country. The Switzerland calendar also uses these as identifiers.

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