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Time in Switzerland now

12:48:46PM

Saturday, 21 December, 2024, week 51

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Time zone info for Switzerland

UTC +1

Central European Time (CET)
now 6 hours ahead of New York

From 30 March 2025: UTC +2 / Central European Summer Time (CEST)
The time in Switzerland is normally 6 hours ahead of the time in New York, but because these time zones don't share the same start and end times for daylight saving time, the time in Switzerland can for a short while be 5 hours ahead of the time in New York.
The IANA time zone identifier for Switzerland is Europe/Zurich.

Sunday October 27 2024

Latest change: Winter time started

Switched to UTC +1 / Central European Time (CET).
The time was set back one hour from 03:00AM to 02:00AM local time.

Sunday March 30 2025

Next change: Summer time starts

Switching to UTC +2 / Central European Summer Time (CEST).
The time will be set forward one hour from 02:00AM to 03:00AM local time.

Time difference
from Switzerland

Los Angeles	−9 hours	−9 hours
Chicago	−7 hours	−7 hours
New York	−6 hours	−6 hours
Toronto	−6 hours	−6 hours
São Paulo	−4 hours	−4 hours
London	−1 hours	−1 hours
UTC	−1 hours	−1 hours
Lagos	0
Paris	0
Zurich	0
Cairo	+1 hours
Johannesburg	+1 hours
Istanbul	+2 hours
Moscow	+2 hours
Dubai	+3 hours
Mumbai	+4.5 hours
Hong Kong	+7 hours
Shanghai	+7 hours
Singapore	+7 hours
Tokyo	+8 hours
Sydney	+10 hours

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Switzerland on the map

Continent: Europe
Area: 41,290 km²
Capital: Bern
Currency: Franc (CHF)
Calling code: +41
Internet top level domain: .ch
Latitude: 47.00. Longitude: 8.01
Population: 8,517,000

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Annual average temperatures
for Switzerland 1864-2021

Each of the stripes represents one year.
Graphics by Ed Hawkins, using data from MeteoSwiss.
See showyourstripes.info.

The 24 largest cities in
Switzerland