Current time in Basel, Switzerland right now
It is 4:31 pm in Basel, Switzerland 🇨🇭 right now, on Friday, September 25, 2026. The city keeps Europe/Zurich, which is CEST at UTC+2, so Basel is 2 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 2:31 pm. The sun rose in Basel at 7:20 am and sets at 7:22 pm, which is 12 hours 1 minute of daylight.
What time is it in Basel right now?
The time in Basel, Switzerland is 4:31 pm, 16:31 on a 24 hour clock, on Friday September 25, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Europe/Zurich rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Basel sits at 47.56 degrees north and 7.57 degrees east, well into the temperate belt and 5,288 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 30.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 22.4 degrees west of that line. Those 22.4 degrees are worth 89 minutes 42 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 1:21 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Basel time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Basel, Switzerland is Europe/Zurich. Right now it is running at UTC+2 and the abbreviation in force is CEST. Basel is on summer time at the moment, which is why the offset reads UTC+2 rather than the UTC+1 it keeps in winter.
Daylight hours in Basel today
The sun rose in Basel at 7:20 am and sets at 7:22 pm, which is 12 hours 1 minute of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Basel, is at 1:21 pm, which is 81 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -0.96 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 41.5 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Basel |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 7:20 am |
| Sunset | 7:22 pm |
| Solar noon | 1:21 pm |
| Day length | 12 hours 1 minute |
| Evening golden hour | 6:41 pm to 7:40 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 7:52 pm |
The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Basel, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Basel is on the map
The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.
An interactive map of Basel. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Basel on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Basel and major cities
Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Basel.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Basel |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 7:31 am | -9 | 9 hours behind of Basel |
| Chicago, Illinois | 9:31 am | -7 | 7 hours behind of Basel |
| New York, New York | 10:31 am | -6 | 6 hours behind of Basel |
| Toronto, Canada | 10:31 am | -6 | 6 hours behind of Basel |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 11:31 am | -5 | 5 hours behind of Basel |
| London, United Kingdom | 3:31 pm | -1 | 1 hour behind of Basel |
| Paris, France | 4:31 pm | 0 | same time as Basel |
| Berlin, Germany | 4:31 pm | 0 | same time as Basel |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 4:31 pm | 0 | same time as Basel |
| Moscow, Russia | 5:31 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Basel |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 6:31 pm | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Basel |
| Delhi, India | 8:01 pm | +3:30 | 3 hours 30 minutes ahead of Basel |
| Singapore, Singapore | 10:31 pm | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Basel |
| Hong Kong, China | 10:31 pm | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Basel |
| Tokyo, Japan | 11:31 pm | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Basel |
| Sydney, Australia | 12:31 am | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Basel |
Best time to call Basel
Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Basel | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -6 | 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 12:00 pm |
| Los Angeles | -9 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| London | -1 | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm |
| Delhi | +3:30 | 9:00 am to 2:30 pm | 12:30 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Sydney | +8 | 9:00 am to 10:00 am | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
Other cities in Switzerland
We cover 6 cities in Switzerland. These are the ones nearest to Basel, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bern | Bern | 4:31 pm | UTC+2 |
| Zurich | Zurich | 4:31 pm | UTC+2 |
| Winterthur | Zurich | 4:31 pm | UTC+2 |
| Lausanne | Vaud | 4:31 pm | UTC+2 |
| Geneva | Geneva | 4:31 pm | UTC+2 |
Cities on Europe/Zurich time
6 of our cities keep Europe/Zurich, so every one of them reads 4:31 pm at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Basel. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Basel |
|---|---|---|
| Bern, Switzerland | 4:31 pm | 69 km |
| Zurich, Switzerland | 4:31 pm | 76 km |
| Winterthur, Switzerland | 4:31 pm | 87 km |
| Lausanne, Switzerland | 4:31 pm | 136 km |
| Geneva, Switzerland | 4:31 pm | 186 km |
Moon phase over Basel tonight
The moon is a full moon tonight, 14.5 days into its cycle and about 100% lit. The next full moon falls on September 26, 2026 at 6:48 pm Zurich time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 5:49 pm. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Basel clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Basel
The next change is on Sunday, October 25, 2026, 29 days from now, when the clocks in Basel go back 1 hour at 2:59 am and the offset moves from UTC+2 to UTC+1.
Two things follow from that. Any standing call with Basel shifts by an hour on that date unless the other side moves the same weekend, and every offset printed on this page is the offset for today rather than a fixed property of the city.
How far Basel is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Basel is Mulhouse, France at 28 km, and the furthest is Lower Hutt, New Zealand at 18,789 km, which is 94% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mulhouse, France | 28 | 18 | north west | 4:31 pm |
| Freiburg, Germany | 53 | 33 | north east | 4:31 pm |
| Bern, Switzerland | 69 | 43 | south | 4:31 pm |
| Zurich, Switzerland | 76 | 47 | east | 4:31 pm |
| Winterthur, Switzerland | 87 | 54 | east | 4:31 pm |
| Strasbourg, France | 115 | 71 | north | 4:31 pm |
| Besancon, France | 122 | 76 | west | 4:31 pm |
| Lausanne, Switzerland | 136 | 85 | south west | 4:31 pm |
| Reutlingen, Germany | 160 | 99 | north east | 4:31 pm |
| Nancy, France | 162 | 101 | north west | 4:31 pm |
The antipode of Basel
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Basel, Switzerland and you come out at 47.56 degrees south, 172.43 degrees west. That point is in the South Pacific Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Lower Hutt, New Zealand, 1,226 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 2:31 am on Saturday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 47.56 degrees north becomes 47.56 degrees south, and 7.57 degrees east becomes 172.43 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Basel is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-10, roughly twelve hours from Basel, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Basel
Today the sun rises in Basel at 7:20 am and sets at 7:22 pm, giving 12 hours 1 minute of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Basel.
Sun and moon in Basel today
The sun is up in Basel for 12 hours 1 minute today, from 7:20 am to 7:22 pm. The moon sets in Basel at 5:44 am and comes up again at 6:43 pm. The next phase is the full moon on September 26, 2026. It is 98% lit at the moment, a full moon, filling out by about 2.9 percentage points a day.
| Sun | Time in Basel |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:37 am |
| Nautical dawn | 6:14 am |
| Civil dawn | 6:50 am |
| Sunrise | 7:20 am |
| Solar noon | 1:21 pm |
| Sunset | 7:22 pm |
| Civil dusk | 7:52 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 8:28 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 9:05 pm |
Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.
| Light band | Time in Basel | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 6:50 am to 7:02 am | 0h 12m |
| Morning golden hour | 7:02 am to 8:01 am | 0h 59m |
| Evening golden hour | 6:41 pm to 7:40 pm | 0h 59m |
| Evening blue hour | 7:40 pm to 7:52 pm | 0h 12m |
Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.
| Moon | Reading in Basel |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:43 pm |
| Moonset | 5:44 am |
| Phase | full moon, waxing |
| Illumination | 98% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 14.3 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 384,800 km |
Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.
Meeting planner: Basel and four other places
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026 in Basel, Switzerland, read across 4 other places. Columns are Basel local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
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| Basel local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BaselCEST UTC+2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPDT UTC-7 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| LondonBST UTC+1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 3:30 | 4:30 | 5:30 | 6:30 | 7:30 | 8:30 | 9:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 22:30 | 23:30 | 0:30+1 | 1:30+1 | 2:30+1 |
No hour on Friday, September 25, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Los Angeles and Delhi are 12 hours 30 minutes apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 10:00 am in Basel it is working hours in Basel, London and Delhi, but outside them in Los Angeles and New York. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Basel
Seven days from September 25, 2026, computed for Basel, Switzerland at 47.56 degrees north, 7.57 degrees east, on the clock of Europe/Zurich. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday September 25 | 5:37 am | 7:20 am | 1:21 pm | 4:40 pm | 7:22 pm | 8:59 pm |
| Saturday September 26 | 5:38 am | 7:22 am | 1:21 pm | 4:38 pm | 7:20 pm | 8:57 pm |
| Sunday September 27 | 5:40 am | 7:23 am | 1:21 pm | 4:37 pm | 7:18 pm | 8:54 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 5:41 am | 7:24 am | 1:20 pm | 4:35 pm | 7:16 pm | 8:52 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 5:43 am | 7:26 am | 1:20 pm | 4:34 pm | 7:13 pm | 8:50 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 5:44 am | 7:27 am | 1:20 pm | 4:32 pm | 7:11 pm | 8:48 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 5:46 am | 7:29 am | 1:19 pm | 4:31 pm | 7:09 pm | 8:46 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Basel, Switzerland, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.
Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.
Qibla direction from Basel
From Basel, Switzerland the qibla is 124.0 degrees on a true compass, which is southeast, or 34.0 degrees south of due east. The Kaaba is 4,091 km away, 2,542 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Basel, Switzerland to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.
The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Basel, Switzerland before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.
Put a Basel clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Basel, Switzerland, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Europe/Zurich from the time zone database, so it stays right when Basel changes its clocks, and it shows CEST to every visitor wherever they are reading from. It is a plain iframe: no account, no script to install, nothing to pay.
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Basel time now: common questions
- What time is it in Basel, Switzerland right now?
- 4:31 pm on Friday September 25, 2026. Basel runs on CEST, UTC+2.
- What time zone is Basel in?
- Europe/Zurich, currently CEST at UTC+2. 6 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Basel?
- UTC+2 at this instant. It alternates between UTC+1 and UTC+2 across the year.
- Does Basel observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. The next change is October 25, 2026, when the clocks go back.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Basel of New York?
- Basel is 6 hours ahead of New York, where it is 10:31 am right now.
- What time does the sun set in Basel today?
- 7:22 pm, after a sunrise at 7:20 am and 12 hours 1 minute of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Basel?
- 47.56 degrees south, 172.43 degrees west, in the South Pacific Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Basel from London?
- Between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm in Basel, which is 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in London.
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