What time is it in Switzerland right now? 🇨🇭

It is 12:06 am in Bern right now, Sunday, September 27, 2026. Switzerland runs on CEST at UTC+2. Every reading on this page is computed from the IANA time zone database at the moment you loaded it, and the clocks above and below tick on from there.

Time in Switzerland now

Switzerland keeps a single time zone, Europe/Zurich, so there is one answer to the question and it is the same in every town: 12:06 am. The offset is UTC+2, and it is the summer one at the moment.

The offset from UTC in Bern is UTC+2, which is 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Nine in the morning in Bern is 7:00 am UTC.

Switzerland time zone in full

Each row is a zone identifier from the IANA database, its reading at this instant, its offset from UTC and whether it is currently on standard or summer time. All of them agree today, which is the usual case for Switzerland.

Does Switzerland have daylight saving time?

Switzerland does observe daylight saving, in every zone it has. The next change is on October 25, 2026, when the clocks go back and UTC+2 becomes UTC+1. Until then the offset here is UTC+2.

Because the clocks move, the gap between Switzerland and anywhere that does not move its own is not a constant. It shifts by an hour twice a year, and a difference memorised in one season is wrong in the other. That is the single most common source of a missed call into Switzerland.

Where Switzerland is on the map

The marker is on Bern, the point every sun reading and every call window on this page is worked out from.

Time difference between Bern and major cities

Worked out at this instant rather than from a stored table, so daylight saving on either side is already in it.

Best time to call Switzerland

A nine to five working day in Bern against a nine to five day elsewhere. The overlap column is the stretch when both desks are open, given on each side's own clock.

Daylight hours in Bern today

In Bern the sun rose at 7:23 am today and sets at 7:18 pm, giving 11 hours 55 minutes of daylight. The capital is losing 3 minutes 20 seconds of daylight a day at the moment, and the sun stands highest at 1:21 pm.

Solar noon in Bern is 1:21 pm, which is 81 minutes after clock noon. That gap is the capital sitting at 7.45 degrees east while its clock is set to Europe/Zurich, plus the equation of time, which today runs 9.0 minutes ahead of mean time, plus an hour of daylight saving for part of the year.

Moon phase over Bern tonight

The moon is waning gibbous tonight, 15.8 days into the current lunation, with roughly 99 percent of the disc lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 as Switzerland reads the date, at 5:11 am local. The moon phase page has the full cycle.

Current time in Switzerland cities

The 6 cities this site covers inside Switzerland, alphabetically, each with its own ticking clock and its own sunrise page.

Every IANA time zone in Switzerland

These are the identifiers a computer uses. A program that stores Europe/Zurich rather than UTC+2 keeps working through every future rule change, which is the whole reason the database is keyed this way.

Convert Switzerland time to another zone

The converter pages below take CEST against the zones people most often measure it from. Each one carries a full conversion table rather than a single answer.

Information about Switzerland

Switzerland sits in Europe, carries the ISO country code CH and a population of about 8,850,000. Its capital Bern is at 46.95 degrees north, 7.45 degrees east, which is the coordinate every sunrise and solar noon on this page is computed from.

Upcoming dates in Switzerland

Read on Switzerland's own clock, so the day counts below start from September 27 and not from a UTC date. The list is the internationally observed calendar plus the dates common across Europe, along with this country's own clock changes and the next solstices and equinoxes. National days set by a country's own statute are not included, because this site carries no statute table and a guessed one would be worse than an honest gap.

Sun and moon in Bern today

The sun is up in Bern for 11 hours 55 minutes today, from 7:23 am to 7:18 pm. The moon sets in Bern at 8:14 am and comes up again at 7:18 pm. The next phase is the last quarter on October 3, 2026. The moon is full, or as near to it as makes no difference, and the whole of the face turned towards us is lit.

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.

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.

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.

Prayer times in Bern

Seven days from September 27, 2026, computed for Bern at 46.95 degrees north, 7.45 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.

Dhuhr is solar noon at Bern, 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 Bern

From Bern the qibla is 123.1 degrees on a true compass, which is east-southeast, or 33.1 degrees south of due east. The Kaaba is 4,061 km away, 2,524 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Bern 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 Bern 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.

Questions about the time in Switzerland

What time is it in Switzerland right now?

It is 12:06 am in Bern as this page was served, Sunday, September 27, 2026. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.

What time zone is Switzerland in?

Switzerland uses Europe/Zurich, currently CEST at UTC+2.

What is the UTC offset in Switzerland?

UTC+2 in Bern at this instant.

Does Switzerland observe daylight saving time?

Yes. The next change is October 25, 2026.

What time does the sun set in Bern today?

7:18 pm, after a sunrise at 7:23 am and 11 hours 55 minutes of daylight.

When is the best time to call Switzerland from the United States?

Between 9:00 am and 11:00 am New York time, which is 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm in Bern.

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