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9–17 in Geneva vs UTC
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- Vätertag7 Jun 2026
- Bundesfeiertag1 Aug 2026
- Eidg. Dank-, Buss- und Bettag20 Sept 2026
- Weihnachtstag25 Dec 2026
- Stephanstag26 Dec 2026
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About Geneva
Home to roughly 201,818 residents, Geneva is a compact city in Switzerland. The city sits at 375 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
The Europe/Zurich zone governs civic time in Geneva; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. Sun behaviour here follows the temperate pattern of the northern hemisphere, with the steepest seasonal day-length swings around the equinoxes.
Visitors will find prices listed in CHF; phones reach Switzerland via the +41 country code. Beyond the live clock, every datapoint on this page — sun events, holidays, time-zone offsets — is also available as machine-readable JSON, ready for agents and integrations.
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Questions about time in Geneva
The current local time in Geneva, Switzerland is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Geneva uses the IANA time zone Europe/Zurich, currently UTC+2.
Whether Geneva observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Europe/Zurich) is the source of truth.
Geneva is currently 6 hours ahead of New York.
Geneva is currently 1 hour ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Geneva are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (46.2044, 6.1432).
Switzerland uses the CHF currency and the +41 international dialing code.
Geneva sits at 46.2044° N, 6.1432° E, 375 m above sea level, in Switzerland.