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9–17 in Zurich vs UTC
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About Zurich
Home to roughly 402,762 residents, Zurich is a compact city in Switzerland. The city sits at 408 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
Zurich keeps time on the Europe/Zurich IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. Sun behaviour here follows the temperate pattern of the northern hemisphere, with the steepest seasonal day-length swings around the equinoxes.
Locally, prices are quoted in CHF and the international dialing code is +41. Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent Zurich's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in Zurich
The current local time in Zurich, Switzerland is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Zurich uses the IANA time zone Europe/Zurich, currently UTC+1.
Whether Zurich 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.
Zurich is currently 6 hours ahead of New York.
Zurich is currently 1 hour ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Zurich are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (47.3769, 8.5417).
Switzerland uses the CHF currency and the +41 international dialing code.
Zurich sits at 47.3769° N, 8.5417° E, 408 m above sea level, in Switzerland.