Current time in Zurich

Switzerland · UTC+1/UTC+2

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Europe/Zurich

UTC offset

UTC+1/UTC+2

Daylight Saving

Yes — observed

Time zone ID

Europe/Zurich

Business hours

8:00 AM – 5:30 PM CET (Monday–Friday)

About Zurich's time zone

Zurich follows Central European Time (CET, UTC+1) in winter and CEST (UTC+2) in summer. As the world's leading global financial center for private banking and wealth management, Zurich's time zone is of critical importance to global finance. The Swiss Exchange (SIX) opens at 9:00 AM CET. Zurich is 1 hour ahead of London, 6 hours ahead of New York, and 7 hours behind Tokyo.

Best time to call Zurich

Calling from	Recommended window
New York	9:00 AM – 6:00 PM ET (3:00 PM–midnight CET)
London	8:00 AM – 5:00 PM GMT
Dubai	12:00 PM – 9:00 PM GST
Singapore	4:00 PM – 1:00 AM SGT

Did you know? Switzerland is famous for its precision watchmaking, and Swiss time is taken extremely seriously. Swiss trains are renowned for operating to the second — the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) sets its official clock to within 1 second of UTC. Swiss watches are set to a signal from Berne, which receives the official Swiss time standard synchronized to atomic clocks.

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