| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −1h | |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | ±0h | |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | +2h | Becomes +3h on 25 Oct |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +7h | Becomes +8h on 25 Oct |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +8h | Becomes +9h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −6h | Becomes −5h on 24 Oct |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −9h | Becomes −8h on 24 Oct |
Lucerne, Switzerland runs on UTC+2. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+1 in winter, UTC+2 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. The time difference between Lucerne and New York is 6 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 15:00–18:00 in Lucerne lines up with 09:00–12:00 in New York. The time difference between Lucerne and London is 1 hour. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 8 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 10:00–18:00 in Lucerne lines up with 09:00–17:00 in London. The time difference between Lucerne and Tokyo is 7 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–11:00 in Lucerne lines up with 16:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Lucerne.
Lucerne (Switzerland) is home to roughly 82K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:24, sunset at 19:09. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC+1 in winter, UTC+2 in summer. Next change: 25 Oct. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 47° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Switzerland
Capital
Bern
Continent
Europe
Time Zone
UTC+2 · Europe/Zurich
Coordinates
47.05°N, 8.31°E
Currency
CHF (CHF)
Calling Code
+41
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
German, French, Italian
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Kapellbrücke was built around 1365 and is the oldest surviving covered wooden bridge in Europe. A 1993 fire destroyed most of it and around two-thirds of the 17th-century paintings inside; it was rebuilt within a year.
The clock: Lucerne keeps UTC+1. Mount Pilatus nearby has the steepest cogwheel railway in the world, at a maximum gradient of 48%.
Lucerne lies at 8.3°E. Its time zone, UTC+1, is built around the 15°E meridian. The 6.7° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 27 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:27 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 87 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:27.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 54m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 30m. The swing between them is 7h 24m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Lucerne the sun comes up earliest on 17 June at 05:31, while the latest sunset waits until 27 June at 21:26. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Lucerne that civil twilight runs about 30 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 40 minutes at the solstice.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Lucerne, Switzerland is Europe/Zurich with a current UTC offset of UTC+2.
Lucerne has an estimated population of 82K and is located at coordinates 47.05°N, 8.31°E.
Lucerne gets 15h 54m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 30m on its shortest, averaging 12h 14m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Lucerne falls at about 12:27 on UTC+1 standard time, because the city sits 6.7° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Europe's Oldest Covered Wooden Bridge: The Kapellbrücke was built around 1365 and is the oldest surviving covered wooden bridge in Europe.