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Time in Basel, Switzerland now

12:20:43AM

Sunday, October 26, 2025

Basel switches to standard time at 03:00AM on Sunday, October 26. The time is set one hour back.
Sun: ↑ 07:03AM ↓ 05:24PM (10h 20m) - More info - Make Basel time default - Add to favorite locations

Time zone info for Basel

UTC +2

Central European Summer Time (CEST)
now 6 hours ahead of New York

From 26 October 2025: UTC +1 / Central European Time (CET)
The time in Basel is normally 6 hours ahead of the time in New York, but because these time zones don't share the same start and end times for daylight saving time, the time in Basel can for a short while be 5 hours ahead of the time in New York.
The IANA time zone identifier for Basel is Europe/Zurich.

Sunday March 30 2025

Latest change: Summer time started

Switched to UTC +2 / Central European Summer Time (CEST).
The time was set forward one hour from 02:00AM to 03:00AM local time.

Sunday October 26 2025

Next change: Winter time starts

Switching to UTC +1 / Central European Time (CET).
The time will be set back one hour from 03:00AM to 02:00AM local time.

Time difference
from Basel

Los Angeles	−9 hours	−9 hours
Chicago	−7 hours	−7 hours
New York	−6 hours	−6 hours
Toronto	−6 hours	−6 hours
São Paulo	−5 hours	−5 hours
UTC	−2 hours	−2 hours
Lagos	−1 hours	−1 hours
London	−1 hours	−1 hours
Johannesburg	0
Paris	0
Zurich	0
Cairo	+1 hours
Istanbul	+1 hours
Moscow	+1 hours
Dubai	+2 hours
Mumbai	+3.5 hours
Hong Kong	+6 hours
Shanghai	+6 hours
Singapore	+6 hours
Tokyo	+7 hours
Sydney	+9 hours

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Sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time for Basel

Sunrise: 07:03AM
Sunset: 05:24PM
Day length: 10h 20m
Solar noon: 12:14PM
The current local time in Basel is 74 minutes ahead of apparent solar time.

Basel on the map

Location: Switzerland
Latitude: 47.56. Longitude: 7.57
Population: 178,000

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Best restaurants in Basel

#1 HERITAGE Basel - European and vegetarian options food
#2 Cheval Blanc by Peter Knogl - European and french food
#3 Restaurant Stucki - Tanja Grandits - Swiss and vegetarian options food
#4 roots - European and central european food

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