Indexed entity
Basel is the basel-CH record in Switzerland: country slug switzerland, city slug basel, ISO CH, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Zurich.
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Live local time
Basel, Switzerland
12:41:40 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Europe/Zurich
Quick answer
It is currently 12:41:40 PM (CEST, UTC+02:00) in Basel, Switzerland — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
17°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
33°C
18°C
Wed
32°C
15°C
Thu
30°C
16°C
In 60 days
Bundesfeier (Swiss National Day)
Sat, Aug 1, 2026
PublicIn 206 days
Fri, Dec 25, 2026
PublicIn 213 days
Fri, Jan 1, 2027
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Swiss Franc
1 USD = 0.7865 CHF
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
05:35 AM
Sunset
09:19 PM
Day length
15h 44m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Basel, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:41 AM UTC.
Current local time
12:41:40 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CEST
Europe/Zurich · UTC+02:00
Next holiday
Corpus Christi
Thursday, June 4, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Basel right now
Nearest airport
ZRH
Zürich Airport · 74 km
Indexed airports
1
Curated airport references available for Switzerland
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Basel, Switzerland.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 12:41 GMT+2
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Basel is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+02:00
Zone label
GMT+2
London
11:41 AM / -1h
Dubai
02:41 PM / +2h
Schedule risk
Corpus Christi on Thursday, June 4, 2026
Travel cue
ZRH Zurich, 74 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:35 AM to 09:19 PM, with solar noon around 01:27 PM and total daylight of 15h 44m.
Mapped location
47.56°N, 7.57°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:41 AM / -1h
Good live-call window with Basel right now.
New York
06:41 AM / -6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:41 AM / -9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:41 PM / +2h
Good live-call window with Basel right now.
Singapore
06:41 PM / +6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Basel.
ZRH · Zürich Airport
Zurich
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Europe/Zurich for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+02:00; seasonal offset, UTC+01:00 in January and UTC+02:00 in July.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Basel right now.
Check local interruptions
Corpus Christi on Thursday, June 4, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: ZRH Zurich, 74 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
Next detected clock change: October 25, 2026, moving back from 2026-10-25 02:59 (GMT+2) to 2026-10-25 02:00 (GMT+1).
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Basel has a detected clock-change edge. Re-check recurring meetings within two weeks of October 25, 2026, especially if the other city does not change clocks on the same weekend.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Basel.
Canonical route
/time/switzerland/basel/
Catalog identity
basel-CH · CH · Europe
Coordinate cell
47.56°N, 7.57°E · lat 47.558 · lon 7.573 · cell 4756:757
Population record
177,595 residents · country rank 2
Zone snapshot
Europe/Zurich · GMT+2 · UTC+02:00
January / July offsets
UTC+01:00 / UTC+02:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Lausanne, Switzerland · 136 km
Nearest world hub
London · 708 km
Closest airport references
ZRH Zurich 74 km
Zone peer roster
Genève, Switzerland · Lausanne, Switzerland · Zürich, Switzerland
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Basel: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Basel is the basel-CH record in Switzerland: country slug switzerland, city slug basel, ISO CH, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Zurich.
47.56°N, 7.57°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 47 and longitude band 7; exact decimal pair 47.55839, 7.57327.
Switzerland: official name Swiss Confederation; capital Bern; region Europe; subregion Western Europe; country population 9,082,848; area 41,284 km²; languages French, Swiss German, Italian, Romansh; currencies CHF Swiss franc. This is the country layer behind the Basel clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Switzerland: Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located at the intersection of Central, Western, and Southern Europe. It is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Austria and Liechtenstein to the east, and Italy to the south. Switzerland is geographically divided among the Swiss Alps, the Swiss Plateau, and the Jura Mountains; the Alps cover most of the country's territory, whereas the majority of its 9 million people are concentrated on the plateau, which hosts many of the largest cities and economic centres, including Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Bern, Lausanne, Winterthur, and Lucerne. Source: Wikipedia.
Lausanne [lausanne-CH, CH, Europe/Zurich, 136 km]; Vaduz [vaduz-LI, LI, Europe/Vaduz, 154 km]; Genève [geneve-CH, CH, Europe/Zurich, 186 km]; Dudelange [dudelange-LU, LU, Europe/Luxembourg, 240 km]; Esch-sur-Alzette [esch-sur-alzette-LU, LU, Europe/Luxembourg, 245 km]; Luxembourg [luxembourg-LU, LU, Europe/Luxembourg, 252 km]; Milan [milan-IT, IT, Europe/Rome, 264 km]; Turin [turin-IT, IT, Europe/Rome, 277 km]
Basel is part of this indexed country cluster: Genève [geneve-CH, Europe/Zurich, pop 201,741]; Basel [basel-CH, Europe/Zurich, pop 177,595]; Lausanne [lausanne-CH, Europe/Zurich, pop 139,111]; Zürich [zurich-CH, Europe/Zurich].
London 708 km; Dubai 4,838 km; New York 6,249 km; Los Angeles 9,459 km; São Paulo 9,581 km; Tokyo 9,606 km; Singapore 10,364 km; Sydney 16,634 km
ZRH Zürich Airport in Zurich [CH, 74 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include ZRH Zürich Airport in Zurich [CH].
Basel renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:41 GMT+2; GMT+2 at UTC+02:00; January UTC+01:00; July UTC+02:00; next holiday Corpus Christi on 2026-06-04.
This evidence pack is what keeps smaller city pages from reading like timezone templates: concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Basel.
Basel is a context-and-reference city; rank #2 of 4 retained Switzerland city pages. The route is /time/switzerland/basel/ and the city id is basel-CH.
Basel has 15 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Basel is pinned at 47.56°N, 7.57°E; Lausanne (136 km); London (708 km).
Europe/Zurich resolves to seasonal offset split: UTC+01:00 in January and UTC+02:00 in July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Switzerland.
ZRH Zürich Airport (74 km) · Corpus Christi (Thursday, June 4, 2026) · 1 country airport reference · 33 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Basel uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Basel: Basel, also known as Basle, is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third most populous city, with 177,595 inhabitants within the city municipality limits.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC+01:00 and summer UTC+02:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone Europe/Zurich.
Basel is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 7.57°, Basel's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 30 minutes after civil 12:00 under the sampled +02:00 civil offset; during the alternate seasonal offset this shifts by about one hour on the clock — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Basel sits at 47.56°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 46 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 14 minutes on the December solstice.
Basel sits at 47.56°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 46 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 14 minutes on the December solstice.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Jun 19 (15h 59m)
Shortest day
Dec 18 (8h 26m)
Year-round average
12h 15m
Annual swing
7h 33m
See the full daylight curve for Basel at /sun/basel/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Basel local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Basel |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 15:00 - 23:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 07:00 - 15:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 05:30 - 13:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 03:00 - 11:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 03:00 - 11:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 02:00 - 10:00 |
Public holidays in 2026
33
Reference fields include Basel's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 12:41:40 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Basel (UTC+02:00, CEST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:35 AM to 09:19 PM
Day length 15h 44m · Solar noon 01:27 PM
Next country holiday
Corpus Christi
Thursday, June 4, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Basel local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
IFA Berlin 2026
keynoteFriday, September 4, 2026
94 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
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187 days to go
Mobile World Congress 2027
keynoteMonday, March 1, 2027
272 days to go
Xbox Games Showcase 2026
keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
Code with Claude Tokyo 2026
keynoteWednesday, June 10, 2026
8 days to go
Population
177.6K
Coordinates
47.56, 7.57
Timezone
Europe/Zurich
Indexed airports
1
Capital
Bern
Languages
French, Swiss German
Currency
CHF (Fr.)
Country area
41,284 km²
Basel, Switzerland (population rank #2 in this dataset). Time zone: Europe/Zurich (CEST, UTC+02:00); population ~177.6K.
Coordinates: 47.56°N, 7.57°E. Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, ~5279 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:35 AM and sets around 09:19 PM in Basel — about 15h 44m of daylight. Switzerland observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Lausanne (136 km from Basel) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Switzerland.
Next national holiday: Corpus Christi, 2026-06-04.
Basel is indexed as a Europe city in the CH country record, using Europe/Zurich as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/switzerland/basel/.
Location context: 47.56°N, 7.57°E; population 177,595; nearest indexed city Lausanne is about 136 km away; closest reference hub is London, about 708 km away.
Country planning context: capital Bern; subregion Western Europe; languages French, Swiss German, Italian, Romansh; currency CHF (Fr.); area 41,284 km²; 1 curated airport references; next holiday Corpus Christi on 2026-06-04.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC+01:00 and summer UTC+02:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone Europe/Zurich.
Basel is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 7.57°, Basel's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 30 minutes after civil 12:00 under the sampled +02:00 civil offset; during the alternate seasonal offset this shifts by about one hour on the clock — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Basel sits at 47.56°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 46 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 14 minutes on the December solstice.
Mid-sized city with around 178 thousand residents — busy enough to keep regular international business hours, small enough to retain a regional character. (Basel city-proper figure.)
Related clock anchors for Basel: Genève (same time), San Francisco (−9h), Los Angeles (−9h), Paris (same time), London (−1h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
switzerland
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
CEST
IANA Zone
Europe/Zurich
UTC Offset
UTC+02:00
DST Status
Observing DST
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
London
-1h
New York
-6h
Los Angeles
-9h
Dubai
+2h
Singapore
+6h
Tokyo
+7h
Sydney
+8h
São Paulo
-5h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Basel.
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City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Basel: closest hubs London (~708 km), Dubai (~4,838 km), New York (~6,249 km); farthest indexed hub Sydney (~16,634 km).
Basel sits inside Switzerland — the Western Europe subregion, capital Bern, languages French, Swiss German, Italian, currency CHF (Fr.).
Closest indexed cities to Basel: Lausanne (136 km), Vaduz (154 km), Genève (186 km), Dudelange (240 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Basel: Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Switzerland.
Closest curated airport references from Basel: ZRH Zurich (74 km).
Zürich AirportZRH
Zurich · 74 km from Basel
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 51m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
2 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:41 AM | -1h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:41 AM | -6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:41 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:41 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:41 PM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:41 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:41 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:41 AM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
Basel is in the Europe/Zurich timezone (CEST), with a UTC offset of +02:00.
Basel uses seasonal daylight saving rules in Europe/Zurich. The current offset is UTC+02:00; January resolves to UTC+01:00 and July resolves to UTC+02:00.
The current UTC offset for Basel is UTC+02:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Basel, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 12:41 GMT+2. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Basel sits at 47.56°N, 7.57°E in Switzerland, with about 177.6K residents (rank #2 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Basel is London, about 708 km away as the crow flies.
Lausanne is the closest indexed city, roughly 136 km from Basel.
Zürich Airport (ZRH) is the closest curated airport reference, about 74 km from Basel.
Corpus Christi is the next upcoming holiday in Switzerland, on Thursday, June 4, 2026.
Basel uses Swiss franc (CHF, symbol Fr.) as the local currency of Switzerland.
The longest day of 2026 in Basel falls on Jun 19 with about 15h 59m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 18 with 8h 26m; the year-round average is 12h 15m.
In Basel local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 15:00-23:00; London 10:00-18:00; Frankfurt 09:00-17:00; Dubai 07:00-15:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.