Current Time in Lausanne, Switzerland — CEST.

Indexed entity

Lausanne is the lausanne-CH record in Switzerland: country slug switzerland, city slug lausanne, ISO CH, continent Europe, canonical IANA zone Europe/Zurich.

Coordinate fingerprint

46.52°N, 6.63°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 46 and longitude band 6; exact decimal pair 46.51600, 6.63282.

Country dossier

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 Lausanne clock, not a generic timezone-only record.

Switzerland reference backdrop

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.

Nearest mapped city vector

Genève [geneve-CH, CH, Europe/Zurich, 51 km]; Basel [basel-CH, CH, Europe/Zurich, 136 km]; Lyon [lyon-FR, FR, Europe/Paris, 162 km]; Turin [turin-IT, IT, Europe/Rome, 180 km]; Milan [milan-IT, IT, Europe/Rome, 230 km]; Vaduz [vaduz-LI, LI, Europe/Vaduz, 230 km]; Monte-Carlo [monte-carlo-MC, MC, Europe/Monaco, 315 km]; Monaco [monaco-MC, MC, Europe/Monaco, 315 km]

Switzerland city roster

Lausanne 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].

World hub distance vector

London 742 km; Dubai 4,883 km; New York 6,235 km; São Paulo 9,450 km; Los Angeles 9,496 km; Tokyo 9,741 km; Singapore 10,447 km; Sydney 16,730 km

Airport references near this city

ZRH Zürich Airport in Zurich [CH, 179 km]

Switzerland airport roster

Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include ZRH Zürich Airport in Zurich [CH].

Calendar and offset context

Lausanne renders Jun 2, 2026 · 12:43 GMT+2; GMT+2 at UTC+02:00; January UTC+01:00; July UTC+02:00; next holiday Corpus Christi on 2026-06-04.

Lausanne is a context-and-reference city; rank #3 of 4 retained Switzerland city pages. The route is /time/switzerland/lausanne/ and the city id is lausanne-CH.

Lausanne 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.

Lausanne is pinned at 46.52°N, 6.63°E; Genève (51 km); London (742 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 (179 km) · Corpus Christi (Thursday, June 4, 2026) · 1 country airport reference · 33 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.

Lausanne 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.

Lausanne

Lausanne: Lausanne is the capital and largest city of the Swiss French-speaking canton of Vaud, in Switzerland. The Olympic capital, it is a hilly city situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, about halfway between the Jura Mountains and the Alps, and facing the French town of Évian-les-Bains across the lake. Lausanne is located 51.7 kilometres northeast of Geneva, the nearest major city. The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland convenes in Lausanne, although it is not the de jure capital of the nation.

Local clock note

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.

Local clock note

Lausanne is listed in the dataset snapshot as 2 hours ahead of UTC (offset +02:00). 1 hour ahead of London, 7 hours behind Tokyo.

Local clock note

Geographically at longitude 6.63°, Lausanne's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 33 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.

Local clock note

Lausanne sits at 46.52°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 38 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 22 minutes on the December solstice.

Local clock note

Lausanne sits at 46.52°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 38 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 22 minutes on the December solstice.