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Time in Lucerne, Switzerland now

12:24:28PM

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Lucerne switched to standard time at 03:00AM on Sunday, October 26. The time was set one hour back.
Sun: ↑ 07:02AM ↓ 05:19PM (10h 16m) - More info - Make Lucerne time default - Add to favorite locations

Time zone info for Lucerne

UTC +1

Central European Time (CET)
now 5 hours ahead of New York

From 29 March 2026: UTC +2 / Central European Summer Time (CEST)
The time in Lucerne 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 Lucerne can for a short while be 5 hours ahead of the time in New York.
The IANA time zone identifier for Lucerne is Europe/Zurich.

Sunday October 26 2025

Latest change: Winter time started

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

Sunday March 29 2026

Next change: Summer time starts

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

Time difference
from Lucerne

Los Angeles	−8 hours	−8 hours
Chicago	−6 hours	−6 hours
New York	−5 hours	−5 hours
Toronto	−5 hours	−5 hours
São Paulo	−4 hours	−4 hours
London	−1 hours	−1 hours
UTC	−1 hours	−1 hours
Lagos	0
Paris	0
Zurich	0
Johannesburg	+1 hours
Cairo	+2 hours
Istanbul	+2 hours
Moscow	+2 hours
Dubai	+3 hours
Mumbai	+4.5 hours
Hong Kong	+7 hours
Shanghai	+7 hours
Singapore	+7 hours
Tokyo	+8 hours
Sydney	+10 hours

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Sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time for Lucerne

Sunrise: 07:02AM
Sunset: 05:19PM
Day length: 10h 16m
Solar noon: 12:11PM
The current local time in Lucerne is 11 minutes ahead of apparent solar time.

Lucerne on the map

Location: Switzerland
Latitude: 47.050. Longitude: 8.306
Population: 83,000

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#4 Restaurant des Balances - Mediterranean and swiss food

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